Students' observation superpower

At the high school level though, they definitely just want an excuse to get out of work for a few minutes haha. Oh you lost your pen? Let me be the best student ever while devoting the rest of this class period trying to find it!!! Ha. But normally they know exactly where your stuff is. "Where is my coffee?!" "You left it over here Mrs. Fitz." Best little stinkers ever.

Students are always paying attention to details. Not the academic details of course, those are no fun. But personal details. I mentioned I liked turtles my first year of teaching and the next day a student brought me a live turtle (carried it into school in his backpack, all between his books and notes,) and that is how our class pet Pyro came about 6 years ago!

"Pyro is the G.O.A.T." -student

I worked orientations at my school last week, and I had my phone sitting on the table and I was so surprised how many students commented about how I had gotten a new phone over summer break! Ha. One student told me once that my nail polish didn't match my outfit. Students are extremely observant. It's like a superpower that they have.

Now if only we could get them to use that superpower for the academic content of our lessons...

I'M EXCITED FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR, OKAY? GET OVER IT!
Btw, those heels are my students' favorites.