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student teaching moment
In Kindergarten
[Note: "La Fiesta de la Posada" is a song about the festival celebrating Mary and Joseph looking for a room at the inn.]
Me: We’re singing a song called “La Fiesta de la Posada.” What’s a fiesta?
Kids: A party!
I went to a fiesta once!
And you hit the thing with the candy. . .
etc.
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a student teaching moment
Me: Let’s see a straight, quiet line here.
Little Girl (in second grade): I work out every day, and I go to Karate.
I want to say: Are you threatening me?
Or: Big deal! I do Sudoku all the time.
Or: Why don’t you go out to the playground and practice some of those moves on one particular trouble-making classmate?
But I really say: That’s nice! We [...]