Fish Drama

So a couple of weeks ago we started "Mini Society" at school. My class comes up with their own community...they have their own money, flag, and each student has to create their own business. There are 2 days when they bring their businesses to school and get to sell things to their classmates. Today was our 2nd business day. One of my kids set up a bean bag toss for his business. If you threw 2 beanbags in a bucket you won...a fish! Yes, a live goldfish. Last week the fish were gone within the first 10 minutes of Mini Society. Apparently this was a smart business! This week kids lined up again to try their hand at winning a fish. Well, once all of the fish were won, one of my kids discovered his fish had died. So he did what any business minded 2nd grader would do...he sold it to someone else :). Yes, the student who purchased the fish did realize it was dead. Why did he want a dead fish? He wanted to show his mom. Lucky mom! So at the end of the day my kids all left my room, dead fish and all. I was relieved to see them go. LONG DAY! They'd barely been gone a minute when half my class shows back up telling me that the kid who bought the dead fish had tripped and his fish bag smashed all over the floor. Of course he couldn't have made it another 10 feet to the playground. So I walk out of my classroom and around 50 2nd graders are all gathered in the middle of the hallway staring at this dead fish lying in a puddle on the carpet. Nice. Guess who got to pick up the fish? I never thought that as a teacher I'd have to deal with dead fish...or any fish for that matter :). Guess it was my lucky day! Needless to say, I'm SO glad tomorrow is FRIDAY!!!