Gizmo

Just to give an update Adrian read beautifully today at Mass. As a teacher you sit there and you can do nothing but take a deep breath of relief and smile. For a backup plan I sat at the front of the church today with my readers incase I needed take over with the reading, but thankfully I was not needed.

Today was Friday and on Fridays we bring out the class pet, Gizmo. Gizmo is a grey colored dwarf hamster and loved a little too much. At the beginning of the year, poor Gizmo tolerated a lot from the children constantly waking him. My rule to the children is that we do not wake Gizmo Monday through Thursday. I try to explain that we do not like others waking us during our sleep, so we need to be respectful and let Gizmo sleep during the day because he is nocturnal. On Fridays we will wake Gizmo and play with him, but overall we leave him be unless he is up on his own.

Typically on a usual Friday we will put Gizmo in a ball and let him run around the class, but today I took him out and put him in a giant bin and allowed groups of four children at a time to go and pet him and hold him. I was very pleased with Gizmo, he was very friendly with the children today, he can sometimes be grouchy and go to bite. Before hand I go over how to pet Gizmo, so we do not make him mad. The children sat patiently waiting their turn to go and pet Gizmo.

After Cronius' turn to pet Gizmo, he then says, "Ms. J. may I go wash my hands I think his penis touched me?"

Okay, I'm dealing with a class of children excited to play with Gizmo, so I ask myself did I hear that right? "What was that Cronius?"

"May I go wash my hands I think his penis touched me?"

Yes, my student just said penis and having him repeat it a second time caused another child to overhear and ask, "what did he say?"

"Nothing," I say.

I tell Cronius that is not a word we say in school. You can say that was a close call.