How to Throw a Tantrum

Step one: Find any reason at all to get mad. IE: a brand-new and soon to be freakishly annoying baby doll that is still in its box, thus making you angry.

Step two: Be sure you are in a public setting because no one cares if you throw a tantrum on your own. IE: Dollar General

Step three: Find the highest traffic area to lay yourself down so that your mother has to give you attention or it disrupts other shoppers' experience. IE: An aisle in front of all the other aisles.

Step four: Have a mom who cares that you are angry. IE: Not a mom who takes pictures while walking away.

Step five: Lay in spread eagle there absolutely silent and wait for something to happen.

Step six: When nothing does happen and your mom starts leaving you, get up and run whining to your mom before she leaves you in the store for the trolls to eat you.

Step seven: Listen to Mommy get lectured by Daddy because she gave you the doll even after you threw a fit. Bad mommy.

It's a Bird, It's a Plane! No!! It's ...

Mrs. Parsons' Superheroes!!

Let me take you on a tour of a superhero themed classroom. 

When you come in, you will notice our flashy table names hanging from the ceiling. I have four table groups named after famous locations: Asgard (Thor); Gotham City (Batman, duh!); New York City (Spider-Man and others); and Metropolis (Superman). The kids loved this detail!!

Cafe reading board has superhero signs! It was a free download from TPT. Comment for the link, I just don't have it on my phone. 

Our Daily planet (scheduling board). As you can see, I am all about printing signs. I don't have the patience to hand create fancy smanchy stuff. But give me a Word document and I am all over that!!

On our Daily planet we have  our behavior chart on the far left. From top to bottom the sections are: Superhero, gaining power, HERO (have everything ready and organized), losing power, and powerless. 

Everything else is pretty explanatory except that I have added our classroom jobs. We did make our jobs sound like Superheroes as much as possible. 

Now is my first class pet! I do two things with naming pets: video games or superheroes (guess which I picked) PLUS we go in backwards alphabetical order with each consecutive pet. Therefore, our fish had to be named .... Drum roll please .... Xavier!!! After the amazing Professor Charles Xavier. 

Is this just a perfect Xavier or what???

As we continue, we have our book boxes that I used calendar numbers to label. I will have to readjust number 10....

And another close up of our calendar. The characters on here did have to be purchased. They are also on my nametags, which I didn't post because of last names. 

Again, I am really good at printing and not creating! So please, if you think my walls are bare- we have many regulations  in my building and I do add throughout the year with content specific pieces. Also, comment if you want the seller on TPT for the amazing things or just search for them. 😎😎😎

Blessings to every teacher who reads!

Nightmares of a Teacher

Before this week, I never had teaching nightmares or even dreams. My grandma (retired teacher since the nineties) tells me all the time about how she still has nightmares and crazy dreams about students in the classroom. 

This is where I start getting pensive about my job without breaking FERPA so I have to stay completely vague. 

After only starting my third year of teaching, I have heard many heartbreaking stories. They are beginning to keep me up at night and I spend many of my prayers on the children who deserve love in every way. Children should not be neglected, abused, molested, or hungry. As a mother and a woman who has devoted her life to be surrounded by little people, I am weighed down by the sins of men and women who have made terrible choices. 

This week, I have slept on the couch because I have been so fitful in my sleep that I am worried about waking up my daughter who sleeps within arms reach in her bed. She is the child I was given to protect and her father and I will protect her for the rest of our lives. Not just until she moves out, gets married, and has her own child. Forever I will protect and love her like she deserves. 

I had to tell a mother this week, "Even when it seems impossible, I will help him. Every child deserves a village."

Teachers choose to be a piece of every village and sometimes it is unbearable but the children need us.