Compliments or Why I Love Teaching Little Ones

"Whoa, you look super-pretty today!"

Junie B. Jones has such a way of cutting through the small talk and calling it like it is. It is so cute when they notice what I'm wearing and compliment it.

Get Thee to a Gym

"When you wear that shirt, you look like you're having a baby."

But I'm not. Enough said.

Wardrobe

"Why do you wear black so much?"

"I think it makes me look thinner. Is it working?"

"I think you look nice in whatever you wear."

This little cupcake is not in my class but I adore her. She is the 1st grade daughter of a colleague and she helps me after school 2-3 times per week. This conversation made up for quite a bad day and sealed my desire to have a cutie pie daughter just like her.

Twice a Week?

"What's this extra button for anyway?"

Teaching 1st grade gives me the opportunity to teach important life lessons kids haven't had a chance to learn yet.

Case in point...
One boy in my class comes to school AT LEAST twice a week with his shirt buttoned wrong. He starts with the spare button on the inside of the placket and goes up. One time I was helping him fix it and ended up with a crowd around me. One of the cutie cupcakes in the gang asked the above question but I just could not convince them to ignore the button.