The kids make it worth it!

The influence we have on children…

This past week was a quick one, but enjoyable none-the-least.

I have a game I play with my kids in my classroom, although most don’t know that I’m doing it.  Sometimes during the day, time seems to drag on.  When this happens I start my game.  I would often go over to my kids and start playing with them.  When they say something, I would say “what?” and they would then repeat it (of course).  I would then ask “What?” again, therefore they repeat…again.   I then look around for a second in bewilderment and ask “What?” again.  And they repeat.  This continues until they eventually give up and say “never mind” or “nothing” or something like that.  So far my record has been having the child repeat 14 times before they gave up. 

But my story continues

On Thursday while my student and I were sitting at the lunch table we started talking.  I really don’t remember what it was about, but that doesn’t matter.  During this conversation with the kids, I had said something as a response to a question.  One of my students says “What?” and I repeat it. He then asks “What?” again.  Of course I repeat it again, thinking he just couldn’t understand me.  But once again…he said “What?”.  This is when I realized what was happening.  I then proceeded to tell him that he was awesome and gave him a high five. It was hilarious that he was doing just what I have been doing. 

A few minutes later I look over to him with another student at the sink where they are brushing their teeth.  He is doing it again to another student! Once the other child gives up he comes back over to me and give me a high five!

It’s amazing how much children actually pay attention to teachers!

Anyways, so this past week we got a ton of snow and the wind was not helpful.  Who would have thought snow drifts could be such a pain?!  When I got home each day this week I had a ton of snow in front of my door that I had to wade through in order to get inside. I guess I’ll look at the positive in this…a lot of exercise in shoveling snow!  Also, its amazing the workout you get while walking a mile in snow…

2 Weeks until I’m in Washington!!!!