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Hope everyone had a happy holiday! :)

*Wink*

Today was our annual Holiday Party.  Jason, Amy, Meredith and I were out in the hallway getting things set up as students were coming into homerooms.  Once girl from another homeroom came out to go to the bathroom.

"Hattie!" Jason yelled, as per his usual greeting.

"Hey, gorgeous," was Hattie's reply.  Not quite what we were expecting.

Whales Blow

I had my students working in centers a couple of days ago.  Hattie was working on a center of Main Idea and Supporting Details.  Her main idea was "Whales blow."  She did have supporting details to go with it though.  Some of those were: "Whales can be identified by the size of their blows." "Right Whales make 2 low blows with their twin blow wholes." "The sperm whale makes a blow that is angled forward." :)

Mouth Filter

Some students are blessed with the ability to think before they speak.  Most, though, are not.  Molly overheard the following conversation between one of these non-filtered students, Herman, and another student, Hattie had been absent for several days.

"Why were you out so long?" Herman asked.
"I was sick," Hattie replied and continued on with her work.
Henry wasn't satisfied, "No, but how were you sick?"
Hattie thought for a moment, "I just didn't feel good."
Henry still wasn't satisfied, "Throwing up? Diarrhea? What?"
Hattie got very red and went back to her work.
"Come on. What did you have?" Herman continued.

At this point, Molly stepped in and explained that, although she was glad he was worried about the health of his fellow student, it wasn't appropriate to ask anyone those questions.  He apologized for being "too intrusive".

Total Eclipse of the Heart

Tonight is the first winter solstice lunar eclipse in centuries.  Currently, my students are talking about the moon and its phases in science class.  One of my students was very excited when he came over to see me after science.

"Did you know there's a lunar eclipse tonight?" Herman asked me, "The moon will be red and everything."

"What makes it red?" I asked him.

"I don't know.  It must be embarassed 'cause everyone's looking at it or something." he replied.

Oh Canada!

Today we were making a video to send to our Canadian ePals.  We had written the scripts and practiced on previous days to be ready for today's shoot.  I tod them to get what they needed because we were ready to head to our locations.

"Wait!" Henrietta shouted, "I have to go the bathroom and fix my hair.  I can't have people in Canada thinking I look like this! I'm representing America."

Truth about Pregnancy

Molly's student, Herman, just became a big brother.  "Do you know it hurts really bad?" he asked her upon returning to school, "Like really, really bad?"
"Oh really?" was her response.
"Yeah," he said, "You guys [meaning women] can keep doing that for a while.  We [men] don't want it."