A Day in the Life

I think the title pretty much speaks for itself; this is what I deal with day to day. However, whenever I try to get my kids on video, they stop saying and doing hilarious things. It must be the presence of a camera that makes them get all shy and weird. This particular class is my Memory Giga class, which is kind of a mid-level English class. I have 6 boys, and they're all quite smart. They're intelligence doesn't stand out as much as their energy--to put it nicely. They're crazy. And they love to participate. They are my only class that I have to force to raise their hands because they are competing to respond. In every other class, I am practically begging them to say one word. With these boys, though, I ask a question and 6 hands shoot up immediately (sometimes before I even ask) and all I hear is the sound of many "Ooohh Oooh"s, as if the monkey call will lead me to choose them to receive the great honor of answering a question. I taped them during break. It captures some of their energy level, but not the true ridiculousness of their personalities. When I stopped taping I asked where one of the students, Martin, was, and my student Steve said "he's on the toilet poo-pooing something giant" (where he got 'poo-pooing' I do not know) and my other student, Kevin, said "he went to the hospital and died and now is in heaven." I kicked myself for turning the camera off prematurely



Steve 1 (I have two of them) is the one that's dancing and what not in the video. He got a little camera-happy I think. Steve 2, on the other hand, is covering his face the entire time. The hiding in sweatshirt hoodies occurs almost every time I try to take a picture of my kids.

A quick explanation: they called me Pikachu in the middle of it, in case if you picked up on that. My face gets red quite often for those of you who know me...sometimes because I'm embarrassed, nervous, mad, hot, sick, and many times for no reason at all. So when this occurs, my students call me Pikachu (the Pokemon character with the pink cheeks). This reference is used across the board with all my students. Face red....TEACHER, PIKACHU! without fail. This particular day I actually think I was just wearing blush, so they called me out on that.

This video made me realize just how much I say "alright" and "okay." I'm like a broken record.