Sometimes I feel like I'm teaching 1st grade...

Today is the first full school days we've had in TWO WEEKS due to a combination of snow and the President's Day weekend break. Ridiculous...

I gave an amazing speech in the 8th grade this morning... yesterday I brought down a box of poster making supplied for them--construction paper, scissors, markers, crayons, and a brand new box of glue sticks--so that they could work on an assignment I gave them. I told them I would leave the supplies down there in the 8th grade room as long as they cleaned up whatever they used. Needless to say, when I got to class this morning, there were craft supplies all over the table and floor. My comments to them went something like this:

"I try to do something nice for you and let you use all of these supplies, and you show me no kindness in return by leaving stuff all over the place! [pause to bend over and pick up a cap-less glue stick from the floor, which I then shook at them for emphasis] THIS is why we can't have nice things!"



I never did find the cap to the glue stick.