Grimm(way) Fairytales Edition 5 9/22/17

Grimm(way) Fairytales 

Edition 5 

9/22/2017

Not a lot to write about this past week. I guess one can say it was a slow week. 

1).    On Monday, as I sat on a bench near the playground, I was talking with some scholars as we were waiting for the bell to ring to start the day. I am constantly amazed at what runs through the minds of children. A couple of students ran up to me and pointed their fingers at each other and said, almost simultaneously, “she called me a dork.”

“So, are you bragging or complaining?”  I guess that must have really confused them because they both just stared at me utterly baffled. Finally, they looked at each other, started giggling and ran off together arm in arm. I turned to another girl who was sitting on the bench beside me listening to the entire exchange of elementary verbiage, and asked her if she was a dork.

“No! I’m not a dork…I'm a 4th grader!”

I guess once you pass the 3rd grade, you grow out of the dorkness stage?

2)     I had the opportunity of substituting for Candyce Miller one day this past week so she could attend an IEP meeting. She gave her students a very interesting writing assignment. Apparently, she told them that she was going to have to leave for awhile and explained to them that their assignment was to write out in complete sentences where they thought she was going, who she was going to be with, and what she was going to be doing.

I was reminded, as I took the opportunity of reading through some of their essays, that many times students just assume that everyone knows what they are thinking and that everything is connected, and we all “get it” and it all makes sense.

One little girl wrote, “Mrs. Miller zoomed out of the classroom and went to Disneyland…or Kansas…or maybe Spain.” Now I have no idea what the connection is, but to this young lady, it was all perfectly understandable.

3)     One of the cutest interactions of the week occurred between Katelyn Prosser and a lunch scholar. Mrs. Prosser was assisting Chef Anna as she met with a member of the health department. Katelyn was scanning the scholars lunch tickets when a young man approached her and emphatically asked, “Do you know what you're doing?” 

Katelyn stifled her outwardly humor and simple said, “Yes, I think I pretty well have it.”

Without skipping a beat, the boy affixed his gaze upon her and said, “Have you even practiced?”

Katelyn miraculously held her own and simple answered with a, “Yep, Chef Anna gave me some pointers before she left.”

With that, he seemed satisfied and continued to his seat.

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Until next week.