I have a cute first grade boy that showed up to class today wearing green glow-in-the-dark vampire teeth. I told him he looked great, and asked him to put the teeth in his backpack until recess at the end of the day. I watched him put the teeth away. Yet every time I looked at him throughout the day, he was wearing the teeth. I would watch him put them back in his backpack, and then find him wearing them again later. (normally I would have collected the teeth and given them back at the end of the day, but for one thing, I didn't want to touch them, and for another thing, due to a sub shortage, I had 32 children in my room instead of my usual 20. It was a pick-your-battle kind of day.) He just cracked me up all day with those teeth- just like Max from Max and Ruby, when I least expected it, he would smile at me with those crazy teeth! He has special needs, so I just couldn't get upset with him, and it did bring some humor into a crazy day! And at least he wasn't backflipping off his chair or the bathroom sink today! Maybe the teeth should come back another day!
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