It helped that it was a Friday, we had study buddies, and there was an assembly - leaving very little time for actual teaching. (Less teaching time = less frustration that they're not listening while I'm teaching.)
It also helped that the following things happened:
Nathan somehow cut his gums or something, and kept complaining and needing water. While he was getting a drink out in the hall, he ran into another teacher and told her that his gums were "falling out." And he said, "If they do, I'm going to give them to the tooth fairy. She wants everything that comes out of your mouth."
My favorite little crier Kendal seems to be losing her emotional stability more each day. I had been talking all week about how today was going to be the first day of Fall. Well, I looked it up and turns out it's tomorrow, so I informed my class of this at morning meeting. And then Kendal burst into tears and said, "I'm going to miss my birthday!" Her birthday is next Saturday (same as me!), and during the Fall, and she somehow thought that maybe fall wasn't happening and so neither was her birthday?? I honestly wasn't understanding or following at all.
At the very end of the day she also had a full on meltdown because her name wasn't pulled out of the coupon box to win a prize from the treasure chest. She literally threw herself face-down on the floor sobbing, and stayed there for a few minutes. I can't help but find it kind of hilarious.
During our time with study buddies, Anna came up to me and asked, "Are red necks real?" I laughed, obviously, and said that they were. She said, "The boys said they're real and that they turn into monsters!" I had no response to that.
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