At the end of the day, the elementary students have a study hall period where they can finish any work they may have not completed. When all their work is handed in, they may read chapter books, play chess or Bananagrams, or, if everyone is done, they sometimes enjoy a game of occupation. Their "jobs" become more and more creative as the year moves on. The spelling improves, (because we read and pronounce them
exactly the way they are spelled), the science terms emerge, and they diligently probe their minds for an unusual, hard-to-guess "job". The lists get funnier and weirder.
This week my husband handed me this list of their "occupations".
the astronomer
the skunk catcher
the folder
the goat girl
the secriterry [sic]
the lamphrey
Shawna's engine
the bird catcher
the mean girl
the slicky (actually a type of bird)
the space explorer
Trevor (another student)
the pancake head
