patience....

I LOVE my class this year...however...there are a few who need to be bent into shape..Ms. Rupp style!  In particular there is this one girl who has been on my last nerve the past couple of days.  She's smart....I'll give her that....but apparently with that comes a manipulative little brat.  Yes I said it!  I at first thought she may be one of my favorites...she's got a little spunk...and that's one of my favorite attributes.  I think she's the cutest thing when she acts how a first grader should act.  The first week was normal...she was just a normal girl....with very involved parents.  Then all of the sudden out pops this girl who cries ALL morning..how she's missing her dad and she wants to go home.  She is extremely dramatic....and has an excuse for EVERYTHING!  She acts as if she has to go to the bathroom...then "pretends" to throw up so I'll send her to the nurse so she can go home.  The day starts off like this:  Me in a soothing voice:  It'll be ok....just sit and calm down....think about how we are going to have a great day....all your friends are sitting nice....they are being brave and coming to school....acting like first graders.....then..somewhere after 2 hours of hysterical crying...mixed in with arguing coming from a little 6 year old I sound something like this:  sit down....stop crying....and you ARE NOT..going home!  If you don't stop crying you will move your star and get a note home....and thankfully this eventually makes her stop.  I don't know if I can handle much more.  Today...she stopped around 11:10...yesterday her dad kept her home because she "threw up"...and monday she stopped crying around 12:00  Today she pulls out this picture of her mom and dad...so she won't be sad...(big eye roll)...I am about done!  I know that parents will do anything to make their kid happy..but maybe she just needs to be told..you need to stop acting like a kindergartener....get it together...stop crying....and get to work.  Enough is enough! Whew...sorry..just had to vent....otherwise...good day today! :)

Day 11:  A picture of someone who has gotten you through the most in your life

Whenever I need anything advice, comfort, someone to fight with...LOL..I call her-my mom!  In this picture we  are at sea world waiting for the famous shamu to come out! I <3 her!!!!