Simon Says

After the morning classes I went to the high school to meet the students I'll be working with starting in March. They seem great, I'm excited!
But when my middle schoolers found out, they were not happy.
Student: "What do you mean you're only here until March?"
Student: "If we promise to be really good for you all the time, will you stay the whole year?"
Student: "I can't believe you're leaving us for the whole day, not cool."
I'm guessing this is a sign that leaving them in March will be hard.

Student: "Do you have a boyfriend Miss C?"
Me: "Nope."
Student: "That's ok, I still think you're pretty."

Later on some of the students were talking about some singer and asked if I had heard of her before. I had no idea who they were talking about so I said no. Then they started talking about other singers and Usher came up.
Student: "Wait, you do know who Usher is right?"
Me: "No, who's that?" joking of course
Student: "That's probably why you don't have a boyfriend."

Student: "I wished you would have coached our basketball team, I mean, its not like its rocket science."

The Access class (basically like a home room class) was off the walls today. They were almost as bad as some of my preschool classes over the summer. I tried a few things but they didn't work. So I resulted to good ol' Simon Says. It worked like a charm.
"Simon Says stop talking. Simon Says finish Step Three on your own."
Lesson of the day: seventh graders aren't much different than preschoolers...just a little taller with more hormones.