Weary Bleary

What a day! I have worked the last two nights and I am getting stretched. It was a little rough getting out of bed this morning. However, I was revived when I was doing our morning meeting this morning and one of the girls said, "Mrs. (teacher) I think Miss Smith is ready to just be a teacher now." That pretty much made my day.
Yesterday I had to break out the tough love when we had a conversation about rules on the playground. One of them that we discussed in detail was the fact that when the bell rings, you run for the line. There is no stopping for any more playing, just get to the line. So lunch recess yesterday I was waiting at the door when the bell rang. I gave a five minute penalty (from our fun activity every Friday) to six kids! I was so mad, they know better. Then today coming in from recess we had another type of incident. Two of our students were caught holding hands during reading today. Then we were told that they were kissing on the playground. My teacher pulled them out into the hall to discuss with them the fact that kissing is just not something that is appropriate in school. She asked them what they had been doing and the girl looked at the boy and said, "Do you remember what we were doing??" Then the boy said to her, "Ok, I'll be the one to tell her." I don't know how she could even keep a straight face...haha!
We have a new student which I cannot quite put my finger on. She came to our classroom on the same Monday that I did. She is an ELL student. However, I honestly believe that she functions at a higher level than she prefers to reveal or work at. At times you give her directions and she will just stare at you like she has no idea. I do believe that she knows much more than she shows. It is quite frustrating. Today I tested her on sight words and out of 72 words, she missed 40! I just don't know where to start with her because I am having a difficult time diagnosing what would benefit her the most. Hmm...