Introducing ... Miss Bauman

Sounds weird huh? Miss Bauman. Makes me sound all proper and stuff and we all I know I lack in the "proper" category ;) Today was the first day of a 40 hour practicum that I am completing this semester at Hoover Elementary School and I think I am really going to like it. I've been placed in the art room and have 5th, 4th & 3rd graders on Monday mornings until December. I already am cracking up at them and the things they say. Here are a few from today:

While sitting in between two chatty girls, one instructs the other to write her name on a folder project and says, "No, you're doing it wrong. You have to write it all formal and stuff, like the Boston Tea Party." This is leading me to research handwriting during the Boston Tea Party, I will get back to you with my findings.

After my teacher introduced me to the class one little girl became especially fond of my attention, we had the following conversation.
"Mrs. Leslie, are you married?"
"No, I'm not"
"Do you have a boyfriend?"
(laughter from me) "No"
"So you are single?"
"Yep"
"Can we call you Mrs. Bauman? We call all of our other teachers Mrs."
(laughter again from me) "Well let's try saying Miss Bauman first ok?"
(smile from student) "But Miss Bauman .... don't you want to get married?!"
Oh, if only you knew my sweet child, haha priceless, nothing like gettin' told what's what by a third grader on your first day teaching!

I also am going to compile a list of names that my offspring will never have, bless their little souls:
Core (Corey)
Fox
Juniper
Jesus
Jaynn (Jane)
Marsellus

I also was rather bewildered when my teacher called a little Hispanic boy Juan ... Miguel ... and probably 2 other stereotypical names before the class yelled his correct name, Pedro, at her. It's going to be a good semester!