This past week was a rough one. The students started feeling the effects of the full moon days before and for days after. One point, I just stopped and said, “Have y’all lost your minds?”
I’ve grown accustomed to redirecting, but this past week in middle school, I must have said sit down about 45,000 times. I had a student get under my counter. When I told him to get out and go back to his seat, he scooted closer to the wall like I couldn’t see him. Two other boys, when told to go to their seats, sprinted back with one cartwheeling over the top of his desk and the other sliding through his desk and hitting his head on the seat as he went under the desk.
This type of behavior seemed to be the norm. If helping a student, I may look up and see a student climbing on top of my cabinet in the back of the room. Or drinking hand sanitizer from a mini spray bottle (same student who ate bubble solution one day).
It was just a week for weird, in general.
How about you? How did you survive the full moon?
