Valentine's Day, an excuse to load kids with sugar.

I successfully managed a group of already rowdy children, filled with sugar in the last two periods of the day. I rock. Although they are high energy, I find that when I can calm them down that energy is channeled into the classwork. The second period class does not suffer from obnoxiousness or immaturity, but they are so checked out it is hard to get them engaged. In some ways I prefer the ADD crazy kids that want to learn over the "I'm too cool" type of students ever present in the morning. Mrs. Ammirato wrote her usual laundry list of criticisms, but she only mentioned a few, phew! She did compliment my ability to handle a wild child in a minimal way that did not interfere with class. I went over to his desk and stood there giving him that "teacher look." He knew he did something bad, and straighten himself out. I find that I am getting less emotionally entangled. That's crazy that I would be so strong so soon. I will stay with this positive feeling. It is so exhausting to maintain an orderly classroom, but it feels really good when it is accomplished.