" ms. singh, i like you...i dream about you"
- landon shirley
Why do you love JC girls?
"Hes so beautifullllll"
-tasheena and neala =)'
cyrell raises his arms straight up and then brings them together in the air..he waits for a second...and then he KICKS... ( it was a move off of Kung Fu Panda) the best moment of the day
"watch ms. singh" landon throws a crayon up in the air and then catches it. "what did you do"
"its MAGIC!!!!"
We were talking about what we like and what we don't like at school...i get to Drake :
"i don't like the giraffe"
(either referring to the blue giraffe in the class or the one with weird legs whose neck is broken..)
"i like micheal jackson" -orlan...still talking about what we like at school...
rinaldo (who is not in my class) gives the best hugs in my life. He was in my class for navajo and after he gave me a hug i said, "you give the best hugs ever!" landon overheard me and goes, "what about me...no i guess not.." awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
"we are going to color the best aren't we ms.singh" - landon awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
i heart kindergarten
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010
i wanted to add this to the prior post:
after we got done talking about what happened at home, i told my student to yell, " I AM SMART!!!!" and he DID!!!! i hope he truly believes it!!!! to make him feel better i then asked him what he wanted to do (play with me,draw, exc) . There was a snow man on the wall we were next to and he pointed to it....so we went back to class and he drew a snowman and cut it out! i hope that made him happy. i really do. to see tears down that boys face was the worst thing in the world for me- the worse freakin thing. how do you catch these things? how does a person know if a child is suffering at home?
=(
after we got done talking about what happened at home, i told my student to yell, " I AM SMART!!!!" and he DID!!!! i hope he truly believes it!!!! to make him feel better i then asked him what he wanted to do (play with me,draw, exc) . There was a snow man on the wall we were next to and he pointed to it....so we went back to class and he drew a snowman and cut it out! i hope that made him happy. i really do. to see tears down that boys face was the worst thing in the world for me- the worse freakin thing. how do you catch these things? how does a person know if a child is suffering at home?
=(
cyrell benally is my life:
1) I was fixing something on the carpet when out of nowhere a hand jets out in front of me...whose hand you ask??? CYRELL PRINCESS BENALLY! (it was a moment to be lived really...not so much read)
2) cyrell tells me he went to the zoo this weekend, when i asked him what he saw at the zoo he named a few animals but for the last one he turned around, stuck his but out at me and said, "the one that goes.... poooooooot on you" .....i just stared. he then said, "you know the one that is stinky!" i just stared again. i'm not sure if i figured out it was a skunk or if he ended up telling me- regardless this was the highest point of my day =o)
I LOVE YOU CYRELL !
an event which i was not expecting today...:
the child in my class who had been physically abused in the fall starting crying today (which is NOT normal for him) after my aid was harsh to him during math centers. i took him outside and asked him if what my aid said hurt his feelings...he said no...(i was surprised yet happy that he was responding to me) ..i then asked if someone at home made him feel upset....he nodded yes. this was the point, this was the freakin point
ARE YOU SERIOUS? ARE YOU STILL EMOTIONALLY AND/OR PHYSICALLY ABUSING YOUR CHILD???? WHAT THE FUCK MAN??? YOU DON'T DESERVE THE TITLE OF FATHER.
that is what i want to tell his dad. i then asked if his dad had hit him..thank the LORD he said no. I then asked if his dad got mad at him or called him stupid...this is when he nodded yes...
AGAIN WHAT THE FUCK MAN YOUR CHILD IS 5- BACK OFF!
my student frequently inverts his letters and numbers and i'm sure this is what frustrated his dad. and then my aid (as usual) became frustrated with him for not writing his numbers correctly..and that is what set him off. i knew something was wrong because when i asked him a question he just stared blankly into space...looking like he needed to let go of some pain he had been holding onto all day =( what the hell????????i want to take this child home and TAKE CARE OF HIM. let me raise him for the time i am here..because clearly the shit which is happening at home is not going to cut it. DON'T MESS WITH MY KID. i hate this for my student..i hate it. what do i do? do i confront mom? if i do, she will probably tell him to stop telling me anything that happens at home. do i go to the counselor who in the fall was wary of reporting the abuse case? who the crap do i go to???? its not fair damn it. life is not fair.
i love him. i don't want him to be scared of his family. i don't. i really don't.
