Monday 10:00

My Monday 10:00 class is so ammusing it deserves a post all to itself.

I have 10 kids in the class, 3 of which are boys, and as soon as I call them out to class they are all talking at once about their boo boos and where they went that weekend and what they are wearing and on and on and on. They aren't necessarily defiant children, but getting them to zip it long enough to listen is another thing altogether.

One of the girls in the class will only sit on a purple shape and if all of the purple shapes are taken she flips out. One of the girls has the phonetics of a small child but the communication skills of a teenager. Another of the girls is quite possibly more mature than me and I just eventually had her teach our Bible lesson last Monday because she was explaining it better than me.

The youngest girl can never sit still and is always making one of the other kids say, "stop touching me!" when I'm trying to explain stations. The oldest girl is usually the one yelling, "stop touching me!" and I inevitably have to split them up. Come to think of it, I'm not sure why they always end up next to each other.

The one of the newest additions to our class has an adorable little instability in her voice that sounds a little bit like a teenage boy but has a sweetness to her that just makes you want to see her succeed. The brand newest addition to our class is the little sister of a girl that I had in my class several years ago. The older one was a talker but now that I think about it, I don't know if the younger one has talked to me except at the end of class when she's telling me what she learned so she can get her treat. Now that I think about it, it's kind of refreshing compared to most of the chatterboxes in that class.

The 3 boys are quite different from one another. We have the quiet one who talks even less than the quietest girl, the one who says "watch me" every 5 seconds, and the one who is always acting like he's killing you with a light saber and wants to pray for monsters every week.

After an hour with these 10 children, as you can imagine, I'm usually ready for a nap!