REAL LIFE STORIES: SHARING  WITH YOU

Annie wants to share with you this “Teaching experience”….

"Sorry about that...."

I selected the picture storybooks I wanted and sat down to wait for my
year one class to respond to the bell.  As usual they rushed in like a
blast of unruly wind to take their place on the mat in front of me.

 A few minutes later, all was quiet; faces and eyes to the front, arms
folded as they waited for the story.

Suddenly there was a loud howl from the front row.  I looked up from the
book and there was Hone with his mouth open as big as a Tanewha.

“What’s that rude sound you’re making Hone,” I asked.

He pointed at the latest addition to the class- the English boy
sitting next to him.

“He hit me,” he wailed.

I looked at Henry; bland face, arms folded, politely waiting for story time.

 “He hit me,” howled Hone again.

 “Did you Henry?” I asked, trying my best not to burst into laughter
at this incongruous situation.

 With his best ‘plum in the mouth’ English he replied, “Terrible sorry
Mrs. ‘G’ but I punched the wrong chap.”
 

-- Annie Glancey