There are so many entries that I would be writing but honestly, I just don't want to do anything when I come back from work. Ever since Thanksgiving week, the kids have been acting increasingly crazy, and not just the kids in our DARTS program but all over the school. You can notice it from the morning because they just seem so much more restless as they're sitting at the lunch tables or in the way they talk to each other... it's like something's in the air and they're going stir crazy.
I can't go into specifics about stuff that goes on, but last friday we had two fights happen our classroom and multiple student meltdowns every day. At this point, all my coworkers in the program are counting down the days to break this Friday.
There are definitely bright spots throughout the day, so not everything is a downer. During freetime last week after mock testing, I got to work with one of my students in building a popsicle stick ship. As we were working on it, he was explaining that because he was starting an E.T club (extra terrestrial), he wanted to build a ship to hold a tape recorder that would test to see if there were any strange activity happening in a pond near his home. I found that hilarious, but of course you can't show negative reactions so I nodded along and asked him on specifics on his boat design. Over the next couple hours, we kept adding different things to it and eventually it actually turned out really well! I'll try to take a picture of it tomorrow, but it was really tight and it actually floats!
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