Kids' Quips

In case you don't know (or forgot), I want to spend the rest of my life (at least at the moment!) in school. That's right... I LOVE it. One reason is because of who makes it up--the kids! Last week was VBS and this week I have been teaching 8-4 each day at King Scholar Academy, an enrichment day camp for grades 3-6. I taught a class called "Fairy Tale Fun" where we read original stories, worked on summarizing and paraphrasing, put the Big Bad Wolf on trial in a real courtroom debate, wrote fairy tale characters letters (and received responses), wrote cinquains and acrostics with fairy tale characters' names, and did a culminating project where we chose a fairy tale and retold it in some way. One group performed "Little Red, Riding in the Hood." It was classic. Anyway, it has been a blessing for many reasons, one of which being that it affirmed my calling for grades 7-12. Ha! Really, though, I definitely prefer the kind of content and less disciplinary issues that accompany secondary ed... but this week has been fun hanging out with a different age group.

One student, who came last year when I taught French there, decided that he would join us at the "teacher table" during lunch each day. He plopped his tray on the table, said "Hey, guys" in the most adorable voice possible, and began conversing with us like a little man. He continued this trend for the rest of the week. Today, when I asked what he wanted to be when he grows up, he said, "Probably an inventor." If there is ever a kid who can do it, this one can, so we continued talking until the conversation involved the idea of a time machine. We were talking about places we would or wouldn't go, and I told him if he ever found a solution to make one, I'd buy one from him. This student's seven-year old response is priceless and holds so much truth: "Miss Allison, I could never make one. Nobody can get in God's way, you know... He can't be stopped." How refreshing and affirming it was to hear a third grader already attuned to the nature of our Heavenly Father. Students speak truth so often and are many times unheard; we're too busy, too annoyed, or too stubborn. How precious are these kids in the sight of the Lord!