I did not make her flip her card.
*In my classroom we have a color coded behavior chart. Green is good. Blue is warning. Yellow is note home. Pink is office referral. If students misbehave, they have to "flip their card" to the next color. It's devastating to them. I'm sure someday they will laugh at the fact that flipping their card to blue caused them weep uncontrollably in front of all of their classmates.
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awww..the spelling is awesome :)) :))
and darth jr. used to have the card flipping thing too at his school. according to him, he never had a card flipped :p
OMFG
for years i never knew why i would sometimes wail uncontrollably upon seeing the color blue
it's all coming back...
thank you, ms. rose. i can now lock the doors to my happy place and throw away the key.
i actually thought the handwriting was pretty good for a 1st grader :o) what does that say about me?
i love how she capitalised every word.
You should mention about commas Ms Wose...
Darth - so you fell for that one did you? Parents...
Jackt - I'm very sorry about your butt. Do you need the name of a good doctor?
Brando - I am your happy place, baby.
Brianna - She does have good handwriting! She also likes to write me notes in script, which she doesn't know how to do yet. Needless to say it's indecipherable.
JJ - her writing is better than many bloggers out there. You should see this one chick, I think her name is Traci-Lee.
Brooke, i know Traci Lee. She's a stunner, that one. Shame she's a bit of a slapper, innit?
I remember substituting in an elementary class, all the students kept telling me to flip cards on the kids they didn't like.
bunch of wankers.
Well, I sure hope I don't find hair balls in my bed.
Beware, Brooke, of teaching such youngsters for long. I'm sure you do it well, but what concerns me is after 30 years of it you'll see everyone as a 1st grader. And worse treat them as such. I worked for a man who taught 7th grade math for 30 years and he has no skills. None! One day he was wearing women's perfume. I assume he grabbed his wife's bottle, but rather than showering again, he came in to work.
He talked down to all the employees, kind of like 7th grade baby talk. Everything had to be done his way, even though it was the most difficult way.
I'm babbling, I can't think of a more appropriate place.
Blue's my favourite colour. So I must be in constant warning mode. Perhaps that explains my high anxiety levels. :-)
JJ - you say slapper like it's a bad thing.
KK - oh little ones live to tattle. I tell my kids that they have to pay me a dollar if they want to tattle. If I really took their money I could retire.
Toby - your concern is valid. However teaching is my second career, so I think I'm safe. By the time I'm ready to retire I'll be an old fart treating everyone like a first grader anyway. Now quit your babbling or you'll flip your card.
Bill - or it could be those little blue pills you keep popping...
Aww...I have to remember not to be a pan in the but today, or my butt will be on fire!
That child will grow up to be a lobbyist. That was ever so eloquent for her age.
When I got in trouble in first grade, we were simply told to write sentences on the board. The fact that none of us knew how to write sentences for a good portion of our 1st grade lives made this punishment, *gulp* absolutely terrifying.
I loved it when I was teaching 1st grade and I had a student (Patrick) who would cry at a drop of a hat - sobbed one day when I sent him to another teacher's room.
How much do I love the card flip? That is so cute.
Today I told 3 boys I would call their mommies if they didn't cut it out. (they are 13)
Another boy laughed, so I said, and YOU, I'm calling your DAD.
No more laughing.
My car smells like watermelon gum.
I would try to find out why, but I'm sure I don't want to dislodge it from the carpet and I rather enjoy the smell.
Cards? You mean you don't beat them with rulers?
She's so cute--You ought to give her a "get out of flip" free card!
way too many color charts these days.
I used the card system in elementary school, too!!!! I love those damn cards! and I miss them, too. and I've been missing you, as a matter of fact!!!
so - with that note, did you make her flip her card or what?!
Yeah. Just re-read that bit about not making her flip the card at the bottom of your post!
What does "good behaviour" mean, aunty brooke?
thats the love... she still wants to make you happy ;)
I'm glad you didn't flip her card. That note was very thoughtful and honest....and we know that honesty is the best policy. She sure gave her spelling a red-hot go. Brings back memories of a time when I taught the little ones.
*tear*
The lawyer's guild against personal responsibility will be suing you for cruel and unusual treatment in 3... 2... 1...
Was she actually sorry or was she just telling you what you wanted to hear so you wouldn't make her flip her card.
