Just Sayin’

Norma Jean Riley has moved all four kittens to a yet-to-be-discovered location.  I have not had time to search for them, and frankly, I am getting a bit “over it.”  I don’t know who these cats think they are.

However, about a week ago, I had four dogs and ten cats all living on the main floor of my home.

And now I only have three dogs and three cats living on the main floor of my home.  Because I found new homes for one dog and two kittens.

It feels a bit more normal and I shall leave Norma and her kittens alone for awhile so I can act like I am not a crazy cat lady.

Update:  Rio and Mama Kitty are both getting fixed on Tuesday.  Let Operation “End the Kitten Madness” commence.

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My crazy life has become an asset to my teaching career.  I don’t have time to really “plan” and be “thoughtful” about what I am doing each day.  But I have a gigantic bank of entertaining resources to help keep little ones engaged and, you know, things just come together man.

Oh a whim, I decided to teach them “ee.”

And then we stumbled across the book “Sheep in a Jeep.”

So, we have been working on “ee” and “sh” in phonics AND THEN we read a nonfiction book on sheep.

And I don’t know why it took me so long to remember but I HAVE AN ACTUAL SHEEP AT MY HOUSE.

Face palm.

But I remembered and I conferred with Little Dude, who is the shepherd of the aforementioned sheep, and asked him if my first graders could come up with names and have a class vote on the name for the sheep and then we could learn about collecting data and graphing and all peoples will rise and call me blessed for being such a “with-it” teacher who managed to “plan” a unit around “sh” and “ee” and ACTUAL sheep.  Oh, and sprinkle a bit of math in there, too.  Because, winning.

Little Dude could not care less if we name his sheep.  Little Dude thinks the sheep is a boy.  Little Dude’s voice is getting deeper by the second and it’s like every night he gets stretched out and wakes up bigger than the day before.

So, yeah.  I am going to name a sheep with my first graders today.  And it will be magical.

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Abbie the dog loves David so very much.  She tries to act aloof about it, but we all know she is gaga.  If he walks by her, she pretends to be asleep, but her tail is pounding the ground and she looks like she is about to pee herself with sheer joy.  Yes, Reader.  David is a dreamboat and he has this affect on us gals.

If I hug David, as I am wont to do, being his wife and all, she gets uber jealous and barks at us to let us know that she, his TRUE LOVE, is right there.

On one of our camping trips, we were all standing around the campfire and were going to pray before the meal.

My father in law prefers it if we all hold hands for a prayer.  This put Abbie in a TIZZY and she stood and barked at David during the prayer because he was touching TWO people and not her.  And it was very disrespectful to the blessing and annoyed my father in law, but it is too hard to explain to him that a dog is in love with his son, so I just let him be annoyed and think we are raising heathen dogs who disrupt prayer.

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The boys have bad grades so we took their phones.  This infuriated them.

HD:  Mom and Dad just don’t get it.  They don’t know what it is like to be in school because the last time they were in school was 1972.

LD:  YEAH!

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David and I were not even twinkles in our parents’ eyes in 1972.

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Let us discuss two precious first grader stories, shall we?

1.  One of my boys is SO CUTE. His hair is always perfectly combed and he has a bit of a southern accent.  He is super serious all the time and melts my heart.  I was working with him in a small group one afternoon (online, of course) and we were going to play a rhyming game that involved clapping.  He looked very serious and said:

“My baby is sleeping.”

Which meant, his little sister was taking nap and he did not want to clap and wake her.

 

2.  The kids were supposed to write a story across three pages and share it with me in a video.  I needed this for an assessment.  I needed to see the text and hear their story.

I have this student and I am pretty sure that if he ruled the world, he would not be in online school.  But, I digress.

He gets a bit sassy with his videos and is always saying something like:

My name is Billy.  You already know that.

Yesterday’s video:

Hi.  My name is Billy.  Like normal.  I am not going to read this to you.  You are not in kindergarten, you can read it yourself.

So, I am going to have to email mom and ask for her to send me the writing somehow.

Fun Fact:  Mom was sitting right by him when he told me he would not read it to me.

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In closing, let us have an update on Auntie Datenut and the Facebook/Clothing saga.

To bring you up to speed:
1.  Auntie doesn’t understand Facebook.

2.  Kate posted something about being a clothing ambassador for a shop and thanked everyone for her support.  This means that IN THE FUTURE she might be wearing cute clothes for a shop and would appreciate our FUTURE support.

3.  Auntie went back through six years of clothing and commented her support for Kate’s clothing.

4.  I have not had time to connect with Auntie.  She is asleep the times I am awake and I am asleep the times she is awake and she has a cell phone, but she sends one text and then turns it off for like a week and it is just hard to connect with her, you know?

5.  Kate posted a collage of pictures of her and Auggie.  These pictures have nothing to do with her new gig as a clothing ambassador.

Auntie’s Comment:

Dearest Kate.  I love you to pieces and I want to support you and your clothes, but girl y’all gonna have to wear something more than torn jeans although they are tres chic.  Just sayin’.

Who will connect with Auntie and help her sort through this confusion?

Not it.

Just sayin’.

Happy Wednesday.