a few reasons why elementary school keeps me occupied :)

1. I almost always eat lunch with students and one day with 2nd graders our conversation turned into a game of I-spy. One little girl said, "I spy something pretty..." and a little boy started pointing at me. She said, "Yup, you got it" and then it was his turn to spy--that was cute and nice to hear :)
2. The lunch tables are round with room for 8 students/table. One table was like 4 boys and 4 girls, and the boys were apparenty not very happy that they had to sit by the girls (this happened with 3rd graders). One young man got a brilliant idea--eat all beans and fart because they aren't happy about sitting by the girls. Another boy at the table came running up to me and told me what their plan was and how it was funny---and I did find it quite humorous. I watched the whole situation unfold, we will call the student with the beans "D." D comes back to the table with a round plate full of beans and everyone at the table is laughing, well...except the girls. Jamie's aunt works as a secretary at school and she helps out in the lunch room during lunch making sure that everyone gets their number typed into the computer correctly to pay for lunch. She was given the task of telling D to stop farting...so she walked over and with a smile she said, "Boys..." and then she turned into a tsk tsk face and just shook her head and said, "Stop farting...." and something like how it is not appropriate at school. I didn't know beans worked instantly...but it must have been enough that people had taken notice... :)
3. I wore my hair down and straight one day and one kindergarten class said I looked like a Rockstar!! :) The next week they kept reminding me that they liked when my hair was like that... 
4. The "specials" teachers are me (guidance), the librarian, the PE teacher, the music teacher, and sometimes the art teacher depending on the grade. I told a kindergartener that I was going to be at their kindergarten graduation in the spring and she was excited and then asked if "PE man" would be there. I thought that was cute :)