Tuesday, April 14, 2009

3-D glasses and pig-boys . . .

so today . . . we didn't get much work done at school. well, we did work kind of hard this morning, but this afternoon, things just fell apart.

i don't know if the weather is to blame (it was cloudy and cool today, which weirds us out) or if it is the fact that public school is on spring vacation this week (and we wish we were too) or if it is just that joshua's goofiness finally got to jonathan and me . . .

we were sitting in the semi-darkness of the three year old classroom. the three year olds were supposed to be napping, and most of them were. i monitor this room for half an hour every afternoon while their teacher is taking her lunch break. usually i kind of enjoy it--i bring coloring or puzzles or books for the boys to play with quietly, and i finish my lunch and read a book. usually. and that's the way today started out . . . until i happened to look up from my book to see this:
i had brought the 3-D books today, so you would think i would be prepared, but it just struck me as funny, so i snapped a picture with my phone. this attention inspired more silliness . . .
joshua decided maybe he looked like a rock star . . .
and then we saw the amazing 4 armed boy . . . although you can only see 3 of his arms!
when we got back to our classroom, i managed to corral them long enough to do some science work, but joshua completed his using only one hand. his other hand was busy keeping his nose in pig position. and he pretended to be a pig all during science. he talked with a little boy's voice, but the words were those of a pig--if a pig could speak english. i probably should have gotten firm and worked my way back into being in charge. but i didn't. i definitely should have videotaped him, but i was too busy laughing. and poor jonathan . . . he works so hard to be a good student, but he was just losing it too. so i did the only thing i could do--i threw the lesson plan out the window, and we just played and goofed off the rest of the afternoon.

my students are five years old. they are small boys, and they have to spend an awful lot of time sitting at a table with a pencil and a paper. they are smart and hard-working, but they are still little boys. and today, we spent most of the afternoon enjoying that!

3 comments:

Sherry Hunt said...

Another day that brought a big smile. The pictures are wonderful and the choice to make the afternoon a fun experience is heartily applauded.

Sherry

Jes said...

MMMMmmmm i was excited for Chewy chocolate chip cookies today!!

Jon & Josh are always SO funny!

Jewelielyn said...

yes, for cookies in a package from the grocery store, they were delicious! i had brownies and soda for lunch and then cookies . . . i'd better eat salad today!