Thursday - the day not quite as awesome as Friday

During tutorial today, one of my students jumped up from her chair and covered her mouth. With her mouth still covered, she hurriedly asked if she could go the bathroom.

"Are you going to throw-up?" - Me, going to offer the trash can if she couldn't make it.
"No"
"huh?"
"I'm not sick, I just need to use the restroom" - (hand is still covering her mouth)
"What happened?"
"Nothing..."
"Her pen popped" - third student
other kids just start to notice the conversation
"My pen popped in my mouth" - first student
"WHAT? (barely containing myself). How bad is it?"
"Bad" - hand still on mouth
"Alright, go ahead. But if I had a camera..." - me joking around
"Thanks!" she laughs and rushes off, with her hand still on her mouth.

When she came back, she STILL had blue ink on her face and in her mouth. I sent her to the nurse to get it checked out. She laughed about it... and then continued to use the pen for her work.

My kids are hilarious.

The best/worst fight ever

In my eighth period today, I had to call security on two kids that were going to get in a fight over, of all things... a bookmark.

I had just finished letting the kids pick out a free "Reading is Fundamental" book (school funded) and one of the students picked a pretty hefty book - which was cool because he's not that strong of a reader, but wanted the challenge. He asked if the book was good, and I told him it would be tough, but should be interesting, and so he smiled, and said he definitely wanted it. He then asked me for a bookmark, so I went to my desk to get one. While en route, one of the other kids (also a struggling reader) I guess felt jealous, and made fun of the first kid in Spanish. They both instantly got up and started to take off their coats like they were ready to rumble. I had to physically get in between the kids as my teacher's aide also jumped in between them, and I told her to get a security guard. The instigator tried to push his way through me, which was hilarious as he's probably just shy of 100 pounds. Yeah, you're not going to get anywhere against my frame. Within two minutes both of them were escorted away separately.

At least the kid with the book was allowed to come back and get his work, during which time I stepped outside and talked to him about the situation.

Yep. A pen explosion and a fight over a bookmark. Just about par for a school day.