After lunch, the 6th grade band comes to the classroom. The best and worst parts of my day happened in that class period. When they came in, I was still in my office finishing up my lunch. I turned around to see half of the class running as fast as they could through my classroom. I got worried and jumped up to see what was wrong. They were running to their seats and fighting for the front row. I felt like Gwen Stefani. Last summer, I went to the Paramore/No Doubt concert and saw huge crowds of people running to the stage to get a better view of the band, even though they were going to show close ups on the big screens. These kids made me feel like a rockstar. It was great. Unfortunately, the huge mistake happened during this class. Halfway through this class, a bell rings for the start of 7th and 8th grade lunch. Well, this class was going GREAT and I had lost track of time. I heard a bell and released the students. I didn't realize it until my 8th graders dropped by to put their bookbags in the room. They didn't understand why I let my whole class go to 2nd lunch. So, I finally got them all back and we kept going with class. The best part about the whole situation, right before I let them go, I had told them that we all make mistakes and we don't laugh at the person who made the mistake. I told them that I make mistakes all the time and I own up to the mistakes. Well, that was definitely a mistake that I had to own up to. I did learn one thing though (besides to memorize the bell schedule)......take each mistake and learn learn learn. I'll always make them but the process of learning from them comes with experience. I also got to teach the kids that it is ok to laugh about the mistakes, we definitely laughed the rest of class about it.
"All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes."--Winston Churchill
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