What a Week!!

This has been probably one of the most interesting weeks at school. My students brighten my life each day that I work with them. They are truely amazing and I am so lucky to have such a great bunch! So, as many of you know, we are preparing like crazy for the state test coming up. I was working with two of my students that will be taking the test, and the first graders were working on a journal with my assistant. As I go to the garbage can, I glance at my VERY hyperactive student because she was being very quiet and that is not like her. As I am looking at her, I notice that there is blood EVERYWHERE, so what do I do scream! She was not crying or anything until I hollered. I run to grab as many Kleenex as possible. As I gather my thoughts, I asked her what happened, and she said, "I was trying to sharpen my pencil and I stuck my finger in it." So then, I am freaking out more because I can only imagine what it looks like underneath all of the blood. Needless to say, she cut a HUGE chunk of meat out of her index finger, and they wrapped it in a big bandage. She has walked around all week saying "E.T. come home!" Today, we were doing an experiment with magnets and one of the students, who receives speech therapy, kept calling them maggots! I told my assistant great she is going to go home and tell her mom and dad that we played with maggots at school. There is never a dull moment in room 9! Hopefully, we will breeze through tomorrow without anymore accidents.