SLACKER!!!!!!!!!!! ;) It's okay, it's my birthday :)

Not my kiddos... me. I'm the slacker. It's THURSDAY and I haven't posted since MONDAY.... bad Mrs. Fankhauser. Do I need a time out???

Moving on!

I've been consumed this week by:
-ENDING MEAP TESTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) The victory dance with R was worth it all.
-Getting my new CAR!
-Writing sub plans for tomorrow (I have an Autism Professional Development Training that I signed up for from 8:30-3:30)

Now that MEAP is over, the car is taken care of (and parked in my driveway :)), and I'm ready for my Autism training, I can get back to the basics of teaching and doing what I love.

L has had an exceptionally peculiar week on his new meds.  It has been such a rollercoaster: either he is completely responsive, follows directions, suggests to his BUDDIES that THEY follow directions to earn their check marks (points sheets) and tickets, OR he is so completely beyond being able to pull it back.  Let me tell you; there is NEVER a dull moment in my classroom.

This week (sorry, I'll be better about blogging every day next week) I was Specially Educated in realizing that if I don't laugh, I will cry :)  I came back from giving the FINAL segment of MEAP to R Wednesday afternoon to find one of the boys sitting in the hallway, getting reamed out by some woman who had no right to speak to him the way she was.  She was telling him that he is a "bad boy", which really irritated me. He's an AMAZING boy that has no impulse control and sometimes makes poor choices.  Back to the story (sorry for the mini rant).  I ask him why he's in the hallway (after making the crazed woman leave) and he responded with something along these lines:

"Welllll.... C was 'daydreaming' and looking at this window by the door, and he was seeing this floating butt and couldn't stop laughing!"

At this point, I had to bite my lip and put up a hand to stop him, telling him that maybe I should ask Mr. G what happened before I let him go on.  Mr. G went on to inform me that the kiddo had pulled both his pants AND underwear down to his ankles and proceeded to moon everyone in our room, followed by giving them the full frontal, all while laughing uncontrollably.  Also, I think you should all know that our classroom is in the same pod as the CI classroom AND the two Kindergarten classrooms. Oops! O:) Not such a good example for the younger ones.

Again, I state... Some days you just have to laugh so you don't cry.

Take it with a grain of salt and make it a lesson learned :)