1) I was fixing something on the carpet when out of nowhere a hand jets out in front of me...whose hand you ask??? CYRELL PRINCESS BENALLY! (it was a moment to be lived really...not so much read)
2) cyrell tells me he went to the zoo this weekend, when i asked him what he saw at the zoo he named a few animals but for the last one he turned around, stuck his but out at me and said, "the one that goes.... poooooooot on you" .....i just stared. he then said, "you know the one that is stinky!" i just stared again. i'm not sure if i figured out it was a skunk or if he ended up telling me- regardless this was the highest point of my day =o)
I LOVE YOU CYRELL !
an event which i was not expecting today...:
the child in my class who had been physically abused in the fall starting crying today (which is NOT normal for him) after my aid was harsh to him during math centers. i took him outside and asked him if what my aid said hurt his feelings...he said no...(i was surprised yet happy that he was responding to me) ..i then asked if someone at home made him feel upset....he nodded yes. this was the point, this was the freakin point
ARE YOU SERIOUS? ARE YOU STILL EMOTIONALLY AND/OR PHYSICALLY ABUSING YOUR CHILD???? WHAT THE FUCK MAN??? YOU DON'T DESERVE THE TITLE OF FATHER.
that is what i want to tell his dad. i then asked if his dad had hit him..thank the LORD he said no. I then asked if his dad got mad at him or called him stupid...this is when he nodded yes...
AGAIN WHAT THE FUCK MAN YOUR CHILD IS 5- BACK OFF!
my student frequently inverts his letters and numbers and i'm sure this is what frustrated his dad. and then my aid (as usual) became frustrated with him for not writing his numbers correctly..and that is what set him off. i knew something was wrong because when i asked him a question he just stared blankly into space...looking like he needed to let go of some pain he had been holding onto all day =( what the hell????????i want to take this child home and TAKE CARE OF HIM. let me raise him for the time i am here..because clearly the shit which is happening at home is not going to cut it. DON'T MESS WITH MY KID. i hate this for my student..i hate it. what do i do? do i confront mom? if i do, she will probably tell him to stop telling me anything that happens at home. do i go to the counselor who in the fall was wary of reporting the abuse case? who the crap do i go to???? its not fair damn it. life is not fair.
i love him. i don't want him to be scared of his family. i don't. i really don't.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
i have decided to no longer let negative events effect my well-being. there is no need to damn it! i am not in haiti, i am not in darfur, i am not a refugee, i am not millions of miles from civilization...well...;) man i can freakin video chat now..INSANE. i can see the faces of my friends and feel as if i am sitting close to them. i can talk to anyone anywhere instantaneously...loneliness ? really nupur? i am determined to do something different every weekend. it has to happen . i know my time here will quickly pass...although some nights...realllll slow...regardless this is the west- sites are abundant of which i have not seen! which must be seen. ima do it. ima make that change for myself. YES i can. how much cornier can this get? haha
as far as school my aid yet remains a psycho bitch. i shouldn't be so harsh..she just takes discipline to a level which i have only seen in movies...movies which are about going to a military boot camp. hence psycho bitch. i have to talk to her. like really talk to her. not just "maybe you shouldn't get so mad at them..." no. i have to say ,"I can't have this is my classroom any longer. You have got to stop. It is making me uncomfortable. You are hindering my ability to love and teach these kids. go away damn it." if i simply say these things maybe she will leave kindergarten. i want her to have a job and be happy but just not in my classroom. no more. damn it. no more. get away. i have never wanted anyone in my life to get so far away from me as i would like my aid to. thats a strong statement i have made...real strong.
i want to pick back up the 10 best parts of my day, so here it goes =o)
1. Orlan Dale brought a teddy bear to school along with a white curtain. in the middle of reading he got the white curtain out of his bag and wrapped it around his bear and said the following words, "look! he getting married!"
