This whole teaching thing

Is going really well. My kids are doing so much better! They crack me up everyday! I feel good that at least I have a job where laughing takes up a majority of my day.  So the other day some of my boys were having a hard time sitting still on the carpet.  I was doing some word blending, I would say /f/ /irst/...and they would say "first"...words like that.  I started doing words that were about them like their "name" and then /n/ /eeds/, /t//oo/ , /s/ /it/, /d/ /own/...like that...I had them roaring laughing so I said, after I did a good one, "oh, Mrs. Dizon is on fire" ...I meant like on a roll...They wanted to do one for me...so I did /m/ /ises/ /d//izons/ ....and two boys call out "on fire!!!" ...all day I heard "Mrs. Dizon's on fire!"....then the next morning, I let them do their own journal entry in their journals and one boy wrote, MSDIZONESNFYER, and drew a picture that was of me on grass on fire! Good thing I have a good sense of humor! Then....we are writing and we are doing a thank you note to someone in our family.  I modeled one first and did mine to my brother, Clay.  So I showed them by writing "Dear Clay,".  When they were finally ready to do it on their own I put up on the board, Dear______, and they copied it, each putting in the person who they were writing to, "mom", "dad", "ante", etc. Then I wrote "Thank you for _________.
Love, ___________".  When we were finished I went back in and wrote my letter to Clay.  After I did this I went around to approve their final copy so they could decorate it.  I was surprised to see about half the class had "Dear Mom Clay," "Dear NT Clay," and some had even erased their writing and then wrote "Dear Clay," it was hilarious.  I had to have everyone freeze and tell them, if you wrote "Clay", please erase it, you don't have a brother named Clay! hahah