first grade is absolutely THE best place for me. i adore my children. i adore my job and really can't believe i ever doubted for a moment that this was what i wanted to spend the rest of my life doing. i wish i took more time to write everything down that they say, or things that happen everyday because honestly THEY KILL ME. especially when they are so set on something that is absolute bologna.
anyway. last week we read this story called "foolish ray". it was a play, so i had different kids come up and act the story out while they were reading. at one part in the story, foolish ray gets married to this girl sadie. the two kids that were playing foolish ray and sadie, we'll call them bobby and jane, took it so seriously and couldn't stop laughing about the fact that they were six and were getting married. later that day, during our free write, jane wrote, "i'm getting married today and i hate it!" then drew a picture of a very sad bride and an eager looking husband, labeled "foolish ray". then we all dropped it.
or so i thought.
yesterday, bobby's friend we'll call paxton shows up to school with these round glasses and a little notebook that he's copiously scribbilng in all day. i finally ask what it is and he said, "i'm preparing a speech for the wedding!" "what wedding?" "bobby and jane's wedding. it's on friday, and they've asked me to be the preacher."
what.
ok, still didn't think much of it.
but then it keeps getting brought up. "bobby and jane are getting married on friday." "are you excited for the wedding on friday?" "what are you wearing to the wedding on friday, miss ence?" etc. etc. i sat down with jane and bobby separately and asked what all this was about. bobby was not amused. jane had cooked all this up on her own, asking paxton to be the preacher and arranged everything else, including a best man, bridesmaids, and someone to do her cake and flowers. WHAT. firstly, how does she know all this about wedding planning? secondly, WHY. we are six!!!!
amidst my chuckles during all this, i talked to the class about "the wedding", saying it wasn't going to happen on friday and that 6 is way too young to have to worry about anything like that anyway. but the talk didn't stop! every conversation, someone brings up the wedding. even as i'm reading the spelling words for the test this morning and i said the word "make" - then the sentence "i'm going to make a cake after school today." someone raised their hand and in all seriousness asked if it was the cake for jane's wedding.
{ as we were sitting working on a work book today and someone asked jane if she was nervous for the wedding tomorrow, another girl cut in and said, "there should be no wedding. you can't get married until you are 13!!!" bahahah. i'm a few years behind, i guess. }
we have free dress day tomorrow because it's the end of the term, and as today came to a close, the little ones started telling me of the nice dresses and ties they'd picked out for the wedding tomorrow, and the "best man" was so excited to wear his yellow bow tie to school. seriously?? do they really think this is happening??? we're having a mock thanksgiving feast tomorrow but they're now all calling it the wedding feast. OH NO.
i had a nice chat with the whole class before school let out, but i'm almost certain little jane will come to school tomorrow dressed like a bride and who knows, maybe i'll be the flower girl.
NOT.
Sara, I love this! Kids are hilarious...I myself did this in 4th grade. I married Drew Letham & we had a full on wedding. There was a preacher, flowers, cake, a ring...the works. It was awesome. Granted I was a little older than 6, but still. It's SO funny to think back on now. Good luck tomorrow!
ReplyDeleteThis is hilarious. In 6th grade we pretended that a kid in our class was married to a cow across the street.... It was weird. And then we had a fake divorce for them. Also weird. But I still think this wedding is hilarious.
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