Despite last Sunday, I recommitted myself to the class and
to keeping order. The commitment
to order was apparently not a reciprocal commitment. We managed to get past the opening prayer with the help of
young Rodney Higgins’ petition to the All Mighty that there would be “no tooting
during class… at least loud or smell ones.” The apparently was an acceptable request as none of the kids
batted an eyelash. I guess you CAN
pray for anything.
We did work on raising our hands to answer questions. I think that they got to the point of
raising theirs hand WHILE yelling out an answer. It is a start.
I did need to spend some time working with little Nephi Carter’s hand
raising technique. He definitely
understands the idea of raising his hand to answer a question. He even knew most of the answers. It is was his form that was
troubling. Obviously excited to
provide his response, Nephi would jump out of his chair, click his heals
together, and hold out his arm at a 45-degree angle with his finger tight
together in a perfect Nazi salute.
I had to check behind me to confirm that Hitler was not passing behind in
his Mercedes Benz.
Nephi did not understand my concern and was also unable to
modify his hand raising technique.
A rather precocious boy in the class, Miles, who apparently watches the
History Channel, picked up on me concern starting yelling “Seig Heil” each time
Nephi raised his hand. At that
point I had to give up on Nephi and direct my attention to Miles. Perhaps next week Rodney could pray for
no pro-Nazi propaganda in class.
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