Crescent Heights Day 23

Today was superhero and princess day. The playground looked like Halloween. Ms. Sosie wanted to change the girls out of the puffy dresses, to prevent them from ripping their dresses on the bikes or tripping over themselves and getting hurt. Ms. Jodhi said we don't have enough aides to do that, so the girls cannot ride bikes, they have to find something else to do. Sophie was dressed as Rapunzel and had a headband made of braided blonde hair, with a long braid hanging off one side. Eliana wore her pink and yellow Pikachu dress and an Elsa hair clip with a long white blond braid. These two little blonde girls with their weaves.

After Ms. Sosie and I did bathroom duty, we came into the classroom. The kids were playing around, talking to me, asking me to sit with them. Mr. Wayne smiled and said they're only like this when I get here, they're different in the morning. I joked that they see me as an easy mark.

The kids weren't listening today. I felt like I yelled and was not effective. I had to start counting or bring in Ms. Jodhi. She'd swoop in and ask the children why they aren't listening to their teacher, why they're disrespecting me. It's so helpful, but I wonder if they don't see me as an authority or if it's just temperamental. It must be because they do it to Ms. Jodhi too on occasion, like when Samantha was sent to Ms. Alex for talking back. 

Ms. Jodhi told Emma not to go into her purse or go through her things every day for the past three days, maybe four. Ms. Jodhi says Emma's mom tells her she thinks it's cute and does not assert any authority. I told her I overheard Emma saying she hates her, Ms. Jodhi said that Emma's mom says Emma hits her at home. Prime example of lack of authority.

I had to separate Abigail from Emma after school. She wasn't listening, and she started crying at the table. Emma wanted to come to help her, but we had her stay put. Ms. Robinson came in, asking who's crying, she thought it was Sophie, and when she saw it was Abigail she took her to her room.

I learned today that the older classrooms (2 and 3) have double the kids we have in our room, 24 x 2 =48. Ms. Jodhi told the kids that they won't get the one-on-one attention in their new classrooms because there are so many kids. Then we heard Ms. Robinson yell to her class to stop crying. Ms. Jodhi laughed at the timing and told her class, "see you can't even cry with Ms. Robinson!"

Ms. Roberts asked me if I had kids, was married and my age, she reacted, "Oh you still have time! I have a 32 year old, a 20 year old and a grand baby on the way!" I like that much more than Ms. Nadia's suggestion of arranged marriage.

Ms. Jodhi asked me how to spell my name, and said that my name really fits my personality. Like a ray of light. I asked her about the spelling of her name, how it looks like Bodhi, and she said that her name is Buddhist, like Bodhi.