New Do

My wonderful stylist at Shannon Alexsandr Salon (Justine Brock) dyed my hair on Thursday to get me all Fallified. It ended up being darker than I had expected, but I was willing to give it a chance. My students on the other hand were not so sure. From the minute that the kiddos walked into school on Friday morning, the talk of the third grade hallway was my new-do. Mrs. Bowman dyed her hair, Mrs. Bowman has new hair. .  the kids were going crazy, all because of my hair.

Here are some of the hair quotes.

"Mrs. Bowman...is that permanent...is it permanent...is it permanent...is it permanent?" (One of my students during a Math lesson. After he asked me four times, I realized that ignoring him wasn't going to work.) Finally I said, "No it isn't." and he said, "Whew...so it'll change back in a few weeks?" So I said, "No...Don't you like it." "Eh, good enough," he said.

"Mrs. Bowman, I  thought yo hair was mixed!"

Really sweet (normally) little girl in Mrs. Zeller's room, "Mrs. Bowman, why did you dye your hair. It looked good before. Now it looks a little bit more horrible."

Uh wow. . .
Let's just say that it was quite the distraction throughout the day.

Let's also say that I may just have had Justine add a few highlights.

Oh, School!

Everything is moving so crazy and so fast and I need to blog so that I do not forget every single thing about my first year of teaching. By the way, I left school at six, and I so could have stayed 'till eight. Blugh. I guess this is what being a first year of teacher is all about . . . So here goes:

Funny Story:
-I'm pretty sure that one of my student's medicine wears off by the end of the day. He can't resist talking and is constantly calling out, bouncing around, and just acting plain silly. The special ed. teacher who teaches Math with me told him that if he wasn't good she was going to send him over to "Jalilpourland" (This is the name of another third grade teacher who for some reason the kids sort of fear, from stories I guess) The teacher also told him that Mrs. Jalilpour was his very worst nightmare. He responded by saying that she couldn't possibly be his very worst nightmare, because last night he had had a nightmare about a ghost chasing him around and trying to kill him, and that had to be worse.


Sweet Moment: 
Mrs. Bowman, I love literacy centers, especially the reading center, because I get to spend it with you.
Seeing the looks on my kids faces when they all understood a concept we were working on in Math and 



Lesson Learned: 
-If a kid says he needs to go to the bathroom, think long and hard about if you should left him go or not, before saying "no...."