You will learn, or we will all die trying
You know how Ginny yells "ZIP IT!" in DH part1?
I totally did that today.
The kid who spent the first two weeks not at school because he was out of town (great timing mum) was back. Aye Carumba. *headdesk* I kinda, sorta just wish he stayed away ...
He's already gottne into 2 fist fights. One of which I had to pull another child off of him. So I hurt my wrist breaking up the first fight, had to send two kids to the office for first aid for the second fight, was at school until 7:45pm on Tuesday, stayed up until 1:30am last night finishing my Term One overview and spent the evening making heart shaped biscuits for class tommorrow afternoon.
We had a semi-successful Literacy Block rotation today. It's where the kids rotate activities every 20 minutes and we *should* be able to do it independently ... let's just say - we have a little way to go! But we've been working on it all week and hopefully soon those 20 minute blocks will be very productive.
He Who Would Be Aphla Male is back tomorrow. I sincerely hope he doesn't throw He Who Beats Up Others even further off the tracks. Mr Bad Attitude is heading for a phonecall home (now that I finally have his mother's number) "Where's your contact information update and consent forms?" *shrug* "I need more communication." *grunt* (I thought the kid was only 10 - what's with the 16yo 'tude')
He's my next Serious Case. You WILL change your attitude or you WILL find yourself doing worksheets in the office all day. We still haven't had teacher aides assigned. It's the end of week three. I have NEP (Negotiated Education Plan) kids who need one-on-one desperately and I'm still trying to make sure their needs are met while making sure the fists don't fly.
I can't do it. They are too high needs. One is so completely behind he is not only completely refusing to do anything but he appears to be unable to read completely. He's in Year 6, is turning 12 soon and reads like a pre-schooler - if he reads at all. He only writes something if he is copying it - and sometimes not even then. He needs more one-on-one than an hour or so for Literacy but at this point, I would take ANYTHING.
Another is an aboriginal kid with a brother in jail, no dad and a mum who we can't call because we think she may have hocked the phone again ... he refuses to do any work unless I am standing over him. One refuses to do any work and keeps swinging on his chair so I would give him four steps and send him to Buddy Class.
I keep taking his chair away.
One is more emotional than a teenage girl and also seems to have a magnetic with it's opposing pole attached to his desk. he got stroppy and left the room to sulk today when I said he had to do reading before he could do drawing. These kids are all year 6. They are in their seventh year of school. They are approaching 12 years old.
And for the last two days I have confiscated matchbox cars by the truckload.
They get them out and deliberately drive them across the table while I am talking. So I take them away, so they get out the next one. They never resist handing over the car. It's weird.
(It's also weird they still have matchbox cars at an age I thought they would have grown out of them - but don't tell them I said that ...)
Indeed my class is challenging.
Next Door is worse. I seriously think Marshmallow Woman is losing it. I heard he screeching today in the corridoor "I'm getting tired of this!" and then her voice faded away but I'm 99.99999% sure she was calling out to the Year 7 girls next door who keep leaving the room when the teacher's back is turned and then spend the next hour or whatever hiding from teachers as the building is searched. they are so childish and pathetic but they think they are just so cool and they are rude, nasty and mean and ignore all instructions, run in the hallways, wrack off to the toilet for ages withotu permission and generally be obnoxious.
They have made their teacher cry. I wish I had some answers for her but since they made me cry (well the ringleader did) last year I had nothing. But Ms Room6 is just happy to know she's not the only one who ObnoxiousGirl made cry ...
So Marshmallow Woman is stressed out of her mind with that and some other issues. The pyromaniac is still at large, one of my kids wagged today and was finally hauled in by his mother right before lunch, someone upstairs absconded before school and the kids in Special Class have started to bite.
I think the place is a madhouse right now!
But the Teacher-Librarian said I'm doing very well and she's seen me with the kids in my class and I have a good relationship with them :D . It's slow going - but apparently it is going!
