Smarter Than a 5th Grader?!?
Written by Beth Blair on September 12th, 2008 | 2 CommentsWhat I really love about September is that none of the erasers have been chewed off the pencils. Yet.
The last blog that I wrote has a comment from Esther asking if I have cued in all of the grades yet. That’s funny because my colleagues joke that we should, by now, be smarter than 5th graders because we transliterate in Elementary school year after year. It is random information: the water cycle, regions of Virginia, tectonic plates, decimeters, and the lyrics to every Tom Chapin song. As this new school year gets underway, I still love going to First grade to cue “Water travels in a cycle, yes it does… Water travels in a cycle yes it does… It forms clouds as condensation, comes down as precipitation, and goes up as evaporation… yes it does…”
Hopefully my job won’t get “old” until I get old. By then I hope to actually BE smarter than a 5th grader. Or at least to have won the million dollars.
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- Beth Blair is a Lead Cued Language Transliterator for Fairfax County Public Schools. A 1985 graduate of California University of PA, Beth has been in the "Education Business" for 23 years: Teacher, Preschool Director, Cued Language Transliterator. As the mother of two college kids and wife of a mailman/Army Reservist, Beth's free time is spent watching reality TV shows and reading.
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March 19th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
I read your post and the song that hit me comes from kindergarten (I think???) to the tune of Head, Shoulders, knees and toes…. “head, thorax, abdomen, head, thorax abdomen, eyes, ears, and mandiiibllle, head, thorax, abdomen!! Being a transliterator is one of the coolest jobs in the world.
March 20th, 2009 at 9:08 am
And my all-time favorite: “The 50 Nifty United States!”