BaD nEws TraVelEd iN 3s ToDAy

here are the examples:
three children cried in class and two before 9:00, over completely unrelated incidents!

three children had to sit out during music/movement class--one for not listening and the others for rough physical behavior. this meant those 3 kids lost 10 minutes off thier roof time.

three lunches (or parts of lunches) hit the floor today. my patience was gone when the little guy i watched play with his sandwich came over to tell me he couldn't eat it because the cheese hit the floor. all i could muster, "of course it did, you were flapping it around." then i handed over fresh cheese without further comment. oh, did you know dalton teachers serve students lunch in the classroom?

three parents have scheduling conflicts for parent-teacher conferences.

but on a more positive note, a lexi wrote me a story today. after she read it to the class, ravi said, "you look like you're going to cry." i wanted to, but i didn't.

i'm going to share it, even though it loses charm without the illustrations. before you read, know that lexi has a gift for language and has clearly been read to. she also has a little lisp, her "th" sounding like "f". (translations are in parentheses)

HOUS 42 by Lexi
hous 42 is varry nic sumtims wee fit but wee oes git along (house 42 is very nice. sometimes we fight but we also get along.) it is varry nics to be in hous 42. sumtims wee r sada and sumtims we r happy and then we git mor happy. ar hous is in dalton. you mit not now dat it is upton (our house in in dalton. you might not know that it is uptown.) dalton is a varry god scohlo (good school). i love it erka and treaka r varry god tickers we do varry god fing (dalton is a very good school. i love it. erica and tarika are very good teachers. we do very good things.) we r all alick...but dirfrint (we are all alike but different). blond hair, borin hair, sum av as hav stapmom sum av as dont (some of us have stepmoms, some of us don't.) Isabel doz lucy dozzent (Isabel dose, Lucy doesn't.) Sum av as r goin to cimp sum av as r not (some of us are going to camp, some of us are not.) ths is varry spsal to as sum av as hav brodrs or sisders (this is very special to us, some of us have brothers or sisters.) ClAiRE and lexi dont...but we can live wif fit (we can live with it.--oh).

on the alternate page from her text were pictures of kids in class...with statments like, "eeshan is from indea", "gaby favrit food is bigits (bagettes)", and jaden has glesis (glasses)".

yep this makes me want to go to work tomorrow. thanks lexi!