"Mama! "The teacher chose me to be a reading buddy to the new girl in class," Phoebe announced, dropping her rucksack with clear delight in this task.
"And James gets to feed the class hamster next week!" James said, virtually jumping with anticipation for his next classroom job.
"Both of you are being trusted with important duties," Grace noted, observing how their teachers had noticed the children's developing reliability.
When Max returned home that evening, he noticed that both children had turned their homework into an impromptu teaching session, with Phoebe painstakingly explaining arithmetic ideas and James demonstrating his newfound ability to sound out difficult phrases.
"What's going on in our home classroom?" he inquired, settling in to observe their academic engagement.
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