After a week of filling in as a gym teacher, a principal and a Grade Five French Immersion teacher, here are a few interactions worth sharing. I think so, anyway!
I helped a little fellow in Grade 2 clean up his dinner tray, after his chocolate milk had spilled. He says, "You're nice". I reply "Aren't all teachers nice?"
He pauses, then comments, "Yeah, but...... some I like more than others." Future diplomat there, DEFINITELY!
A sweet little Kindergartener comes up and says, "'Mme D., I kindly asked Sally not to play with Anna and me today". My question was, "How would you feel if someone said that to you, even IF they said it kindly?" Her reply? "Well, she ISN'T kind, and we're getting tired of it!" I honestly had to ponder that a few seconds, before I found the right words to address that remark. Little ones can be very wise.
Another Grade Two sweetheart, when I commented on their lovely posters, offered this comment "Well, this is a group project, but TECHNICALLY, Ethan is doing all the work!" They were drawing posters for a fundraiser for Lesotho, which they pronounced Lesutu. I declared that I had always pronounced that word with the letters "o" as "o". One little one in the group leans over to another little girl and says, "She's a French person." Well, I guess THAT explains my mis prononciation of that word!
This last story occurred during a Social Studies class, again in Grade Two, where I read the kids a book about how things have changed over the last fifty years - ie, cars, TVs, computers, etc. There were many photos, which I shared with them. On the last page were pictures of three items from the Fifties. I showed the class the first one, of a radio, and asked them if they knew what that object was. In almost perfect unison, they all chimed "A TOASTER!"
lol
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