Spring = Crazy

I've heard that kids go crazy in the spring but I thought that it was a bit of an exaggeration. I can now contest that it is a real phenomenon!! My wonderful, beautiful kids have gone CRAZY!! Let me tell you about what happened today!!

I have a student in my class who is very smart and is usually very sweet but I must admit he loves attention. I look back at the sink where he is at and I watch him spout out water from his mouth into the garbage can as if he were a fountain. I asked him later why he did that and he lied, with a sparkle in his eye, and said that he was choking. I mentioned that I saw no coughing and he said, "I hold my coughs inside". Crazy!!

Later I saw this same boy flip off another boy in line - plain as day.

During math, we are doing math centers where they go to different areas and do different math skills: adding, subtracting, writing their numbers, and creating numbers with pipe cleaners (fuzzy sticks). Two of my sweet, mild mannered boys start fighting over one fuzzy stick. It didn't seem to matter to them that there was a whole bucket full of the sticks right in front of them. Again, crazy!

Maybe it's the growth spurts they're going through, maybe it's the 12 days of school left, who knows but my kids are a little nutty right now. I still love them and they are obviously very entertaining but they are giving me gray hairs.

On the 12 days left of school my kindergarteners gave to me:
12 Homework papers
11 Frowny faces
10 Coloring creations
9 Tattle tales
8 untied shoes
7 "I love you's"
6 Skinned up knees
5 Flower Weeds
4 songs to sing
3 hugs to give
2 beanbag chairs
And a gray hair that shouldn't be there!!