Straight from the journals and mouths of my students today…
Our journal prompt: Write about what might happen if you had
hands on your legs instead of feet.
“My hands are going to be on my legs. And my legs are ging
to be on my hands. And my foot is going to be on my head. And my shos would go
on my hands.” (Not sure why your foot is going to be on your head, but
yes, let’s go with that. Ha :))
“If you didn’t hav feet. I widt wock on my hands. I would
wash my hands. It would be rle ese to klim a tree. I would be like a mance and
a cliaplr. It would be eses to swim to.” (Translation: If you didn’t have feet.
I would walk on my hands. I would wash my hands. It would be really easy to
climb a tree. I would be like a monkey and a catepillar. It would be easy to
swim too. Yes, I had her read it to me.)
“You might not be trying. You might not be flechsabl. You
might not be hrdragradid. You might be tird.” (Translation: flexible, hydrated, and tired. I asked her about being dehydrated and she said, "well it would be really hard to drink water if you had to do it with hands where your feet should be." Well played my dear, you're a genius.)
“If I had my hands on my legs I would fall down. Then I
would be a ailen then evrey one would scream. And your hands cant fit in your
shoes then where would your feet be. And how would you run and play games and
how would you wrigt and how would you sit down and how would you eat and drink
that would be hard? Then how would you play basketball and football and
baseball and golf and bowling and how would you read and how would anamals
walk.” (This kid and his rants. His last paragraph literally had no punctuation in it at first, he just gets so excited that he started rambling. I die reading it every time... so precious.)
“If I had hands on insted of feet I would be doing a
handstand. It would hert my hands. I would rech to my fingers. It would be hard
to coler with feet.” (I was surprised at the number of kids who were concerned about how they could color with hands on their feet... bahaha)
“I would be crepee. Yo could say it’s a costum. You can’t
woke. You can’t hooled anything.” (Halloween is on their little brains already. Sheesh.)
Also today, we read a story where a little boy (Peter)
writes a letter to a girl named Amy and invites her to his birthday party. It’s
a big deal because he’s worried about what all his little bro-friends will
think and then the letter gets lost and all sorts of things happen. But in the
end (SPOILER ALERT!) Amy comes to the birthday party and Peter is all happy and
the story ends when he “makes a very special wish of his own and blows out all
the candles.” So in one of my small groups (3 girls and 1 boy) I asked, “what
do you think Peter’s special wish might be?” And the one dorky little boy,
without hesitation grins and says, “I think he wished that when he grows up he
might marry Amy.”
Needless to say, I melted. What a cutie-patootie.
Today was another long, successful, and funny day in student
teaching. My students took a lot of tests, did a lot of reading, and were
generally funny. I hope you enjoyed their journal entries as much as I did :).
Summary from the teacher lady: day 2.
The hardest part of student teaching is the timing. It
generally takes my students way (WAY) longer to do things than I imagine.
Possibly because we always review things and spend what seems like ridiculous amounts
of time reviewing and practicing general social skills, expectations, and classroom
management things. (That’s the key to being a strict and effective teacher
lady, I’m convinced.) Possibly because I sometimes forget that they are still
just little kids. Innocent little 7 and 8 year old who take time to do things
like read and think and work. Timing will come with more practice, but today it
seemed like I was always running about 4 minutes behind ;). More updates on that as time
progresses.
Until tomorrow…
Peace, love, and quotes that I will someday write a
hilarious book with,
Jayna
