Whitney Houston

As I was spending some time after school tutoring one of my firsties we somehow got on the topic of Whitney Houston (prime example of how you can be teaching a 6 year old yet their mind is somewhere totally different.)
student: "Hey! Miss Kenimer did you watch Whitney Houston's funeral?"
me: "No I think I missed that one, did you?"
student: "Oh yeah, that's all we watched. Did you know that when she was a teenager she looked JUST like a boy!?"
student: "Yeah, and when she looked like a boy they even had gray T.Vs too..isn't that awful?!"

"they got skills!"

I have an "I'm finished jar" in my classroom with an assortment of activity cards my students can work on if they finish their work early. The activity cards tend to be seasonal, so I change them out pretty often. For winter I have had a lot in there about polar bears. One was a question and answer activity to get the children to think logically and use what we have learned about animals recently. One student's activity card question said "Why do you think polar bears walk on four legs?"
 He responded on his paper "because they got skills!".  (=

Miss Kenimer is MISSING!

In November I went to a conference for 1st grade teachers and left my kiddos with a sub for two days. One of their writing activities while I was gone was to complete a writing prompt about me missing. I did not tell the kids I was going to be absent so that they could do this writing activity. My sub(who actually taught my kiddos in prek) told them I was missing and that they had to write about where they think I was. Here are a few of the funny ones....

"I think Miss Kenimer is having surgery on her leg. She didn't want it. If you find her call first grade!"

"Ms. Kenimer is lost. I think she took a taxi to Hawaii. And rented a house forever and had a great vacation."

"Miss Kenimer is missing I think she went out on a date or is on a business trip."

"I think she is in the bathroom hiding in a stall. She looks like well she has brown hair and she has a dog. She loves Auburn."



These kids are funny! I seriously could not make this stuff up if I tried! (=

Love is in the air!

First graders LOVE writing their teacher notes, cards, letters or pictures to tell them they love them. It brings a smile to my face to walk in and find a special handwritten note from one of my kiddos just because! I was running out of room on my desk to hang all of them so I decided to start a "love notes" binder to keep them in. It makes a great coffee table book at my house too! (=

For Vday today I decided to repay them for all the sweet notes by leaving them one with a donut hole.

You know you teach first grade when.....

* You once neatest hand writers are all the sudden writing their names illegibly because they are attempting to write in cursive with no formal instruction. 


* You have considered changing your name to anything other than what it is because if you hear Ms. _______ one more time in one day you might scream. 


*You have at least 1 Dr. Jean cd


*You have ever pulled out a loose tooth...and then get just as excited as the student when the tooth actually comes out!


*On the same note: you silently go crazy every time a student repeatedly gets up from the carpet to get a tissue to wiggle a loose tooth. 


*It is not abnormal for you to say "please get your fingers out of your nose!!" at least once if not 20 times a day. 


*You go through no less than 422 glue sticks a year.


*You get just as excited as the kids do when a Scholastic Book Order comes in. 


*If you had a $0.50 for every question you answered in a day you could retire at age 30.


* You have a closet full of clorox wipes and hand sanatizer in your classroom. 


* Your heart smiles when you hear firsties read, smiling at the fact that you are responsible for that. 

Boyfriend?

student: "Miss Kenimer, do you have a boyfriend?"
me: "No, I do not have a boyfriend right now."
student: Oh..well Giri is my boyfriend because he told me so...but the BEST part is we still get to stay with our OWN families!" 
-She was so excited that she could have a boyfriend and still live with her parents. haha!

Smart kiddo!

 Pajama Day..this was my favorite pajamas one of my kiddos wore. 


"Miss Kenimer, I'm going to be the next Cam Newton!"

We matched!! (= War Eagle!

100 days smarter!

To celebrate the 100th day of school we dressed up as "100 year olds"

One of the best parts was watching them walk around like old people all day.

"Miss Kenimer, I think I'll be good and dead when I'm 100" 

Here our some of my favorite pictures from the day.....

excuses

I have been a MAJOR slacker at updating my blog lately so I am making a point to add something to it at least once a week at the same time no matter what! No excuses anymore....

Speaking of excuses yesterday I asked one of my kiddos why he had not done what I asked him to do yet and he said he forgot then looked at me for a moment and said..."I'm full of excuses Miss Kenimer!"

At least he is honest! haha