Posted on March 5, 2008 by mrsvierkant
My playdough eater in my afternoon class.
On Monday this student ate playdough, off the floor, again, for the bazillionth time. **sigh** And I said, again, for the bazillionth and a half time,”don’t eat the playdough off the floor, it can make you sick.” This student had the nerve to continue to eat the playdough while I [...]
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Posted on February 29, 2008 by mrsvierkant
UGH! I’m sick. With what, I don’t know. But I feel like crud. Total and complete crud. I made it through work today, because I wasn’t feeling too awful this morning. But now I want to crawl under my blankets and remain there until spring or until I feel better. Whichever comes first.
So I’ll try [...]
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Posted on January 28, 2008 by mrsvierkant
Just consider this part two of yesterday’s blog.
I think it was 4 years ago I had a student who liked to wipe her runny nose on just about anything, and it started to include the teachers’ shirts. At first we didn’t realize what she was doing, but we caught on very quickly. Then the fateful [...]
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Posted on January 27, 2008 by mrsvierkant
This is an accurate description of my classroom given to me by a nurse. Really, it is. I went almost 8 years without a case of strep throat and then I started teaching, and now I get it just about every winter. It’s making the rounds in my classroom right now. So far it’s missed [...]
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