Booty Shakin'

Kids really do the funniest stuff.

First funny story from kindergarten: The school that I'm teaching at uses a curriculum by some folks called Houghton-Mifflin, and in this program, they call the alphabet, "alphafriends." Each alphafriend has a little song that goes with it. This week we are on the letter 'L' which is Larry Lion. His song is to the tune "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" just a little jazzier. Ok, ok... so you're wondering what's so funny about that?

The kids love to dance to these songs. Mostly dancing when you're five consists of hopping up and down and wiggling, and when I started the cd that's mostly the kind of dancing I saw. However...... one little girl was shakin' her stuff like a seasoned stripper. I mean, full on, butt out, arms up, booty dancin'. Wow.. I almost choked trying not to laugh.

Booty dancing to the tune of "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."

Kindergarten Teacher, Extraodinaire!

I had a job interview on Friday for a kindergarten position at a charter school about an hour away. I thought I did terrible at the interview... I was tongue-tied and I felt like I repeated myself a dozen times.. but apparently I didn't do that terrible... or at least everyone else was worse because I GOT THE JOB!!

AND.. I start this morning. Yikes! The current teacher is switching jobs mid-year and they needed me to start right away. This is a huge blessing for us right now, and I'm very excited about it.

Well.. I'm off to work. :)
(Leaving before the sunrise because it's an hour away!)

3rd Grade

Ok, so I subbed for a third grade class yesterday and I had to go on a field trip.

#1 thing I discovered: Field trips are awesome except for the bus ride. Yuck... 100 sweaty kids crammed on a bus with no ventilation.

#2 thing I re-discovered: Third graders are awesome. They were so fun.

For example... when I arrived they were asking me questions like where I lived. I told them I lived in Atascadero (the school was in another small town about 1/2 an hour away). One little boy sighed and said, "Oh man... the kids in Atascadero are SO lucky!"

That made my day... I had no idea Atascadero kids were so lucky to have me! :)

Well hmm...

Wow! Blogger finally let me post something! For about a week now everytime I tried to get on here it shut my computer down practically.

Here's my new problem.... I can't remember any of those things I was going to post about while blogger wasn't working. Oh well...

The only really interesting thing going on in my world right now is that I have a miserable cold. I'm at the stage where you've swallowed so much snot you feel like you could vomit.

Hope that didn't ruin your appetite for the rest of the day :)