Saturday, October 9
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Monkey See, Monkey Tries
[journal]
Children are master imitators. That's how they learn and that's why as a teacher you have to be very careful at what you say and how you act. I've been hanging around the children for so long that sometimes I start to imitate them. For example, how they speak. Instead of saying "Everyone please put seven fingers in the air (for the seven days in the week song)," I would say "Do like me."
On Thursday a boy was being bothered by another one. This boy, we'll call him Bean because he reminds me of the sweet but oblivious character of the same name, said "Hey, stop hitting me!" and sort of pushed the other boy away. My teacher said, "Bean, if someone is bothering you, you just move your finger like this (she wagged her finger to and fro) and say, "I don't like that." So adorable, chubby Bean sauntered over to the other boy and wagged his fingers centimeters from his face like how someone on Jerry Springer might and said in a childish and loud voice, "I like that."
There is a girl in the class that wears chapstick. I found out today because she rapped me on the shoulder and told me proudly, "I put on chopsticks on my lips all by myself."
And already there is a boy who wears his pants so low that you can see his underwear.
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