Sunday, January 25, 2009
No coloring
So today I had 6 girls show up. I have a total of 10 kids, only 2 boys, the rest girls. Let me just say that they where quite the handful in class. Sharing time they were gems. We even got the reverent bear! (A bear that sits in front of the room and gets sent to the class that is the most reverent in sharing time so they could have it in their classroom.) I had to repeately tell them to sit in their chair, put their dress down, put their shoes on, stop dancing around and fold their arms and be reverent. I started to get a little upset. At one point I even stopped in mid sentence and folded my arms and said that I would just wait until they are ready and folding their arms. After just a minute or two (that felt like forever) they listened and payed attention for a few minutes until one would do something then the rest would follow. I had the reverent bear sitting in front of the class and had to keep reminding them that the reverent bear is watching and is not happy that they are not being reverent. I then started threatening them with no coloring time. They listened again for a few minutes then were back to their own worlds. At the end of class when they asked if it was coloring time I said no. I told them that they had not been respectful and were not reverent and didn't deserve coloring time. Top it off I had them each give the reverent bear a hug and say their sorry for not being reverent. Boy what a mean teacher I am! When the parents came to get their child I handed the coloring page that I had planned on using and gave it to the child and said that if they want to color next week they better be reverent. (I said it in front of the parent in hopes that they would have a little chat about how to act in class.) I guess we will see next week. I felt like it was a bit harsh to take away coloring time, but hopefully they will learn to listen and obey and be reverent.
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