I am student teaching a room full of nose picking Capt. Trips carriers!

[Cheswick2.0]

I swear they are so cute, but I have been sick for two weeks and I finally had to start telling them they were grossing me out. What is it with first graders picking their noses and blowing spit bubbles?

Okay, they also hug me and tell me my chalk board writing is getting better. One little boy also tells me my stars are getting better when I say good job and draw one on his paper.... he says "and your stars are really improving Mrs W". Rofl

[dsc]

1. first grade

wow. I did a Kindergarden field trip today as a sub. I am very, very tired. Those lower grades are an amazing amount of work. You will also be a master printer when you get through. They always have problems with mine when I sub in a lower grade.

[Cheswick2.0]

2. Field Trips

Oh nooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

:hi:

[dsc]

3. You have to be very orgainized

Also I learned a good trick today with little kids. Have them hold each other's hands and one hold yours. They will do it and it is a god send.

[oneighty]

4. Bet those hugs

cause some other kinda sniffles when no one is watching, betcha!

180

[blondeatlast]

7. 180, you have a remarkable gift for seeing the

wonderful, simple things and helping us appreciate them. *sniffle*

:toast: to you and my pal Cheswick!

[Cheswick2.0]

9. you know it is a pity

but we even have to be paranoid about hugging kids these days.
But yes I do get the sniffles thinking about my last day. It is not for 5 weeks, but I kind of dread it.

Next semester I will be in a sixth grade classroom.

[ronzo]

5. Capt. Trips?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

11. Yeah, I was confused too

Glad to know I am not alone.

The kids sound like a blast. I miss mine being that little

[benfranklin1776]

13. From the Stand, a top notch book by Steven King

Its the name of the plague that destroys 99 percent of the world's population, otherwise known as the superflu. Sniffles and sneezes are its first symptoms..........

[Nlighten1]

14. I think it was speeled

Capt. Tripps though wasn't it?

[ronzo]

15. Ahhhhh...

and I love that book... his best, I'd say. Gotcha.

[cmd]

6. So, you are hanging out in the germ factory........

And it is one of the most exhausting jobs around. I hung up the chalk and erasers last June. Here are a few hints from the veteran.

1. Keep the disinfectant jel handy. Use it regularly.
2. When Jeremy's sleeves are too gross with boogers, just have him turn his shirt inside out.
3. Wash your hands often.
4. Don't touch the handrail by the stairs. Jeremy just used those steps.
5. Keep your lesson plans in order. You will need more sick days than the high school teachers.
6.Rejoice when Jeremy hugs you and says, "Teacher, you smell nice."
7. Wash your hands.

[Cheswick2.0]

8. thank you

I will be getting some disenfectant gel. My doctor told me yesterday that I would be sick for the first two years only.... thanks doc!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

10. But eventually you will have iron immunity

One of my teaching colleagues from fifteen years ago had a partner who was an elementary school teacher for forty years. After they both retired, they took a month-long group tour to China.

When they came back, they reported that everyone in the group got horrible respiratory infections (as I did when I went to China)--except for my former colleague's partner and the other retired elementary school teacher on the tour.

By the way, my mom used to teach kindergarten, and she told of kids who would pick their noses or suck their fingers and then run those same fingers around the rim of her thermos cup.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

12. Oy! That is sick.

But I do have to admit, after a stint working at Boot Camp, nothing got me sick. We had sickness from all over there, constantly. Once you were there a few months, nothing got you.
Except, maybe if I caught a recruit with their little booger-pickin' penis-handlin' meat hooks in my thermos cup.
THEN, it would be a BAAAAAAAAAAAAAD day for them. I got very creative with my mashings.
hehe

[ulysses]

16. :)

About a month into my current job, I inadvertently left my coffee cup (full of a fresh pour of coffee that I desperately needed at 8:15) on a student's desk. I turned around three or four minutes into the period to find said student perched over said coffee cup, eagerly waggling his tongue in the contents.

"Student Whose Name Shall Not Be Mentioned Here!" I all but shouted. "What are you doing?"

"I don't know", came the reply.

I suspect that I'm building an immune system to beat the band, but I *still* want that cup of coffee.