How many syllables in "pineapple?" "That's Scourngebob's house!"

Don't worry, it IS possible to get sent home from school TWICE in the same day. One infamous student was sent home today, sometime before 9 a.m. In fact...my literacy advisor was in observing my whole group instruction this morning and he was acting up on the rug, so she pulled him from the rug and made him sit by her. Well, this didn't phase him to say the least. He continued to act out and either not pay attention to me, or just shout out answers and act a fool. At times she would tell him to be quiet and whatnot, but he didn't care what she said. He would slide off the chair, and stare at the door, and literally do whatever he wanted. She was at her wits end when he laid on the floor in front of the door and ripped the paper off the door along with my public tracker about the letters that each student knows. The life help therapist came in and took him and he went home. Only to surprise me at 12:15 like an early morning alarm clock and show up at school again, this time with his dad. This is the first time I met his dad...he just moved back from Texas and I truly hope this is the change this little boy needs in his life. He is getting worse and worse. I was happy he came back to school because he hadn't STARTED his 9 weeks test for math (because it is in the afternoon and he never makes it that long in the day) that I administered to the rest of the class last week. Well, we went and took the test, he went back to the room while I went to pick up some copies and lo and behold, he starts to show out ONCE AGAIN. He walked out of the room on my assistant twice (Big No-No). Then I came in....got him working on the worksheet he missed. I went to ask a question down the hall and all of a sudden I see him bouncing off the walls on his way down the hallway thinking life is hilarious. He left the room AGAIN. Without the play-by-play, he went to the office...then ended up back in the classroom until someone came to get him...then he started throwing pencils and picked up a chair (luckily it wasn't airborne) and ended his behind in the back seat on my Principal's car with a personal escort home. How much science and social studies instruction do you think I got through this afternoon?? Not much...obvs.

Tomorrow is our pumpkin patch field trip!! I'm so excited but sooo freaking nervous! I just want them to act decent! ALL day we went over the rules and expectations of our field trip. It's an all day affair which could be good or could be bad. I'm going to bring some rope, I have a feeling that several of them will need to be on a makeshift leash. Oh I'm kidding...I'm not bringing rope...only yarn. The one little boy that I wrote about previously, the one that runs around the room and ignores each and every word out of my mouth...well, his momma told me today he wasn't going to be able to come because it cost too much. Of course I feel bad...this is the only time these kids are going to have the opportunity to do something like this...my principal doesn't think he needs to go because he has been in trouble lately...but he is coming, I say so! I might regret this decision tomorrow, we shall see. His situation is that IF he really should be on medicine to calm him down...then his actions really are not his fault and he shouldn't be the only one left behind because of that. I take that back, my half-day headache is staying home tomorrow. That was mean, I really do love him, I feel as if I am exhausting my options/ideas for getting him to perform in school.

Ah...hard to believe my dilemmas now lie within the confines of a pumpkin patch field trip and sitting properly on the rug. And hard to believe someone in their right mind would issue me a license to instruction teeny-tiny brains to learn how to read, write, count, all of those valuable skills necessary for success for the remainder of your life...okay, I'm getting ahead of myself...let's take it one day at a time, starting with the pumpkin patch...