Wait, there's a school here?

My blog STILL isn't working correctly so again, sorry about the lack of spacing. On Friday I observed at a catholic school in Normal called Epiphany. I actually took my parents to the church for Easter mass last year. I had no idea there was a school there too! It's an elementary school and a junior high school. The teacher that I am observing teaches 5th grade in the morning and junior high language arts in the afternoon. Their baseball team made it to state and apparently the entire junior high got to go and watch it, so I couldn't observe them in the afternoon. There were a few pretty comical instances though that I want to mention. The first thing that the students were assigned to do was create a MISSING poster about the missing princess in the book that they have been reading. One of the students asked "Is it sort of like a WANTED poster?" The teacher responded that it sort of was except that the princess was not wanted, she was missing. As the students worked on their posters, another student asked "Instead of writing WANTED, can we put MISSING?" The teacher responded "She's NOT wanted, she's missing!" hahaha. As I was looking through the students' language notebooks, they had a page called "the memory hand." On this page they traced their hand and then had each find be an emotion, such as excited, upset, angry, and nervous. The emotion was written on each finger along with a memory that corresponded with that emotion. One student had written for his anger memory "angry-when I chocked on a grape." There were some other pretty funny things written in their notebooks, such as one girls "I love..." heart that included bunnies, 5th grade, Justin Bieber, Miley, and apples. I also followed the students to their half hour Spanish lesson with a different teacher. These 5th grade students were probably better at Spanish than most of the Bartlett High School Level one Spanish students are. I hope that they offer Spanish in my middle school now because when I was there we had French in our rotation classes, which means that we took it for a few weeks and that was it. Personally, I think that everyone should learn a foreign language. I mean, if we are required to take subjects like science and math and social studies in high school, why shouldn't we also be required to take a foreign language class too??