Sometimes you just gotta sing

I got tickled today. It's not often that this happens, but today something happened that just tickled me. As I was standing in front of 22 eager little minds, teaching vocabulary words for our next story, one of my little guys did something and I just had to smile.

I was going over the new vocabulary words that we would be seeing in our story this week. I usually do this so when they come to these words while reading, they already have an idea of what the new word means and how it relates to what is being said in the story. Basically, standard teaching procedure.

After reviewing the words, I asked the students to get out their book and open to page 606 so we could read the short story that uses all the vocabulary words we just learned. All the kids started to search their desk for the appropriate book and turn to the page as directed. Except Robbie.

Robbie has a tendency to get side tracked. So, to help prevent this from happening, his desk is right in front of me so I can tap his desk to get his attention back on track. Well, today, Robbie was listening and trying to find his book. While he was doing this, he began to sing a little tune to himself. Unbeknownst to him, he wasn't really singing to himself. We all heard his little tune. So I stopped talking and just looked at him and listened. So did everyone else. Robbie, oblivious to it all, kept on singing as he pulled his book out and placed it on his desk.

It was at that moment that he looked at me. I was standing in front of him, smiling. He stopped...and it suddenly hit him what he was doing. He began to laugh and we all joined in with laughter. Of course, he was a little embarassed and it prevented him from being able to read aloud with us, but eventually he regained his composure and was able to participate.

Ya know, sometimes, you just gotta sing!