Valentine cookies tomorrow! woot! (I know we are a few days late but Monday isn't a good cooking day! :P )
I totally did that today.
The kid who spent the first two weeks not at school because he was out of town (great timing mum) was back. Aye Carumba. *headdesk* I kinda, sorta just wish he stayed away ...
He's already gottne into 2 fist fights. One of which I had to pull another child off of him. So I hurt my wrist breaking up the first fight, had to send two kids to the office for first aid for the second fight, was at school until 7:45pm on Tuesday, stayed up until 1:30am last night finishing my Term One overview and spent the evening making heart shaped biscuits for class tommorrow afternoon.
We had a semi-successful Literacy Block rotation today. It's where the kids rotate activities every 20 minutes and we *should* be able to do it independently ... let's just say - we have a little way to go! But we've been working on it all week and hopefully soon those 20 minute blocks will be very productive.
He Who Would Be Aphla Male is back tomorrow. I sincerely hope he doesn't throw He Who Beats Up Others even further off the tracks. Mr Bad Attitude is heading for a phonecall home (now that I finally have his mother's number) "Where's your contact information update and consent forms?" *shrug* "I need more communication." *grunt* (I thought the kid was only 10 - what's with the 16yo 'tude')
He's my next Serious Case. You WILL change your attitude or you WILL find yourself doing worksheets in the office all day. We still haven't had teacher aides assigned. It's the end of week three. I have NEP (Negotiated Education Plan) kids who need one-on-one desperately and I'm still trying to make sure their needs are met while making sure the fists don't fly.
I can't do it. They are too high needs. One is so completely behind he is not only completely refusing to do anything but he appears to be unable to read completely. He's in Year 6, is turning 12 soon and reads like a pre-schooler - if he reads at all. He only writes something if he is copying it - and sometimes not even then. He needs more one-on-one than an hour or so for Literacy but at this point, I would take ANYTHING.
Another is an aboriginal kid with a brother in jail, no dad and a mum who we can't call because we think she may have hocked the phone again ... he refuses to do any work unless I am standing over him. One refuses to do any work and keeps swinging on his chair so I would give him four steps and send him to Buddy Class.
I keep taking his chair away.
One is more emotional than a teenage girl and also seems to have a magnetic with it's opposing pole attached to his desk. he got stroppy and left the room to sulk today when I said he had to do reading before he could do drawing. These kids are all year 6. They are in their seventh year of school. They are approaching 12 years old.
And for the last two days I have confiscated matchbox cars by the truckload.
They get them out and deliberately drive them across the table while I am talking. So I take them away, so they get out the next one. They never resist handing over the car. It's weird.
(It's also weird they still have matchbox cars at an age I thought they would have grown out of them - but don't tell them I said that ...)
Indeed my class is challenging.
Next Door is worse. I seriously think Marshmallow Woman is losing it. I heard he screeching today in the corridoor "I'm getting tired of this!" and then her voice faded away but I'm 99.99999% sure she was calling out to the Year 7 girls next door who keep leaving the room when the teacher's back is turned and then spend the next hour or whatever hiding from teachers as the building is searched. they are so childish and pathetic but they think they are just so cool and they are rude, nasty and mean and ignore all instructions, run in the hallways, wrack off to the toilet for ages withotu permission and generally be obnoxious.
They have made their teacher cry. I wish I had some answers for her but since they made me cry (well the ringleader did) last year I had nothing. But Ms Room6 is just happy to know she's not the only one who ObnoxiousGirl made cry ...
So Marshmallow Woman is stressed out of her mind with that and some other issues. The pyromaniac is still at large, one of my kids wagged today and was finally hauled in by his mother right before lunch, someone upstairs absconded before school and the kids in Special Class have started to bite.
I think the place is a madhouse right now!
But the Teacher-Librarian said I'm doing very well and she's seen me with the kids in my class and I have a good relationship with them :D . It's slow going - but apparently it is going!
Valentine cookies tomorrow! woot! (I know we are a few days late but Monday isn't a good cooking day! :P )