Kindergoblins

All day today, I was looking forward to teaching Kindergarten. I was right to be excited. Highlights of the class period.

• One of the students, lets call him Edwin, laughing every time he deliberately disobeyed me and running around the room instead of going to time out (I am excited to see him learn).
• Feeling like the most rotton person in the world when I made one of them cry (I took her ruler away because she wasn't listening).
• Having to take a bathroom break for the last 5 minutes of class because when one has to go, they all have to go.
• Spending 10 minutes trying to get Edwin to unlock himself out of the bathroom stall. When another student in the hallway started acting up, I just gave up and waited for his teacher to arrive.
• Laughing with her as she tried to persuade him to get out:

Miss Daughterty: Edwin! Would you open the door please?

Edwin: NO! HAHAHAHAHAHA (a demonic laugh)

Miss Daughterty: This isn't funny Edwin! Open the door right now!

Edwin: (more demonic laughter)

While I watched the restless kindergarteners in the hallway, Miss Daughterty found a responsible looking 4rd grade boy to crawl under the stalls and unlock the door.

• Having a 5th grade student stop in the hallway to look at the kindergarteners and say, "oh! aren't they just the cutest things ever."