Happy Monday evening! Man it feels more like a Sunday night than usual! I know it’s Monday but I didn’t work today. I also took an unexpected sick day Friday. Thursday I got home from work and spiked a 102 degree fever! It was crazy. I don’t ever remember having a fever that high in my adult life! My ears were on fire! It was crazy. I spent Friday sleeping off and on. I had a few people offer to bring me food and alcohol and a few people that did bring me food. I am so grateful for all of you! Thank you! I watched a lot of Tv! I got all caught up on SVU. I am feeling so much better! Almost back to normal, my temperature is back, my cough is almost gone. Now just to make sure I am ready for tomorrow!
So the mouse saga continues in my room. I discovered that the mouse had made himself a nice little nest in my desk drawer. So I took the opportunity to clean out my desk. I threw away everything that he had chewed up to make a home. Then I clorox wiped EVERYTHING! On Wednesday I was teaching in front of the class. I tend to pace when I teach. So I was walking toward the door and I saw a little guy run from behind a shelf out the door. I froze mid sentence and just stared. The kids were like “Ms WHAT?!?” I just stared. That is all I could do. Stare. Once I regained composure I kept going. The kids obviously figured it out. The kids keep calling it a rat. I keep correcting them that it is a mouse. So they wanted to know what the difference is. I had to look it up. Basically the big difference I know was size. So that is true and rats leave an oily footprint. So as I was explaining this to my kids it got me thinking about all the random conversations that I have during a week. So here are some of them that I had in the 4 days I went to work last week. A lot of them happen during my 5th period. I enjoy that group of kids! So enjoy!
Convo 1:
Frank: Ms when do we get to dissect a frog?
Me: um I don’t know? High school maybe? I’ll ask around for you.
Alan: When do we get to use test tubes and things? Ms, This isn’t what I thought science would be. I thought there would be test tubes and we would be curing a kid with cancer!
Me: I can bring in some test tubes but Cancer will have to wait.
Convo 2:
Felipe: Ms I saw you in the Walmart parking lot this weekend.
Me: False
Felipe: Yes ms… I did! You were wearing a really cute outfit.
Me: Double false!
Felipe: Yes Ms! I saw you in the Walmart parking lot! Or was it Target?
Me: it was neither because I wasn’t at either of those places this weekend. And I spent a great deal of my weekend in my pajamas. So it wasn’t me shopping in a cute outfit
Jade: So what now Felipe? Who did you see?!?
Convo 3:
Jarrell: Ms. What is the name of this song and who sings it?
Me: hey there delilah by the plain white t’s
Jarrell (to a classmate): Ms Gutierrez is turning me on to all kinds of new songs.
Me: You like this song (trying to figure out if he is mocking my music or legit likes it)
Jarrell: (to me) Can you write the name down? (to classmate) She always has different songs I like
Convo 3 B (next day):
Jarrell: Ms I know all of these songs
Me: I am sorry
Jarrell: How am I supposed to add new music to my list?
Convo 3 C (following day):
Jarrell: Ms, where’s the music today?
Convo 4:
Jesse: Ms? Do you know you have a rat in here?
Me: I believe it is a mouse
Jesse: um….
Me: Is it little or big?
Jesse: little i guess
Me: It’s a mouse
Jesse: Ok, whatever it is it is kinda freaking me out sitting over there like he is trying to learn too.
Convo 5:
Steven: ms do you have a desk at your house?
Me: I do in the room I call my “office” but I’m kind of trying to do something else with that room so I don’t really use it much. It’s just kind of there.
Felipe: the room you call your office?! How many rooms do you have?
Me: I have a three bedroom house.
Steven: And you live alone?
Me: yeah… i mean and my dog
Felipe: Okay But for real, how many bathrooms do you have?
Me: 2
Steven: And you live alone?!
Felipe: Ms. That’s so cool!
Convo 6: I have LED lights in my room the day the color was green
Caesar: Ms Do you like spiders?
Me: I mean spiders are spiders.
Cesar: Did you know that green is a spider’s favorite color?
Me: no I didn’t know that.
Caesar: Yeah so let’s just change the light color unless you want spiders in here!
Convo 7:
Felipe: Ms Where is your microwave?
Me: I don’t have one
Felipe: What?! Why!? Where do you warm up your food?
Me: I don’t often bring food that needs warming but when I do I usually just use Mrs. Pierces.
Felipe: Mrs. Pierce has one?
Me: Yeah, it is in the storage closet
Steven: Felipe why are you so concerned with her food warming abilities? Are you gonna buy her a microwave?
Felipe: She is warming her food in a closet!
Convo 8:
Me: Karin who sits at your table?
Karin: Ulises
Mauricio: And that other girl Ms.
Me: What other girl?!?
Mauricio: Um Ashely? You said she would sit there but she never came back.
Me: oh right… She never did come back. She ran away to join a circus.
Lesley: WHAT?!? Like a real circus? How do you know? When?
Convo 9:
Ricky: Ms she called me a nerd
Me: Just say Thank you. Remember the nerds are the ones that end up being the bosses, or becoming teachers!
Alejandra: Well he called me the “S” word!
Me: aww he called you spectacular!?!?
Ricky: yeah that’s what i said
Alejandra: Yes, refer to me as spectacular from now on!
Convo 10:
Ricky: me what do you keep on top of your fridge at home?
Me: I have some downy unstoppables, a puzzle (in a box) and some rat poison. Basically stuff I don’t want the dog to get to.
Ricky: So not cereal?
Me: nope
Micheal: Well, where do you keep your cereal?
Me: in the pantry?
Ricky: Wow, strange.
These are just the ones I wrote down! 6th graders are fun! Well It is getting kinda late and some of us have to get up and work in the morning! Haha But really I have to make sure I have my clothes ready and my lesson ready! Short weeks are always harder than regular weeks! So *deep breath* Here we go! Have a good week! Here is the next weeks pictures!
The Chronicles Of Nay 
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