2. Cyrell was playing with toy animals..when i asked him what he was doing he responded with the following, " they are going to india, want to come?"
3. we started learning how to count by 5's today..after i showed them how and we went through counting by 5's once landon said, "COOL! i'm learning!!"
4. Kevin was talking to himself while i was teaching, when i asked him what he was talking about he did not respond..but landon did: "He's thinking about God!"
5. Landon came up behind me to give me a hug. I pretended like I did not know who it was so I said, "who is it?" his response, "oooooooooooooo (like a ghost) its wyatt!" Wyatt is another kid in my class..not a ghost haha
6. Kyren was drawing a valcano and bat on his white board. When I asked him about his picture he drew himself and then said ," look, its a bullet coming but i hit it and it went back" the bullet was a big blue circle beside the picture of himself
7. Orlan brought in a frog stuffed animal ....it had NO EYES
8. Orlan told me to give him my hand..when i did he kissed it! way to cute for this world
9. I told cyrell to draw 18 on his board. he did but he also included a heart between the 1 and the 8...when i asked him why he drew the heart their he said, "because they're in love"
10. after school i had a red marker and started drawing on neala's hands. I wrote, "I love you" on one hand and "Neala loves mom and dad" on the other hand. The next day she came into class with the writing on her hand still and said, "I showed my mom!!"
=) eeeeeeeeeeee
today she asked me to write on her hand again after-school..so sweet =o)
as far as school my aid yet remains a psycho bitch. i shouldn't be so harsh..she just takes discipline to a level which i have only seen in movies...movies which are about going to a military boot camp. hence psycho bitch. i have to talk to her. like really talk to her. not just "maybe you shouldn't get so mad at them..." no. i have to say ,"I can't have this is my classroom any longer. You have got to stop. It is making me uncomfortable. You are hindering my ability to love and teach these kids. go away damn it." if i simply say these things maybe she will leave kindergarten. i want her to have a job and be happy but just not in my classroom. no more. damn it. no more. get away. i have never wanted anyone in my life to get so far away from me as i would like my aid to. thats a strong statement i have made...real strong.
i want to pick back up the 10 best parts of my day, so here it goes =o)
1. Orlan Dale brought a teddy bear to school along with a white curtain. in the middle of reading he got the white curtain out of his bag and wrapped it around his bear and said the following words, "look! he getting married!"
2. Cyrell was playing with toy animals..when i asked him what he was doing he responded with the following, " they are going to india, want to come?"
3. we started learning how to count by 5's today..after i showed them how and we went through counting by 5's once landon said, "COOL! i'm learning!!"
4. Kevin was talking to himself while i was teaching, when i asked him what he was talking about he did not respond..but landon did: "He's thinking about God!"
5. Landon came up behind me to give me a hug. I pretended like I did not know who it was so I said, "who is it?" his response, "oooooooooooooo (like a ghost) its wyatt!" Wyatt is another kid in my class..not a ghost haha
6. Kyren was drawing a valcano and bat on his white board. When I asked him about his picture he drew himself and then said ," look, its a bullet coming but i hit it and it went back" the bullet was a big blue circle beside the picture of himself
7. Orlan brought in a frog stuffed animal ....it had NO EYES
8. Orlan told me to give him my hand..when i did he kissed it! way to cute for this world
9. I told cyrell to draw 18 on his board. he did but he also included a heart between the 1 and the 8...when i asked him why he drew the heart their he said, "because they're in love"
10. after school i had a red marker and started drawing on neala's hands. I wrote, "I love you" on one hand and "Neala loves mom and dad" on the other hand. The next day she came into class with the writing on her hand still and said, "I showed my mom!!"
=) eeeeeeeeeeee
today she asked me to write on her hand again after-school..so sweet =o)
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