Living It Up: Teaching Kindergarten

(WSVN) -- Kids: "We are Living It Up with Jackie Johnson!"

Jackie: "And I'm going to be a kindergarten teacher for the day, I've got 19 kids and I'll be teaching them reading and math, get those number 2 pencils ready and be quiet, we gotta learn."

Jackie: "Alright Mrs. Schwab, what does it take to be a kindergarten teacher?"

Pam: "Well it takes a lot of organization, a lot of patience, and a lot of actual school, we all go to school in undergraduate for elementary ed, and a lot of us go and get our masters."

Jackie: "and what do you think the hardest part about teaching is?"

Pam: "The hardest part about teaching this age, and most ages is keeping them in control."

Jackie: "I saw the secret hand signal, what is that?"

Pam: "Secret signal, secret signal. In kindergarten, we do this here in this school so that they all get quiet as quickly as possible."

Jackie: "Okay I think I'm ready to start, what am I going to start off on?"

Pam: "We are going to start with the morning message."

Jackie: "All right, who would like to show me what day of the week it is?"

Pam: "Lily."

Jackie: "Lily."

Lily: "Wednesday."

Jackie: "Oh, very good it's Wednesday, it's only a few more days to Friday."

Pam: "Who thinks they can show Ms. Johnson a number story?" Some kids raise their hands.

Kid: "2 apples and then 2 more came back."

Jackie: "So 4 apples?"

Kid: "2. 2 and then 2."

Jackie: "So that makes..."

Kid: "4"

Jackie: "Very good."

Jackie: "Who else has a number story?"

Girl: "2 rabbits came to me and 1 more came back."

Jackie: "3, so 3 rabbits, she had 2 and then one more came back."

Girl: "Want me to sing for you?"

Jackie: "Go ahead sing for me," and a girl sings, "Tomorrow."

Girl: "Now we can hear you sing."

Jackie: "Oh, I can’t sing. Oh, you don’t want me to sing. The camera might break, we don’t want that."

Jackie: "So how do you think I did today?"

Pam: "You did a wonderful job. They really had fun."

Jackie: "And you usually give them stickers when they're good.

Pam: "Yeah, when they are good, they get stickers."

Jackie: "Hey, it wasn't that hard Living It Up as a kindergarten teacher for the day. A big thanks goes to Mrs. Schwab and her kindergarten class at Jacobson's Sinai Academy."