Every Day's an Adventure

To quote one of my favorite movies, "Adventure is out there!" Some may have to look for adventure. For others, adventures simply come. I would say that in second grade, adventures simply just come.

My most eventful day this week was Thursday. Whoever planned the schedule for this day did a very poor job- it was make-up picture day, pajama day, and reflections assembly day. So, we had kids that came in normal clothes to get their pictures taken, and then they brought pajamas to change into afterwards. Not that this would ever cause chaos or confusion in a second grade class... 

So, pretty much, my kiddos were having a pretty fun day. Well, to add to the excitement, I decided to do and activity with M&Ms in math regarding odd and even numbers and making equations. I made it quite clear that they were not allowed to eat their M&Ms until they were told, so that wasn't much of an issue. The lesson went fairly smoothly and the kids seemed to have fun and understand it. (I later had a girl ask me if we were going to do math today, and I told her that the M&M activity was math. She said that it was so fun that she didn't even notice she was doing math. :)).

I finally let my kids eat their M&Ms while they finished their math and science work. I put on some Disney music to help them focus while they worked and to make things fun. I seriously turned my back for 2 seconds, and one of the boys in my class is standing backwards on his chair "dancing" (a.k.a. shaking it) and pulling his pajama pants down. Needless to say I had to stop him before his pants were all the way off. 

About 2 minutes later, I look at a different student, and he has a green M&M up his nose. I told him to get it out of his nose immediately (which he proceeded to do by pushing in his other nostril and forcefully blowing). I then told him to go throw it away and wash his hands. While he was washing his hands, a girl in my class came up to me and told me that he licked his hand before washing it. Yep. I am definitely teaching second graders going on preschoolers. 

I did have a good laugh about both of these afterwards though! I guess things like these spice up life, and you just have to learn to love the spices.

In closing, I would just like to leave a little joke that I came up with. I think it's quite funny, but I may be a little biased.

What does a minion dance at the ball?

A minionuet.