Oh my gosh. My students are driving me crazy. Aren't they supposed to get more independent and mature as the year rolls on? I am seeing the complete opposite happen. It's like they've reverted back to kindergarten students. I must have been infiltrated with at least 100 different questions today. "Mrs. M. - can we start now?" "Mrs M. - is this for homework?" "Mrs M. - I can't remember my computer password " "Mrs. M. - what do I do now?" What absolutely KILLS me is that I had already addressed all these issues with them. AND I have made the classroom as transparent as possible so that the answers to all these trivial questions are all around them if they would just LOOK - on the board, on our posted daily schedule, on the homework board, on the word wall, on the anchor charts, in their group pencil bins. If they would just stop and think for a moment before coming to me they would realize the answer is all around them. AND some of these things should be so routine for them. I mean, come on! All year they've known to finish up other work or read silently if they finish their independent work early. What has happened? The warm weather and the not-so-distant end of the school year must be mucking up their brains.

Don't get me wrong - It's not like I'm some hermit teacher that doesn't want their students to ask them anything. Have trouble with your long division? Sure - ask me! Don't know what page number we're working on? Don't ask me - look on the board! My job is to TEACH, not spoon feed.

Ugh.

I will have to have a big talk with them about this Monday morning. I still have all their voices ringing in my head. Not a good way to start this beautiful weekend.

Deep breath.

And...

my rant is over.

Happy weekend, folks.