Wednesday, January 18, 2012

It was one of THOSE days

It has been COLD with a capital C (-5 to -15 degrees)!  We have had 2 days of indoor recess, and will probably continue to have it the rest of this week.  There is a nasty flu going around and I started feeling yucky today.

I'm sitting at my teacher table doing Reading Mastery with some of my struggling kiddos and are trying to say words slow, then fast {mmmaaannn - man} - this is a painful process, when all of a sudden my stomach starts to hurt.  I switch from coffee to water, and keep on teaching {what are you going to do?} but it still hurts, so much in fact that when my kiddos sit down to write in their Journals, I text my friend and sub, Jessica to see if she can come in for me tomorrow.  Thankfully she can.  I send my kiddos off to lunch with my TA, and venture down to the staff room with a couple of my teammates {the ONLY time we eat in the staff room is when we have indoor recess}.

About 25 minutes into lunch/recess, the fire alarm goes off.  I give my teammates a look, and rush out into the hall.  My kiddos are walking down the hall on their way back from lunch, thankfully with my TA.  I get them out of the building, while my TA went back to room to grab their coats {she whispered to me "I don't care if I get fired!"} and we stand in the cold {-13} for 3 minutes until they announce that we can go back in.

Later, I'm checking in with the Resource Teacher {who happens to be one of our Teachers in Charge} and she tells me my special friend from last year {the one who drove me crazy and gave me all my gray hair} is the one who pulled the fire alarm.

I love my job!

3 comments:

  1. I'm sorry you had such a bad day. Hope you feel better soon!
    Kimberly
    Funky First Grade Fun

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  2. That is CRAZY!!! Are they not allowed to stop and get their coats?? Man!!!!
    Hope you feel better!!! And stay warm!
    A Teeny Tiny Teacher

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  3. I feel for you and the cold. It's be Cold here too. :/ We had a crazy fire alarm scene last year too. It was -5 and the alarm went off. We didn't have our coats and it was COLD and windy. My poor kids, they were so good. We were outside for 5 min before they let us go back in. The alarm just went wrong and set it self off. Weirdness.

    Ms. M
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