I have had morning bus duty this week, and this means that I stand out in the hallway at a certain spot to monitor students who have been dropped off by the bus or by car. The students sit out in the hallway waiting for the bell to ring. Once the bell rings, the students go to their homeroom teacher's class.

This particular week, my assigned spot in the hallway is with Pre-K on my right, 4th grade on my left, 1st grade on the other side of the hallway facing Pre-K, and 5th grade in front. I'm standing at an intersection of two hallways so I can monitor them all and they have plenty of room to sit on different walls and in both hallways.

I'm learning some of the Pre-K students' names - there's Kyler, Mason, and Harley (Harley's a girl). Kyler brought one of those small plastic kid swimming pools this morning... and told the teacher that he is going to do all sort of tricky dives into it once they have their fun day and the pool has water. He told me that he can do back flips into that pool. Picturing him and others next to him that were going along with him doing dives and back flips into that super shallow plastic pool was just hilarious.

A little later on, a 1st grader got on a role and told me all of this stuff that he can do. I asked him, "Have you ever caught a bear?" He said, "No... but I've killed one." Where? "Up on Windrock with my gun." He then went on to tell me that he can do a belly flop into the pool. I asked, "Can you do a double belly flop?" He said, "Yes ... I can do a back flip and land with a double belly flop."