In the last weeks of school, my wife randomly selects a king/queen for the day in her fifth-grade class-- so every kid gets a turn to be a classroom monarch and as such, they are entitled to certain privileges . . . they get to sit in the teacher chair, they choose a prize from the prize box, they get to be first in line AND they get to make five rules for the day-- and these are the (quite impressive) rules that her first queen created:
1. Everyone had to adopt a food-based nickname (Tasty Taco, Ms. Sushi, Dr. Brownie, etcetera)
2. If you had to throw something out in the garbage, you had to moonwalk to get there;
3. If you left the room, when you re-entered, you received a "silent celebration"
4. If you had to sharpen your pencil, you had to proceed to the sharpener in slow motion . . . I really enjoyed this rule as it is reminiscent of "the lead game"
5. At the end of the day, there would be a paper airplane competition . . .
and my assessment: these are rules to live by, and I will be instituting them in my class (and from this time forward, please refer to me as Mole Poblano).
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