Better and Not

Update on the kid who fell off the slide: he has a mild concussion and a spinal compression fracture in four vertebrate. There's no damage to his actual spinal cord! And it's far enough up his spine that his rib cage acts as a brace. So. No recess/heavy lifting for the next 4-6 weeks. That's going to be hard on him because he's a farm boy, and I know how antsy they get when dads are harvesting! Continued prayers would be appreciated.

While that kid is doing better, my class is not. We tried rearranging the desks into three horizontal rows to see if that would help my kiddos who like to talk across the U shape. It helped some of them, but not the most vocal kid. We'll see how tomorrow goes. We only read two pages of our read aloud book because the class was so unsettled (plus it took a while to switch the desks around).

One kid decided to see how many sweatshirts he could wear at one time and borrowed as many as his classmates had to put on. He didn't do his work, just messed around, and wouldn't do what he was supposed to. After three chances, he got sent to work in Mr. E's room. I walked him down the first time. After he came back, he still couldn't settle in and do his work like he was supposed to! So I sent him back again! This time he actually went down there with no detours. I could've even sent him a third time this afternoon. A second kid got kicked out of class and ended up sitting in the gym while Mr. E ran PE for the little guys. Sigh. Yeah. It was a rough day.

Now that we're in rows, we're going to have to move our desks into a circle for religion class... We won't have religion again until Monday, what with chapel tomorrow and our Camp Omega trip Thursday and Friday. I didn't think much of it until I realized VIP day is Monday. We're going to have a bunch of visitors in our room with us from 8:30-9:00am, prime religion time. So if we don't practice getting into a circle sometime before then, Monday will be our first time. Hmm... with some classes I would chance it, but not this one. My current plan is to practice moving the desks for religion Thursday morning before we go to Camp Omega.