You might be a teacher if.......

1. You obsessively count the number of kids with you at all times to make sure you haven't lost anyone.

2. On any outing, even with adults, you ask if everyone has been to the potty before you leave.

3. Your wardrobe includes a decorative sweater for all major holidays.

4. Your shoe collection is reduced to two pairs of identical, sensible flats. One brown pair and one black pair. (If you ever accidentally wear one brown shoe and one black shoe and don't realize your mistake until the end of the day, you might be ready for a mental health day!).

5. You truly believe that hand sanitizer can cure any ailment.

6. You want everything to come in equal numbers so that they can be divided up into buddies, with none left out.


I will be adding to this list as I go along. If you have any suggestions please mention them in the comments.

Spoiler Alert

One of my pet peeves is when kids yell out and ruin a good story. So I decided to make something visual to remind the kids not to ruin a story. I found mini milk jugs at the grocery store and bought five of them. One for each table. Then my family drank the milk. I experimented with different ways to make "fake" milk. I found that if you mix white school glue with water, it looks just like milk. So I put just a little "fake" milk in each jug and made a sign that I taped on the side that says "please don't spoil the story." Then I had a lesson where we talked about what it means to spoil a story. Now if someone spoils a story, they get one of the milk jugs put on their table. If your table has a milk jug, everyone on that table has to go last. If every table gets a milk jug then that class does not get to do the fun stuff that I plan for the end of their class time. We did this for practice this week and all I had to do was hold it up and shake it if someone forgot. I had very few interruptions.