Show and Tell

If anyone is ever bored on a Thursday afternoon between 12:30 and 12:50, you can come to Show and Tell at my class. My favorite time of the school week. Sometimes though, you learn some sad things, like the time a little boy stood up and said, "My mom and dad don't live together anymore because they got a divorce. (pause) But I hope they get married again someday." Wow. What do you say to that? Thank goodness, most of the things they show or tell about are fun. One boy in my class, Brayden, likes to write music. So for show and tell he sang some of his songs. He had a whole stack of them, so I told him to just sing his favorite one. The name of it was "I Fell In A Dark Hole." Sometimes it is SOOOOOO hard to keep a straight face! He whipped out a song for me too. You can sing it to any tune (because that's what he does). The name of it is Bayles Teaches School. Here's how it goes: "Bayles teaches school and she's my teacher. She's an awesome teacher. I loooooove third grade!" He just belted it out. I was almost crying I was trying so hard not to laugh but he probably thought I was just so touched. He asks me every day if I like my song and I assure him I do. Another show and tell day a boy, named Kris, brought a flat pizza box, (his parents own a pizza place in Preston), and he held it up and said, "Do any of you know what this is?" A couple of kids did, but most of them didn't. So he said, "I'm going to show you how to fold a pizza box." So he proceeded to do so. The class was amazed at his talent and several of them ooo'd and ahhh'd over it. One comment was that he was just like a magician the way he turned that cardboard into a pizza box. He was very proud and he even presented the finished box to me. I'm so lucky. My own song and my own personal-sized pizza box.