vampire teeth.

this is like a sunday morning post, but for friday.

friday's top 10.

[in no particular order]

1.  the king or queen of the day gets to eat lunch to me.  (yes, they get to.  it is quite the privilege.)  yesterday my new little student ate with me.  sad.  i wanted to take her home with me. and help her learn how to read.  i'm only one person!  and i have 22 little ones that need me--and some really do whether it be academically or emotionally, they need me.

and then i got this little gem.

 

"Sometimes we feel that we are weak and lack the strength to rescue others, but the Lord reminds us, 'Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me' (Matthew 25:40)."

(from here)

2.  one of my girls came in today with her mouth looking sort of funny, like she had a piece of licorice stuffed up in her upper lip (yeah, we used to do that to pretend we had braces--like we wanted them or something).  then we were sitting at the carpet and i noticed these little things poking out of the sides of her mouth.

vampire teeth.  "so in king-of-the-day's name, there are 5 letters.  3 are consonants.  how many are vowels?  girl go put that in your backpack.  boy, how many?" 

bang. just like that. no one even knows.  but girl sure knew.

3.  vampire teeth came back after lunch.  same thing.  it was so funny, i really have to bite my tongue sometimes!

4.  this cute little chunk gave me a hug the other morning and said, "i like how you're skinny.  do you want to know why?"  "why?"   "because then i can hug you with 2 arms and .lalalalalalalala."  she went off for awhile.  it was very interesting.

5.  just in case you didn't get the memo, mr. webster changed the spelling of a few words.

      weekend = weeqad

      wedding = wadeg

      monkeys = maqes

      brother = brathr

      second = saqit

6.  there is this girl in first grade that is absolutely gorgeous.  gorgeous skin. gorgeous, curly hair.  gorgeous smile.  so cute.  i wish i looked like her but 15 years older.  today i was standing by the drinking fountains while all of the kids were getting drinks after recessing.  she gets her drink, looks up at me and says, "you look really pretty."  and i wanted to eat her up! and i said, "thank you so much!"  (really i wanted to take her to Disneyland with me or something, but i can't.)

7.  the current state of my classroom.

and my desk.

8.  today marks 2 months until my bday.  HOLLLLLA!!! i'll make a list of acceptable gifts now.

9.  santa died.  well, not really but kind of. i thought it was going to blow up.  it didn't .  but the belt broke off and neither my power steering nor my ac work.  it is 85 out today.  and please, when you pray tonight, thank the Lord for power steering.  it's like i am cranking the wheel on the teacups at disneyland every time i turn my car!  nbd.

10.  one of my students said to me the other day, "miss kendrick, guess what!"

"what, boy!?"

"my picture is on my facebook page!"

"that's cool!"  [seriously, a face book page?  you're 8 years old!]

"yeah, but you have to be my friend to see all of my pictures and stuff."