The Good, The Bad, and The Offensive

The good news: I only have 22 students now.

The bad news: These 22 students that I do have will not stop:

talking

getting up out of their seats

asking to get a drink

asking to go to the bathroom

asking when lunch is

touching each other

making weird noises

tapping their pencils on the table

talking while I'm talking

hurting each other's feelings

singing

asking me to tie their shoes

I told them today that they need to stop making so many weird noises because "it's going to make Miss Gagliardi into a crazy person."

Today I modeled how to draw a picture with lots of details in our writing journals. It looked like this: 

I'm obviously a really amazing artist.

As you can see, third from the right is my sister-in-law Kathy, who is pregnant. So I talked about that a little and about how excited I am to become an aunt. While the kids were drawing and writing about their own families, Nathan showed me that he also drew his mom with a belly like that. He said, "She's not pregnant, but her belly still looks like that. She's had three kids." 

And at the end of the day, Johnny came up to me, gently rubbed my belly, and asked if I was pregnant too. I said no, and Nissa added, "No, it just looks that way." 

Looks like someone needs to start working out again.