Peanut butter jelly time.
An elementary school teacher smartly used food to teach her students a lesson.
Kayleigh Sloan teaches a creative writing class to first and second-graders.
To teach a valuable lesson about where the youngsters went wrong with their assignment to write about how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, she decided to get creative and make a sandwich following the instructions they wrote.
And things got quite messy.
In a viral TikTok video — which has garnered 53 million views — Sloan said to her class, “I’m going to read some of your responses on how to make a pb&j and then I’m going to copy exactly what you’re writing says.”
“The first one says — you get bread, you get peanut butter and you get jelly. Did I make it?” Immediately after the teacher asked that, a collective “no” was heard from the class. “That’s not how you make it!” shouted the students.
Sloan read another response that instructed her to “put the bread flat.”
“Alright, it’s pretty flat. I feel like that’s good,” she said after pressing the bread down on the table.
Sloan continued reading, “Spread jelly and jam on the bread,” in which she dunked her hand in the jelly jar before smearing it on the packaged bread.
She did the same thing on the other side with the peanut butter, and the students shrieked at the sight.
“That’s not how you make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich!” one adorable student shouted. “That’s what it said to do,” responded Sloan.
The lesson got messy when Sloan read another assignment that told her to “Put on peanut butter … wait I need to put it on?” Sloan asked the young bunch before rubbing the messy food all over her arms.
“Okay, it’s on — am I done?”
“You’re doing it wrong!” a voice in the video is heard saying.
“So we just did a whole lesson adding detail to our writing,” Sloan pointed out.
“Understand why you have to have detail — did anybody ever mention a plate or a knife? All I did was exactly what you told me to do,” the teacher explained to her classroom.
“The students were mind-blown,” Sloan told Today.com.
“Words are so important and can easily change the meaning of what we’re saying. That’s why I was so literal with the instructions,” the teacher continued in the interview.
And this lesson is something that Sloan said she does every year — and it seems to always get the job done.
