Free Armpit

When students enter my classroom on the first day of school I tell them that I am the strictest, but funniest teacher they will ever have.  It is true.  The minus chart comes out first thing in the morning when checking homework.  As the day progresses I lighten up a little... until reading or Bible.  Today I was caught in my own humor and it just wouldn't stop.

Walls classroom rules and "unspokens:"

1.  Don't tell me to wait.

2.  You may "ding" if you hear a simile or a vocabulary word read out loud.

3.  If you say something at the same time... instead of "jinx" you may say "Nancy Drew" (don't ask), or now it is "Bob Barker".

4.  That rule doesn't apply during Bible.

5.  When you raise your hand really fast I can call "free armpit" and someone near you may poke your armpit if they dare.

6. If you forget your name on your paper you have to do 5 "fairy jumps."

7.  10 pushups if you didn't write in cursive.

8.  I am allowed to wear my jail socks as many times as I want.

I have dug my own hole!  Every rule was in use at the same time today!

I literally had to say "stop dinging"  which brought on a whole new realm of laughter.

I have had the same  students for almost 2 years.  The days seem endless.  We laugh a lot... lately, though, if you add in the hormones and the jr. high attitudes.... well, now you know why I'm crazy!