Change

Well, sadly enough the district informed me that they were pulling "Bear" out of my classroom. I had very mixed emotions about this change, but most of all, I was concerned with what I would do with her kids. A few months in the year. They gave me an aide to replace and help. Well...the first aide was a very very strange lady to say the least and was definitely not much help. She was older and struggled working with the kids. When I asked her to take a few minute to introduce herself, she pulled out a 50 page book on her family history. and proceeded to go through it page by page talking about her grandparents ---I finally had to stop her to move on. To be honest...she was more work than help. It wasn't much longer that I got another aide. This time it was a 65 year old man who weighed around 300 lbs. A big teddy bear. He was better than the first aide, and worked hard, but was more like a student then an aide. He would get the kids all wound up and would throw them over his shoulder.

One funny story about my second aide was one Wednesday morning while the kids were at library. He was helping me hang some things outside my classroom. He went to put something into his pocket and realized that his pants were on backwards. We both laughed really hard and I could tell that he was embarrassed. He quickly went into the bathroom to change before the kids came back.