This next-to-last full week of school before Christmas break hasn’t been too bad, really. In fact, it’s been downright good–even though the snowstorm that hit us hard on Saturday didn’t make the school system miss a beat yesterday or today.
One struggling student, with only a little help from me, actually came up with this terrific simile yesterday: “as hungry as a paper waiting to be written on.” (I’m ignoring M’s claim that it doesn’t work because it’s a mixed metaphor.)
Another student, who came up with “waddled like a penguin with a wedgie,” today brought me a Christmas card and a basket of homemade sweets (chocolate covered Oreo crumbs, chocolate covered pretzels, etc.). I think maybe she gave me all her leftovers from the day, since I heard another student say, “You’re giving all of them to him?” (which is, by the way, exponentially better than “You’re giving all of them to him?”).
After class, though, my gifter said, “You know, you could give me one of those chocolate covered Oreo things, just, you know, since….”
“What?” I said, and she melted back to her seat there in the back corner beside the boy who she frequently competes with in silence contests.
Earlier in the day, after I invited everyone to my band’s gig on Monday, another student offered to join my band.
“No,” I told him. “You have to be an old fart and ugly to be in my band, so you don’t qualify.”
Finally, a student I taught last year last week offered yet again to be a teacher’s assistant for me for a class period or two. Today she followed up her offer with this message commented onto my classroom blog: “Hello >.< How are you today? I am doing well, We did an assignment and I have a 93.4% chance of working with cpu's when I am older. Let me know when you have work for me okay. Talk to you later then~ Just let me know ^_^"I’ll do just that.