Blackout!

At about 9:00 this morning, we had a blackout. My classroom is an interior room, meaning that the one and only tiny window that I do have goes out to the hallway. Luckily the emergency light came on, but it only cast a small area of dim light in my room. Also luckily I had two parent volunteers in the room at the time. I tried to get the kids to sit still and listen to a story, but they seriously couldn't handle it. They were all holding hands and cuddling up next to each other because they were scared or something. Then someone declared that they needed to go to the bathroom, and then they ALL desperately needed to use the bathroom right that second. The girls' bathroom emergency light didn't come on, making it pitch black in there, so I sent one of the moms in with my phone to use as a flashlight. Eventually I decided to just take the kids outside (as did about half of the other teachers) for some early recess time. At 9:45 the lights came back on and I was honestly disappointed. I knew I couldn't get any teaching done with the lights out, but I was kind of hoping for our afternoon of meetings to be cancelled. Oh well.

During our (three and half hour) afternoon of meetings, we were looking over a writing prompt we had given our kids the week before. Reading first grade writing is a skill that I think I'm fairly good at, but sometimes I have absolutely no idea. Just take a look at this gem: 

The prompt was to "tell about a time when you were happy." Here is how I read this: "When I was a ??. A ?? is fun. Whenever to. In the past too. In the future." You really nailed it, Josh.