Little Miss Strikes Again

In second grade, sharing time is coveted. My students really look forward to it. One thing that I stress is that they can only share if they can connect their sharing to our unit of study. During this week, we were studying kindness. Many of the kiddos brought toys and said that they got them as gifts and that was kind. Although this is a bit of a cop-out, they made the connection so all was good in my book. It was Little Miss' day to share. She brought this adorable little snow globe with a tiger in it. Of course, I thought that she would take this down the same path that all of the other students had gone down. Little Miss started by telling us that they had been to the San Diego Zoo Wild Animal Park and that her dad had bought it for her out of kindness. In an effort to move things along, I promptly asked her to choose a few students who have questions for her. She turned and looked at me and said that she was not finished yet. OK, I thought, maybe she is going to talk about the vacation being kind, but what happened next was definitely not expected. I told her to continue on...and she did. She began to talk about visiting the tiger encampment at the park. She, of course, described it with great detail. She then started to talk about a specific momma tiger. Apparently, momma tiger was in labor. With her back arched and grunts and moans, she attempted to mimic the tiger giving birth. I tried to squash it, but it was a bit late at this point. She then stopped and promptly said that the zoo helper had put a blanket in front of where the baby tiger was coming out. The zoo helper was showing kindness, because she helped the kids watching not get grossed out.  So, needless to say we got a jumpstart on our next unit, Life Cycles. Oi ve! So much for the stork! (BTW- according to mom, it never happened)