There are times in the library when I wonder if anybody is listening or if I'm just talking to myself. So sometimes I test the kids and say absolutely ridiculous things to see if they'll catch on.
In kindergarten sometimes chewing out the bad kid doesn't do any good, but if you praise the good kids they'll do whatever they can to get you to praise them next. Am I being good? If you have to ask, then no you're not! I have five tables on the classroom side of my library. When I call the kids to line up, I use their table numbers. I use their table numbers a lot. Every kid knows what table they sit on. I will often make a broad statement about table 1 sharing nicely, or that everyone on table 3 needs to sit correctly. For the last couple of years, I have made an example of table 6.
Mrs. Honey: Look how good table 6 is being today! Wow table 6 is really following directions today! Table 6 is sharing the crayons so nicely! Mrs. Honey is so proud of table 6! I sure wish everyone was as good as table 6!
These statements are followed by all the kids looking around the room trying to see the kids on table 6 and trying to figure out how they can be better then table 6. If you have been paying attention better then a kindergartner, then you will realize that there is NO TABLE 6. It does not exist except in my mind. In my mind I see a lovely table surrounded by clean children who are not picking their noses and eating boogers. They are quietly working on their papers and have all neatly written their names on their papers spelled correctly and legible. Their butts are not sticking in the air with their questionably clean underwear showing. Or worse no underwear and bare butts showing.
But anyway back to the nonexistent table 6. In all the times I have used table 6 not one kindergartner has caught on. Until last week, when I heard a little voice tell me after I had praised table 6....
"But Mrs. Honey, you don't have a table 6."
Well hopefully no one will ever be as bad table 7.
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