inertia and wet tweens

so many funny things happened today:

1- we're discussing inertia and how if something it moving it is not ever going to move unless a force acts on it. and i say that that is a part of how a magician is able to pull a tablecloth from underneath a bunch of dishes.... those dishes are staying put. sweet zachary scrinches up his face, raises his hand, and asks "dr. larson, does that mean that magicians are scientists?" i laughed incredibly hard incredibly loud and then apologized and said "no."

2- i was walking around the classroom checking work for the lab we were doing. i walked up to justin, and he put his head down and started muttering "oh no... oh no... oh no," which struck me as odd since he was not doing anything wrong. as i started talking to him, i realized why he was muttering that. his phone gives him a warning vibrate before it starts ringing, and as i walked towards him his phone started vibrating. it then full-on started ringing, i put out my hand, he handed me his phone, and i answered it. i said hello to the woman calling, who then apologized when she realized she had the wrong number. poor justin lost his phone for the day cus of that lady's wrong number.

3- i have been doing math races (100 problems in 1 minute) to start class and the kids are freaking out loving it. i try to distract them the entire time by whispering their names, tapping their desks, counting down the seconds, whatever. i now have decided to stop kids that go over the time limit by squirting them in the face with water. like cats. today i gave one of my classes a general shower, but when the drill ended in my last class, i squirted soren straight in the face for about 5 seconds. he and his math drill were soaked. thankfully, he started giggling super hard and dried off relatively quickly. this also was the class that told me they had written a rap song about significant figures. i then told them about nerdcore rap and they lost their minds. to top off the class, nathan made a comment about soren being from michigan, i told nathan to watch his mouth because i was from wisconsin, to which the class all went "oooooohhhhh" and sweet erica said "oh nathan, you just got zing-figged." zing-figged. holy shit did i laugh.

4- simon, awesome simon, has started calling me miss dr larson. i laughed the first time he said it, and i think he called me that about 20 times today.

5- i also have told my classes that if i catch them with gum they are no longer spitting it into my hand. they are putting it on their nose for the rest of class.