Why teaching is so stinkin' fun

A few highlights from this week:

-One of my grade two girls telling me with a shy smile: I have a chalkboard at home. Sometimes I pretend I'm a teacher and my teddy bears are my students...and I pretend my name is Mrs. Roberts. Oh wow. My heart=puddle on the floor.

-At random, my grade K-1's will come running up to me, throw their arms around my waist and kiss my belly...it's at the perfect height for that, apparently. This usually is accompanied by a proud: Mrs. Roberts, I kissed your baby! 

-One of my grade two girls coming up to me after recess to announce: Mrs. Roberts, I like TWO boys! Her friends in the immediate vicinity excitedly clarified And she doesn't mean like a friend! She means like LOOOoove! The first little girl just grinned proudly at that and pranced off. Her friends continued to report: Yeah, and she says she wants to KISS them! Like FRENCH KISS THEM!!! Their disgusted faces then turned slightly confused as they asked...Mrs. Roberts, what does french kiss mean?

Go ask your parents that one, I said.

-In our K-1 class we pick a special person each day. They get to be the first in line, etc. When sifting through the names of who would be the special person for that day, one of my little girls, one who can be quite the handful, pled with me: Mrs. Roberts, pick me! Pick me because I like you! I smiled at the effort to convince, and have seriously considered trying it on my husband sometime: Please wash the dishes! Please because I like you!

-In the K-1 class we've been learning about mixing primary colours in science. To reinforce what we'd learned in our past experiments, we had a lesson where we all ate cookies and milk. BUT they could choose whether to make their milk orange, green, or purple. They had to tell me which primary colours to mix in order to make their milk the colour they wanted, a way for me to be able to assess how much they'd retained so far. When I demo-ed what we would be doing with the milk, turning my own into a fabulous shade of green, they thought it was THE COOLEST thing they had ever seen and could not contain their shock and glee. The lesson was a hit, they all gulped down their purple, green, and orange milk...which was a surprise to us all as some of those kids have quite the aversion to drinking liquids, or eating anything unusual. The excitement in their faces was AWESOME.