Wow, um, I just looked at this and realized that my last post was over a month ago!  Wow, time really flies! Life has been busy, how has it been for you?

Yesterday, as we were finishing morning meeting and moving to our desks for math, suddenly, there were a bunch of kids pointing their fingers behind my chair (labeled “chair”, with a picture) and cries of “Cucaracha!  Cucaracha!”

Oh jeez, this is my favorite way to start a Wednesday.  I know this will become a big deal, and the class will continue freaking out over this bug, which is pretty big and scurrying pretty fast past the whiteboard.

So, I pulled off my sturdy Target teacher shoe from my right foot and whapped that unsuspecting cucaracha a few times. Some kids examined it.  I gave it another whap for good measure.

“Ms. Linnea killed the cucaracha!  Three cheers for Ms. Linnea!”

And I think the whole class listened just a little bit more than usual that day.  Actually, it was a pretty good day overall.