What were they thinking?

This blog comes in two parts today to answer the question, what were they thinking? Please enjoy in any order.

A child's story-

So I talked in an earlier post about how we have some job slips for the kids to draw at the end of the day so they can help tidy up the classroom. Now I don't expect them to get the job done perfectly, but every little bit does help. Usually it's great, the 'dust a shelf' job slips have been especially popular, which is great since dusting is pretty low on our teacher to do list and the children do a great job of it. Another job we have is 'check for dull pencils'. The child is supposed to pull the dull pencils out of the color coded holders and put them with the regular pencils to be sharpened. Well this is what I found today when I went to sharpen the pencils-

Now I'm not sure if the girl who checked the pencils just has really high standards for sharp pencils, didn't quite understand the word dull, or just really liked taking each pencil and placing it the big container. Either way, she did take out the dull pencils and they did get sharpened...so mission accomplished right?

An adult's story-

It was recess, I was spending the last half-hour of work playing four square with the few remaining elementary students (tough job isn't it?) when a car pulls up. A dad for one of the elementary students had arrived and the student quickly ran inside to get her lunch box and homework. Instead of just standing by the fence and waiting, the dad gets in line for four square and asks how to play. I don't know who was more shocked, the children who explained the rules to him, or his daughter when she came out and saw him playing with her friends. He stayed and played for a good 15 mins to her absolute delight. Four square isn't a hard game to learn or play, but when the area you are playing in is bigger it helps to have longer arms and legs. This student may have been one of the younger ones, but having dad there more than made up for the difference.

I still don't know why he decided to come and join our game, what he was thinking. But the elementary children were very impressed and stepped up their game to keep up with him.