Messy

Pinata time again this morning during read aloud.  They were quieter today, but then an incident happened to liven things up...  One of the 6th grade girls somehow tipped over their glue container into the other 6th grade girl's crate.  It splashed glue on the other girl's pants, shoes, books, Bible, and the carpet.  Gross.  

She cleaned herself up pretty good. The floor is, eh whatever, since the carpet gets cleaned each summer.  The books... *wince* well, the spiller got most of the Bible's pages apart again.  There are a few in Matthew stuck together beyond repair.  One of the classroom library books also had some damage, not as bad as the Bible, but two pages are permanently stuck together.  

Someone left his/her phone in a desk, and I can't figure out who it is. I keep hearing a buzzing sound coming from one of the pods, but it quits before I can get over there!

Two of my kiddos were sick today.  One didn't come to school (she didn't look so hot yesterday, so that's not a surprise). Then another one went down during religion with a bad stomachache.  Hopefully that's all that bite the dust in here!

I've been spending most of my after school afternoon doing things to get ready for the Scholastic Book Fair. The consultant basically said if we don't earn $800 total on the fair, it's not worth it for them to send the book fair to us, so we're under a bit more crunch than usual! There's a program called All For Books where schools raise money for literacy and Scholastic matches it dollar for dollar.  We have special activities students can participate in in April to try to get more books for our classrooms.  Kids can spend $1 to eat lunch in a different classroom, chew gum for the morning, wear PJs to school, have 15min of Lego building in Mrs. E's room, have 15min of playtime with the preschool room.  The 15min sessions are limit one per student per week, time TBD at teacher's discretion. Hopefully lots of kids will do it!  Then, the actual week of the book fair, we're having bottle flipping challenges.  Pay $0.25 for three flips.  The more flips you complete, the more prizes you earn!  

...I finally located the source of the strange vibrating noise... it was a FitBit. Or a fitness watch; not sure if it's a real FitBit or just an off-brand.  That explains why no one was frantically coming back to school to grab a left-behind phone. And it also explains why it would be in a desk; I was thinking, "Man, someone was gutsy enough to keep their phone in their desk during the day? They know the rules." There must be an alarm set on the watch; I think I shut it off.