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?

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I’m not sure who in our county checks the calendar to decide when to have the county fair, but I sure wish that they wouldn’t schedule it during a full moon.

Each year, we have the lovely experience of having fair week and a full moon happening at around the same time. I don’t know about your students, but my students just cannot handle all of that excitement. The moon is doing its usual craziness, and then you have the fair with its rides and splendor.

Follow all of that up with Halloween right around the corner.

I feel extra tired today.

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