Kindergarten Kiddos

My little sister volunteers at her local elementary school for about an hour because she wants to be a Kindergarten teacher.  Today, she took me with her for her very own show & tell, a special event for the kiddos there.

Upon arrival, I got a visitor badge!  That was so great.  I remember being in elementary and people would walk around with passes, and I wanted one, and here I finally had one!  It was great.

Then I got to watch a "student of the month" assembly in the lunchroom.  I am not sure how many students were paying attention, because it was very loud with chatter, and one girl was so proud that she knew what orange juice was and she wanted to teach everyone around her...anyway, I didn't know if this was an effective assembly, but all of the children knew when to clap, so I supposed they were just really good at multitasking in Wyoming.

Then we took all of our kindergarten kiddos to the computer lab and my sister said I might have to help them log in.  that was so fun!  They just had to spell their name and hit 4 numbers, but i forgot that the order of the letters on the keyboard is out of whack and you have to work a bit to memorize where they are, so I helped a few kids find the letter r and the number 6.  Then I made my best friend for the day: DAMIEN!

Damien is the cutest little squiggly kid who just loves attention, which I was perfectly happy to give him.  He said he needed help untangling his headset, so I untangled it for him.  I looked at the name on his headset baggie and this was our introduction:

"Are you Damien?" I asked.
"Yes!  Who are you?"
"You know Miss Ward?"
"Yes!"
"I am her sister."
"Oh, okay!" he replied and he smiled really big and continued logging in after I showed him where the backspace key was.

Later, I was talking with my sister and the teacher when Damien raised his hand.  I looked over and he said the cutest thing!

"Her Sister, come over here."

He thought my name was Her Sister, and I was called that for the rest of the time until show & tell when they finally learned my name.  Ha ha.  I love that nickname.  Also, children ask the strangest and funniest questions about show & tell objects.  Also, sometimes their questions are really statements about themselves.  Regardless, they are adorable.

So many great things happened in that short period of time that I cannot write them or type them down today.  I have been working on some crafts for a better part of the day and my wrists are a bit sore, so I'm gonna say thanks for reading now.

Thanks for reading.

P.S. My sorely missed friends returned from China today.  I cannot wait to return to Logan, because I know they will be joining me there shortly!  I am really so bittersweetly happy about the fact that they are back in Utah. The only bitter part is that I cannot see them right this second!  Here's a shout out to you guys!