An Unforgettable Teacher Moment

I was reading Dr. Turtle's blog today and am delighted that she is going to join the fabulous world of teachers. It is a great group to be a part of!

After reading Dr. Turtle's wonderful news, I felt obligated to share an unforgettable teacher moment that happened to me yesterday. For those of you that don't know, I teach second grade. I am also pregnant and due in about six weeks. This is fascinating to my students. They have a lot of funny questions and comments, but this one takes the cake.

Yesterday I had my students lined up to go outside for our daily morning recess. The second grade teachers take turns doing recess duty and this happened to not be my week. My students were curious when I would be going outside with them again, and when I explained to them that I would be going out again next week, one little boy innocently asked me, "Are you spending some time with your belly?" It was so precious! I couldn't help but smile and think to myself how fascinatingly simple the world is to seven year olds. If only that's all there was to it.