A day in the life of a teacher

So I guess you could call today "one of those days"

It wasn't a terrible day, per se.... it was actually a generally good day for some part.

{I mostly just wanted to come home and write about the "bad parts" of the day so I can look back and laugh} :) 

The things that I had the hardest time with today were:

the whining...

the complaining...

the tattle-telling...

the "do we have to?"'s

the "my ________ hurts'"

over and over and over.........

Seriously, these are many of the questions, comments, and complaints I heard today...

{names are changed for privacy}

"My elbow hurts" .... "I saw Sam push Dan" .... "My hand hurts when I write" .... "I don't know if this is tattle-telling, but... John and Ellie are talking"  .... "My head hurts from thinking so hard"....  "I think I'm allergic to someone in here" .... "Do we HAVE to write right now? Can't we draw?" ....  "Can I go to the bathroom?" (literally right after they come in from recess, nonetheless)....   "Sally and Sue are being mean to me"....   "Dave bumped me"  ....   "But I don't want to" .... "It's too loud in here, I can't concentrate" (believe me, I know.) ..... "Where do we turn this in?" (after directions were given) .... "What are we supposed to do when we're done?" (after directions were given) ..... "What are we supposed to do on this assignment?" (after directions were given AND directions written on paper)

Now, just to to clarify, I don't consider myself a careless teacher, and I did my best to take care of the "real problems" when kids were actually hurting or down.  But it just seemed like SO much today.

Hence, you can see why I was losing a little of my patience by the end of the day... :) 

I texted (vented) to my mom and hubby at the end of the day, and my hubby offered to take me on vacation :) 

 and my mom said her kids (first grade) were the same way... {must be the weather? the season?}  then she assured me that this isn't the end of it...from now until Christmas it's gonna be pretty crazy.

Oh joy. 

On the other hand...

I do have a VERY sweet class, in fact, I saw this being passed around the class today to be signed...

the birthday girl just recently had a tragedy in the family, and the kids have been SO supportive and caring to her, and have been showering her with love and friendship especially today, on her birthday.

I even helped the class a little and asked her to come to my desk for something 

to "distract" her while the students around her signed it ;)

And I love being their teacher.  We have a ton of fun and laughs throughout the day as well.

 BUT some days........ some kids.......... ;)