essential vocab for my students

As you may remember, there is always a soundtrack playing in my mind. And oftentimes during a conversation or a sermon something someone says sparks a new song to "play." If I am in a safe environment (like with my family or in my house), I sometimes will just burst into song...

Well, this can be dangerous in the classroom! Holy cow does it take a lot of self control to not let yourself go off on tangents and rabbit trails in the middle of class! Sometimes, okay, it works, it's appropriate, or the students just need a laugh and a break, but sometimes if just disrupts and distracts.

Both last weekend and this weekend, something my kids said in my Saturday/Sunday morning class sparked some random tangents...thankfully they fit right into the lesson and came at an appropriate time.

I have no idea what sparked this song coming to mind, but last weekend, I taught my kids the word supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. :-) I showed them the song on youtube (definitely becoming one of my favorite things as a teacher) and this week, one of my girls came in singing the song. It's now an essential part of our classroom vocabulary...though one of my boys, who is very practical and quite brilliant, just doesn't understand why we would ever need to use a word like that. Oh how I love them!!

Well, this weekend, my tangent didn't lead to a new word but a hilarious song...from Silly Songs with Larry. :-) Again, I can't recall how I got on this tangent, but something in our conversation during the break led me to sing, "It's a lip, it's a lip, it's a lip, lip, lip..." This led to another youtube video. :-)

I love children! I love their ability to laugh, adapt, and have fun. Thank you, Father, for allowing me the opportunity to teach. :-)