So there are these super adorable twins in my class. They are 5 years old and native Spanish speakers, learning English in school. They are so funny, and sweet but also mischievous! They're already pulling the twin switcheroo trick! The entire class (the kids, my assistant and myself) confuse them. But I finally found a way to tell them apart, because one of them is a little chunkier than the other one. Even with this knowledge we still get into debates over who is who. It doesn't help that when you ask them they say yes no matter which name you're saying. "Are you *Juan? You're Juan right?" "Yes" says *Julio. He even gives you a reassuring head nod. Their parents gave them these gold medallion necklaces w/ their names engraved on the back, but they don't wear them everyday. I suppose it gets tiring having people scramble towards your neck and damn near choke you just to find out what your name is. Also it's not really easy to tell their personalities apart either because they switch days of behaving themselves. One day Julio’s great the next day he's all over the place, but I do think Juan is the more rambunctious one.
Anyway, today Julio was crying and stressed b/c his brother went "missing" (Juan was in the bathroom w/ two other boys but didn't tell anyone where he was going. According to the boys there was an iguana (more like a newt) in the restroom and they wanted to go back and see it, maybe in the frenzy and excitement to see the iguana, they "forgot" yea right to ask the teacher for permission. Juan was found and back in the classroom he had to change his color on the wall from green to YELLOW!
Ok for those of you who might've forgotten what it's like to move your color from green to yellow, it's equivalent to pinning a vibrant scarlet letter A right on your 5 year old chest, or walking into church late: stressful, uncomfortable and mostly embarrassing. So after kinda pretending like he didn't know what I was talking about Juan stands in front of the behavior chart for like 2 minutes (a painfully long amount of time for a five year old) and tells me that he changed his name. Then his brother comes in and says, "No, not me Ms.C." as he pointed at his brother and shook his head vehemently. Juan changed Julio's card on the behavior chart! I looked at Juan who offered a faux-i-dunno what happened shrugs, then guiltily changes his card. These kids are unbelievably smart.
Anyway, today Julio was crying and stressed b/c his brother went "missing" (Juan was in the bathroom w/ two other boys but didn't tell anyone where he was going. According to the boys there was an iguana (more like a newt) in the restroom and they wanted to go back and see it, maybe in the frenzy and excitement to see the iguana, they "forgot" yea right to ask the teacher for permission. Juan was found and back in the classroom he had to change his color on the wall from green to YELLOW!
Ok for those of you who might've forgotten what it's like to move your color from green to yellow, it's equivalent to pinning a vibrant scarlet letter A right on your 5 year old chest, or walking into church late: stressful, uncomfortable and mostly embarrassing. So after kinda pretending like he didn't know what I was talking about Juan stands in front of the behavior chart for like 2 minutes (a painfully long amount of time for a five year old) and tells me that he changed his name. Then his brother comes in and says, "No, not me Ms.C." as he pointed at his brother and shook his head vehemently. Juan changed Julio's card on the behavior chart! I looked at Juan who offered a faux-i-dunno what happened shrugs, then guiltily changes his card. These kids are unbelievably smart.
*Names have been changed.
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