Could this be her "Aha!" moment?

Mr. Hatcher, Mr Hatcher! A spink is a waterfall!!!!

If this were not the most obnoxious child ever running to give me this wonderful piece of information, I would have enjoyed it much more. However, the more I have thought about that short encounter from earlier today, the more I realize what a great piece of material it is. After my initial confusion (don't bug me when I am prepping work and you are supposed to be independently reading), I had to sit down and think why I should know slash care what a spink was in the first place. And this girl knows I'm not her biggest fan, at least for today. But no, here she comes, running to my desk with a giant smile on her face. The same smile I ask her to get rid of when I am trying to discipline her. No, this one is slightly different. She actually feels good about something. She isn't just being obnoxious.

I realize after I send her to her seat, she had come to me last week asking me what a spink was because it came up in her reading. As I have not read every book in the class library (shocking!), I gave her the great teacher line of "Why don't you read on to find out?" Apparently this is what she has done. And to think I thought she never read.

I guess the real test now is whether or not a spink really is a waterfall. Anyone read Pippi in the South Seas?

Also, Kleenex Boy has been without meds for awhile now I think. Anytime I had my back to the class today he would jump up to the unoccupied desk in the classroom and do a little arabesque/acrobatic move. And he and Smelly Feet were the only ones who voted for a Disturbia dance party. Too bad. I was actually kind of looking forward to that.

*Sidenote: Someone outside my apartment is going up and down the street yelling "GilBERT?"* !!!!