Ever since I shared my Slice of Life Story from Day 5 with my students, I’ve noticed more and more teddy bears appearing every day. The bears stay in the girls’ backpacks nearly all day, except for lunchtime.
Today, at lunchtime, I had all of my female students up for recess and lunch for a special “Ladies Luncheon.” We were lunching together since I just got some books with strong female characters and four more subscriptions to New Moon Magazine for Girls and Their Dreams from a proposal I wrote at DonorsChoose.
After they got their lunches, all of us walked back upstairs to the classroom. Upon arriving in the classroom I noticed a pack of bears on top of Table Three. Therefore, I asked the girls not to sit there. They obliged, but were a bit unhappy about it.
Here’s the scene that I discovered when I approached Table Three:
Would you believe this? (Four or five of the girls set up the bears so that they’d be “reading” Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry.
I shook my head in disbelief and wondered what have I created? Clearly, when I wrote I was a teddy bear lover in my SOLS, the girls honed-in on that!
Hey, at least the bears aren’t disrupting the academic day since they spend most of it in the hall. Therefore, I shouldn’t be complaining. Rather, I should just be happy that they’re bringing bears, not electronics!
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Oh, I hope the bears are enjoying Roll of Thunder! That’s a great book. I’ve used it with many of my classes. Great post!
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I think it’s great you let your students respond to your post with more bears:) In our school students aren’t allowed to bring toys. I have a few who bring them and keep them near while they work. I don’t mention anything about them til on that rare occasion they are flying across the room or being grabbed. Your post created a great mental image for me.
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