I've always thought teachers were under-paid and under-appreciated and now I know I am totally right! Chandler Schools participates in a program called Junior Achievement; it's comprised of parent volunteers going into the classroom for the whole day and teaching a series of lessons including several activities. Most of it is prepared for us ahead of time and the teacher stays in the room to discipline kids if needed. This allows the teacher work on end-of-the-year stuff.
I have to say Jared did a great job. He did everything and all I had to do was read the stories and help get their attention so he could tell them something while they worked on their activities. Emma of course was in heaven having her parents in the room and teaching her class.
Lunch time...here's a good question for ya...why did we have to pay $3 for this lunch and Emma only had to pay $2 for it when we got the same nasty nacho cheese, bag of chips, fake chocolate tasting chocolate chip cookie, carrots (that have probably been sitting out all week) and juice. I avoided the milk because I remember back in elementary school when sometimes it would be green at the bottom - yuck.
My favorite part of the whole day was when Jared was telling the kids what he did for a living and I told him to ask a little girl what her mom does because she also works at Intel and her reply to Jared was, "um, my mom makes lists so she can help me with my pink birthday party on saturday and it's going to be really fun" (and then a bunch of other ramblings which I cant remember).
I have to say Jared did a great job. He did everything and all I had to do was read the stories and help get their attention so he could tell them something while they worked on their activities. Emma of course was in heaven having her parents in the room and teaching her class. 
Lunch time...here's a good question for ya...why did we have to pay $3 for this lunch and Emma only had to pay $2 for it when we got the same nasty nacho cheese, bag of chips, fake chocolate tasting chocolate chip cookie, carrots (that have probably been sitting out all week) and juice. I avoided the milk because I remember back in elementary school when sometimes it would be green at the bottom - yuck. 
My favorite part of the whole day was when Jared was telling the kids what he did for a living and I told him to ask a little girl what her mom does because she also works at Intel and her reply to Jared was, "um, my mom makes lists so she can help me with my pink birthday party on saturday and it's going to be really fun" (and then a bunch of other ramblings which I cant remember).
7 comments:
What a day. What did you do with Eli? It was great to see you, by the way, at Grandma's house. Thanks for coming over. How are the twins in the belly? Well, it was really good of you to volunteer in the classroom.
Oh, what a cute daddy! That is so cool. I am totally out of the Elementary school "loop" I didn't know that they did stuff like this. I need to start studying up on all of this in the next couple of years.
That is so cool that you could go into her class and help out!
Ri
I am totally jealous of you Jared - what a great opportunity. Did you enjoy yourself? (Yeh, I trying to get you to respond on the blog)
Great job on being a "teacher" for the day. You look like you are having fun and props for being the cool dad. I am sure it was so much fun for Emma. The little girl's mom sounds like she has the "easy" job at Intel:)
Great job, Jared and Carol. I'm sure Emma loved it. Too bad about the crummy food.
So where is the picture of you, Carol? I haven't seen that big belly in a while. Looks like you guys had a lot of fun! I'm sure Emma was beaming all day. I remember when I used to actually go into my kids' classrooms and they would be so excited. They would just die to have both their parents there! Hope you're feeling OK and the babies are being nice to you. ;o) Talk to you soon!
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