I do complain about my students a lot. I think this is fair, as they certainly complain about me. But on the whole they are fantastic kids, as long as you keep them away from improvised weapons. They're often startling thoughtful, insightful, and smart in all kinds of surprising ways, and I'm constantly delighted that it's actually my job to hang out and talk to them.
And they give me presents all the time. Just little things; things they have to part with. The elementary kids give me pencils, erasers, trading cards and stickers. If they make cookies or soap in a class they come and give me those. Or they run in and break up a candy bar to feed me some of it.
The middle school kids get really creative with this one, though. They're the ones who give me elaborate drawings of robots or origami monsters. The space under my computer monitor at school is currently cluttered with little paper finger puppets a boy gave me because I saw him making them and told him they were cool.
And then a few days back one of my boys decided to draw a picture of me up on the board before class started. It made me smile.
And they give me presents all the time. Just little things; things they have to part with. The elementary kids give me pencils, erasers, trading cards and stickers. If they make cookies or soap in a class they come and give me those. Or they run in and break up a candy bar to feed me some of it.
The middle school kids get really creative with this one, though. They're the ones who give me elaborate drawings of robots or origami monsters. The space under my computer monitor at school is currently cluttered with little paper finger puppets a boy gave me because I saw him making them and told him they were cool.
And then a few days back one of my boys decided to draw a picture of me up on the board before class started. It made me smile.
Sounds like other teachers I have talked to, also sounds like being a parent. You need to come visit us again Gordon is 5 now you have no idea what is about to come out of his mouth.
ReplyDeleteIt's exactly like being a parent. Except I'm usually not responsible for their well-being for more than a couple of hours at a time, so it's more like micro-parenting. Though the Korean teachers do get really involved--it's not unusual for one of the kids to call up his homeroom teacher late at night and ask them to come get him from the police station.
DeleteYou need to tell your kids to stop aging. They're weirding me out.
You can't be saying that the fact that we are the same age and I have three kids, 5, almost 4, and 6 months, is strange!! But beyond that I think its strange too. Sometimes I look at them and think I have been raising this person and teaching them, What was the world thinking!!!
DeleteThey are getting bigger to which is even more weird, I don't notice the change as much sence I see them all the time, but every now then it catches me. Like Gordon is now up to my waist and I am like "How did you get up here??"
I had not realized Gordon was that old. Weird. A little bit bigger and he might just be able to pull off a mutiny.
DeleteYep, we are in Kindergarden... and when I say we, I am emphasizing the point that it is almost like I am back in school again. Though its not going as good as we would like, he is still young and may need to mature for anouther year before moving onto 1st grade.
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