You know when I was in school we had real punishments.
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To that same old place that you laughed about.
Well the names have all changed since you hung around,
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Who'd have thought they'd lead ya (Who'd have thought they'd lead ya)
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I love Welcome Back Kotter.
Cool, a new post. You've inspired me to become a teacher.
How many sides do these cards have?
How is associating the color pink with being bad even remotely sexist?
That's stupid.
If you start assigning gender to colors no one will ever be happy. Everytime one of your gender colors gets used in a negative way people will shout "Racism", "Sexism" or whatever, and then we will never be able to use colors for anything ever and all of our clothes will be white and then some racist black guy will get pissed cause he has to wear white clothes and the North Korean military will launch a nuclear strike against us because yellow is one of our terror alert levels. Humanity will be destroyed and there will be nothing left but scorched earth. How does that fit in to your feminist ideology?
It's only a color, let it go.
Steve Buscemi had a problem with being Mr. Pink.
That's adorable! I have a first grader and she always writes me notes like that when she gets upset and doesn't want to talk. What a wonderful age!
Chicky - you'll have a pink butt!
Janet - I love that someday my kids will remember me for stuff like this.
Amy - I used to hate making kids cry. Now I don't even notice. I've turned into a heartless bitch. No wait...already was one.
SG - I could not handle the teens. You are a good woman.
Ubie - I have a few that I would snap like a twig if it didn't result in being fired. And there's the jail thing too.
Neil - that's ok. I never read your posts either.
Vince - I may have to use that - a get out of flip free card - I love it.
Dan - I'm sorry, I don't mean to be so confusing for you.
MoMo - I love the color chart! It rocks. My kids work very hard to have "all green days" for the class.
Pixie - your mommy is a nightmare.
Mone - that's why I love this grade, they are still so lovey and anxious to please.
Dora and Tina - ummm...ok.
JJ - God I love lawyer jokes.
Nick - real punishments? Do tell.
Anita - I have absolutely no idea how to respond to this comment.
Lo Lo - I missed you too my anal twin!
That came out wrong...
Toby - me too.
Egan - you would be an awesome teacher, I've told you that already.
Prick - did you see the lawyer joke up there? hehehe
Nick - this rocks. I've only just gotten back and there is already a fight on my blog.
Toby - Steve Buscemi has many problems, starting with his teeth.
Weedie - I get at least a dozen love notes a day from my kids. The custodians are always giggling over them after school.
Brooke, you should compile them into a book. Gold mine.
Sorry, Brooke, it had to be done.
Toby - I have several books in me. No wonder I can't lose this excess weight.
Nick - I'm with ya brutha.
You mean all I had to do in school to avoid trouble was write a note like that?
My exaggerated eye-rolling and sighing sure as hell didn't help.
Excuses, excuses. - Frank McCourt
Todd - cards are not flipped for eye rolling. Eye rolling brings on a day from hell the likes of which these little monsters have never known.
Toby - fuck that guy is depressing.
That's so awesome. When my mom taught second grade one of my favourite things was reading their creative writing books. I don't know how teachers manage to keep it all together.
War and Bush are depressing. Smile why/when the sun shines.
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What an awesome note! That child is my new hero.
...intersting, tho. My card would have always been pink. Fitting, eh?
I am totally the person who would have cried if forced to flip my color in elementary school. Whether I should be horrified that I was such a nerd or pleased that I wanted to be good...still not sure.
Incidentally, any way to make the site able to be commentable-on (yes, fabulous grammar) if someone doesn't have a blogger account? I kind of want to check out some of your funny commenter's sites, but can't get there!
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Hi! Look at you, writing a post!
Look at me, reading it and clapping my hands with glee.
/clap, clap, clap
I like the card flipping idea. I'm going to have to share that with my best friend. My godson (her son) is a handful.
The horse has been kicked, The cat is dead
Holy CUTE!
Once again, you make me wanna teach. I'm considering a crazy plan to get my sorry ass through school. When I have it a little more thought out I may ask for your opinion.
the amazing thing is that you were gone for like a month, and you still get fifty comments on your site
Heeheeheehee. I remember this sort of thing from when I was a kid. We had stickers that would go on a crown that would go on our heads at the end of the year and the kid with the most stickers would... um... have the most stickers.
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