4.30.10 // charlie and the lego factory..! no, wait...

the lego animation class i'm teaching is going pretty well so far. okay, not gonna lie, i'm only doing it because the pay is good. there's a reason why i want to teach college kids and not elementary schoolers, they are such a handful! they may seem sweet at first but when they start to get comfortable around you is when you need to watch out. they will test you to no end. today i had a group of 4th and 5th grade boys who spent the last half hour of class making prank calls. >_< couldn't really spend too much time trying to stop them because there are other groups that need me, but oh well. if they want to waste their parents' money and not have a film, that's their choice.

other than the troublesome boys, i have a group of all girls and they are the sweetest little things ever. currently the kids are supposed to be building sets for their films, and the girls are the only ones who have finished so far:



they started out with a 'prince of persia' lego kit, and their story is about waffle-eating ostriches and an evil dictator who decides to cover the world in candy. so cute!

this tarp was covered in legos when we first brought them out. and then about five minutes after the kids got to them...



only the boring pieces are left now. legos control a room better than any teacher can, that's for sure.

dee had her performance of 'willy wonka and the chocolate factory' tonight. mike teavee...hilarious. even though she told me every single bump in road they came across while rehearsing [there were tons of them] the play didn't turn out too bad for a middle school production. the kids all tried, and you could tell they were having fun.