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Joe Dombrowski
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- THE STORY BEHIND THE PRANK: I'm a Mermaid . Me, 29, teaching 5th grade and absolutely loving it. Scratch that. LOATHING it. This class of kinders were my saving grace that year. I had always wanted to teach K, but was labeled "An Upper Grades Teacher" given my track recorder of teaching 4th, 5th and 6th. So, the class in this video was actually my very good friend's classroom. I would spend most of my lunches and prep hours helping out in her class reading to the kids, running a station from time to time, overall just learning how feral 5 year olds are when they're away from their parents. The answer: Extremely feral. . This particular group had a great sense of humor. They also worked very well together and had a strong interest in gaining more knowledge about anything you'd teach them. Their teacher had done an incredible job setting up the expectation of "time and place." They were aware that fun times in class had to be in a safe, respectful, school-appropriate way. They very much respected the teachers' boundaries. AKA the perfect class to unleash some april fools chaos on. . This idea came to me after falling down a rabbit hole of videos of people cosplaying as mermaids. I was truly mind blown watching these merpeople flop around the beach like a Pike Place Market salmon being thrown on ice. Their tails by the way, upwards of $25k. So basically my teacher salary. It was too good not to take inspiration from. The next day I walked in, sat down, and WAS a mermaid. I still might be for all you know *SPLASH*