Think positive

I need to do this. All the time. At least once every hour. Positive thoughts. So here we go. Positives from the week so far.....DISCLAIMER! Some of these might start out negative but turn positive. Just bare with me.....

1-Monday was a day for sure. Desks were thrown, chairs were thrown, I was cussed out, and students were chatty. BUT a student who has literally never had a good day, a student who is so bossy and obsessive about what others are doing that he never actually does anything correctly himself. HE WAS AMAZING! Legit one of my favorite kids that day. I have never been so proud of him.

2-Tuesday......I found out I was going to have some vice principals from other school in our district coming into my class to observe my kids. If that didn't put enough pressure on me, one of my most special friends decided to have the most elaborate fit of all time only 15 minutes before they were suppose to be in my room. He deeeeeeeeeestroyed his desk and the surrounding area. Flipped the desk and multiple chairs, threw the contents of his desk alllllll over and screamed that I was an "idiot teacher who teaches boring stupid math that I aint gonna do!". This was during a math test mind you......so we ignored him and let him get all his angries out. After a while he just started to cry sitting in the middle of his destruction. I walked over and took his hand and had him sit by my feet while I taught. He eventually calmed himself down and decided that it was a good idea to go pick up his desk. HE MADE THIS CHOICE ON HIS OWN! So he cleaned it up and came back to my feet. Right then, the VPs walked in. Praise Jesus on this timing! THEN to make things even more wonderful my kids rocked the math lesson that was being watched and gave the most amazing answers to very deep thinking questions, after one answer I think I actually said "that answer was the most beautiful thing I have ever heard...." with baby tears in my eyes.....I'm sure that these vice principals think Im some kind of quack...whatever I don't even care my kids rocked!!!!

3-Wednesday-One of my team mates was out today and didn't have a sub so myself and the other 1st grade teacher split her kids up into our rooms, we each had about 8 or 9 extra kids. THATS A LOT! However, they were great! The day could have totally crumbled around our feet but it didn't! THATS A WIN!

4-My special friend had a royal fit today because he didn't want to do something. Screaming, crying, kicking, hitting and serious angry face going on...we were in the office to call mom and I was holding him on my lap while our secretary called mom. She got mom on the phone and he refused to talk to her. Like straight up reeeeeefused. Then, as if he wasn't already spiraling, he got worse. Here is the positive! I was able to calm him down. If you don't want to hear me brag about myself a little then dont read on :) This little man screamed at me, like so loud I thought my ear drums were going to bleed. I never lost my cool, I kept asking him calmly to tell me what he wanted instead of screaming it at me. After 5 times of this HE TOLD ME AND DIDNT SCREAM! I was so excited. Then I asked him to go sit in the corner AND HE DID! Like I was so so so so happy :)

Sometimes the best positives come out of a negative. You just have to make it through the yucky to get to the happy!