Maybe you can judge a book by its cover

When I'm checking books out to students I often have a stack of books beside me on the desk that need to be returned to the shelves. One day while I was checking out books to 1st grade I had one of the Goosebumps books beside me. One of my students was looking at the book while waiting.  He then announce....

"Wow that books like the bible!"

I myself would never think to describe a book with a zombie on the cover as being similar to Holy Scripture.  I can only assume that as a student who still reads books with less then 20 pages that he was basing his comment on size and not content.

Edwina Scissorhands visits the Library

I learned a long time ago it's better to wait until later in the school year to break out anything that involves glue or scissors with kindergarten. Well we have been in school for over two months and I figured it was safe to bring them out. I was almost wrong.

Our page today had a few pictures to cut out and glue to the page.  I spent a few minutes going over the page so they would know what to cut and where to glue it. We also discussed scissor rules.  No cutting hair, skin, clothes.  We only use the scissors to cut the pages Mrs. Honey tells us to.  Then I let everyone get started and I began to walk around the tables and make sure everyone was on task.

I made it to my last table and almost had a heart attack.  The little girl at that table did have very think bangs.  She didn't anymore!  Her bangs were very badly butchered.  You could tell that she had cut her own bangs.  The problem was I didn't look real close before she came in and I didn't know if they were like that before she got to my class. I started checking on the floor for clumps  of hair.  I didn't see any so I finally got brave enough to ask.

Mrs. Honey,  "Andrea, did you cut your own bangs?"

Andrea, "Yes"

Mrs. Honey,  " Did you cut them at home?"

Andrea,  "Yes"

I breathed a sign of relief knowing they were not cut on watch. We may need to put the scissors back up until after Christmas, just to be on the safe side!