A Couple Student Interactions I Don't Want to Forget

Yesterday I had my 4^th grade after school class.  We were going to read the story “Silly Sally.”  As students tend to come a bit late, I generally have some music playing to help the time pass.  One girl had asked me to play “Heal the World” by MJ a few days earlier, so I decided to open this class with “We are the World.”  One of my favorite students is this kid named Ha Taeuk, a hyperactive little dude who screams his answers with enthusiasm, even if he’s only thought it halfway through.  I’ll take it; it’s better than kids who won’t talk.

Anyway, I’m in front of the class singing the chorus when Ha Taeuk come up dancing next to me.  The next time the chorus plays, I use a pen to mime a microphone and, after it repeats a couple times, I put the microphone in front of him.  My thoughts were he’d have picked up that “we are the children” (or at least something phonetically close) comes after “we are the world.”  Instead, he just screamed “YEEEEAAAAAAHHHH!!!” into the pencrophone.  Pretty classic, but I guess you had to be there.

Another moment I’d like to remember happened a couple weeks ago, but I neglected to mention it in a previous post.  During class, one of my third graders raised his hand and yelled “Teacher!!  Teacher!!”  When I called on him, he shouted “Teacher have many furs!”