Our principal is retiring at the end of the year, and so each team has been tasked to come up with some kind of "presentation" for her farewell assembly next month. One of the teachers on our team suggested having the students sing something, but a few others were sure that these particular kids would never be willing.
It seemed to me that this was one of the singingest bunches of sixth graders I have ever known. In addition to the Poem in Your Pocket Day song just last week, I remembered a bus ride not long ago where I was glad we didn't have far to go because of the enthusiastically loud singing.
So the next day I decided to ask them, starting with my homeroom. I explained the whole presentation thing to them, and ended with, "What would you guys think about singing something?"
NO NO NO! It seemed unanimous.
"But I thought you liked to sing," I said. "I hear enough of it around here."
"Oh yeah," one student laughed. "Remember yesterday? When we were thinking of Alphabiography titles? F is for..."
That's all it took. The whole group joined in on that Sponge Bob classic, even the ones that weren't there yesterday. "U is for you and me!" they thundered.
I had to wait until the song was through to be heard above the raucous racket. "See? You love singing! How about it?"
They said they would think about it.
Life Lesson: Sometimes N is not for anywhere and anytime at all.
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