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Growing up in Highland Park, Billie Eilish and Finneas developed the bulk of their creative tendencies while being homeschooled by their parents. With no particular curriculum to follow, they approached each lesson with curiosity toward whatever sparked their interest at the time. Needless to say, it took them pretty far. And now, Eilish and Finneas can say they have spent time in a classroom — but as teachers, not students. On the latest episode of the digital series Celebrity Substitute, the duo takes over an elementary school class at Highland Park’s Garvanza Elementary.

Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas were the latest A-listers to appear on Celebrity Substitute, a series where celebrities drop by elementary schools to play substitute teacher for the day.

Arriving at Garvanza Elementary in Los Angeles, the pair of Grammy-winning songwriters were tasked with teaching a first grade class how to write a hit song. The kids, predictably, were off the walls when Billie and Finneas show up, with one student even asking “Am I dreaming right now?” and another noting that they saw Eilish performing on TV with red hair. Finneas started playing some piano chords, and the students weighed in on which chords they liked best.

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They eventually cycled through some potential song topics, which included ghosts, Kendrick Lamar, or something “freaky,” per one student’s suggestion. The group landed on the topic of snow, and decided to write a song about a...