I am so proud of myself...

that I stayed calm in my first encounter with blood today. I mean I have had the occasional bloody noses, but none like this one. Recess was just ending and we were lining up to go to an assembly when one of my students walks in with blood dripping out of his mouth. He has his hands cupped to catch the blood and he says to me, "I think I am bleeding." I felt my knees go weak, but then I reacted very well I thought. He must have been in shock because I have never seen him act the way he did. He washed out his mouth with water so that I could see where the blood was coming from. Little did I know that he still had little shreds of tooth in his mouth. He had slipped out on the ice coming in and had consequently bitten a chunk out of his lip and chipped his front tooth in the process.

After cleaning up a little, I took him to the office where he called his mom and I went on to the assembly. Lets hope that I never have anything worse than that happen!