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Dalis

Dalis

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Today was OPEN HOUSE at Bianca's school. We got in the room 40 mins late because her allergy testing ended up 1hr LATER than expected (another story for another time). We get in her classroom and there is another mom giving me a permanent marker and telling me I can use it and start labeling all the colored pencils. I literally laugh and tell her "good one", I thought she was kidding.

I read the instructions in Bianca's desk.
1- Using the permanent marker on your desk label every single pencil, color pencil, crayon, glue stick, erasers, etc... with your kid's initials.

I am still labeling when the principal of the school starts announcing that the open house is ending in 5 mins. I started laughing and finally Bianca whispers to me: "I really hope it goes better for me on my first day of school". At this time now I am snorting and can't breath, I think the teacher saw it clearly labeled in us "trouble makers". :giggle

So tell me your first day or open house story.
 
HA!!!! :giggle I can totally see the teacher being a little nervous about you two being trouble makers :)
 
Gosh, that stinks Dalis! Open houses are such a joke to me. I want a be here at this time, we will do a short presentation, and then you can talk afterwards if you need to. It works sooooo much better. And this isn't coming from a mama on her soapbox, I used to teach 5th grade.
 
LOL! Ya know... I am a real rebel. I don't even bother to follow the rules anymore. We don't label anything.

I have been through the first day of school thing only a handful of times, but each time the instructions state that every single thing needs to be labeled. I have tried it all. From cute printed stickers to hand writing. Not once have my kids ended up with their own labeled supplies. I don't get it! LOL! What is the point? At the end of school when supplies were brought home - mostly used composition books and such... there was a nice arrangement of scribbled out names found on the back of everything in our pile. Not one single item contained my kids' names. :giggle
 
Lol!!!

This will be my first time with all of this, so I just hope they don't have us labeling things when we get there. Let me know ahead of time or something.

Trista, you know you scare me with your school supply stories..lol!
 
Ha ha! That's pretty funny. I don't label crayons or markers, but I do use my label maker for things like the headphones they have to take and bigger more expensive items. My oldest has done a pretty good job at bringing home what belongs to him at the end of each year, but my youngest went through about 100 pencils last year. I kept asking him where they went and he said they just rolled of his desk and got lost, but I suspect that I was the only one actually restocking pencils so all his friends were "sharing" his stash. Good thing pencils are so cheap!
 
Seriously? Every crayon? What happened to just putting them in a plastic bin with a label?
 
Oh boy, Dalis...you are going to be "that mom" lol. My kids thought their supplies and clothes were for bartering. They would trade and give away all their supplies and I would end up shopping within weeks of school starting. I can still remember the day my youngest daughter came home from school with no shoes. She traded them for something at lunch time LOL.
 
I have to say that I hope this fixes the problem of stuff disappearing, like Bianca didn't bring ANYTHING back last year. No pencil box, no headphones (good headphones), NOTHING. She brought NOTHING back from school.
 
Funny. We've gotten mixed messages at school. In Kindergarten we labeled everything and were told it wasn't necessary because everything is community property. They just through it all together and distribute as needed. So of course I didn't label anything for first grade and the teacher was like "Didn't you write her name on anything?" Can't win!
 
Ashley, Every teacher has her own rules. I get the communal thing about markers and stuff, but then the headphones were not. Of course she also was missing 3 snack boxes during the year, they just disappear.
 
They stopped labeling stuff here, and they just dump it all together. Far less stressful. lol
 
Okay first of all... WHAT!? Welcome to your classroom now get to work! That's just crazy. Second of all... that's hilarious that you are now the troublemakers! LOL Watch out!
 
I am envisioning Dalis and her daughter marking the pencils with wrong labels...and giggling over it...now they are sheepishly walking to principals office..but slyly sneaking knowing rebel glances at each other!
 
I would never label crayons...I would've laughed too, lol! I really loved our teachers open house, but my kiddo is the type that needs to know where everything is before she gets there! Hope Bianca's first day goes well! Ours is tomorrow.
 
AnneofAlamo said:
I am envisioning Dalis and her daughter marking the pencils with wrong labels...and giggling over it...now they are sheepishly walking to principals office..but slyly sneaking knowing rebel glances at each other!
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I think the teacher thought we were being funny because we were labeling everything BIT, but those are seriously Bianca's initials.


lauracw said:
I would never label crayons...I would've laughed too, lol! I really loved our teachers open house, but my kiddo is the type that needs to know where everything is before she gets there! Hope Bianca's first day goes well! Ours is tomorrow.
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Ours is on Thursday, good luck Laura!
 
Dalis, everything is community property here. They dump it all together. I would rather be able to have my kids have there own stuff. Well, Gavin anyway. Noah is old enough to keep up with his stuff. Gavin is in 1st grade and they just put it all in a big thing and everyone uses. He never has anything left and usually we have to buy more or he is missing stuff. It is crazy. This year we don't even know who his teacher is yet until we get to the school because they have decided not to send out letters. So, when we get to open house there will be signs on the wall with the kids names and the teachers. That is how we find out. That isn't how they used to do it. This should be interesting. I did giggle and laugh at you having to put Bianca's initial on all of the crayons, pencils, etc. I don't think they would make us do that here, but you never know. :giggle #troublemakers
 
btw. they are not regular crayons they are fancy crayons.

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