And the adventures continue! We had a small class today but it was one of those days where I looked at the kids and could tell they are getting smarter. They did a great job at answering the questions and were pretty disciplined.
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K: Ah...all were have is boring adult toothpaste at my house.
(5 minutes later, another girl turns to Nephi..)
C: Brother Guymon, my Mom bought us pink princess toothpaste at my house.
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(Nephi was at the chalkboard drawing road sign shapes for the lesson.)
C: Are you drawing shapes!?
Nephi: No...
C: Brother Guymon...(sternly) That is the second time you have lied to me today.
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Mallory: What if you had to get to your friends house with no one's help, how would you know how to get there?
K: Um, you would ask your Mom to drive you.
Mallory: No...she can't drive you. It's just you trying to get there by yourself. How could you figure out how to get there?
K: Well, use signs from the road with the arrows.
Mallory: Uh...(look down at my lesson)...that's actually, right... Ha!
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'K' told a story for about 10 minutes straight as the kids were coloring at the end of class. Here is the gist of it...
K: I want to tell you a true story...blah, blah, blah...and it will be $100 for a new bird house, and she only had $3 left so she needed to earn some money from the bank. Yep....blah, blah, blah...Yep.
C: I don't believe any of this.
K: And then down the stairs there were a lot of stools...and a soccer ball. Yep.
C: None of that was true.
We were too tired to stop her and just laughed and asked questions throughout the story.
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Any of you who teach primary have a hard time filling the whole 45 minutes with a lesson? We struggle. But we try to make good use of the time we have by not going off on tangents and always directing back to the lesson. We are making progress.
PS-This may, or may not, be Nephi's last week as my team teacher...Let's just say we got a visit from the Bishop yesterday. Stay tuned.
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