January

Photo, courtesy of Christianne Taylor Photography

During a conversation about how great Costco is, one student said, "I LOVE COSTCO!" and another said, "Costco is SO GOOD to us!"
January 4, 2010

"Did you know that at night I sleep like an angel?"
January 5, 2010

After slowly lunging around the room with a congo line of sorts behind me, one student said, "It's like we're from the Old Testament!" (referring to the Wall of Jericho)
January 6, 2010

During our Playtime at the end of the day, I happened to overhear two students saying, "Oh! For goodness' sake!"
January 7, 2010

When the kids went out to recess, there was bird poop on the swing, and so they shouted, "BIRD POOP! FRESH FROM THE OVEN!"

Later in the day, one student asked if he could clean out his desk "right now because it's a wreck. It's like a ship blew up on the beach. It's THAT messy!"
January 11, 2010

I happened to overhear this conversation between two students today:
Student 1: "Ew! Your breath stinks!"
Student 2: "So does yours!"
Student 1: "It smells like hot soy sauce."
January 12, 2010

While lining up for Chapel, I went over our Chapel rules with the kids and asked, "Are there any questions?"
One student raised his hand and said, "Your hair is behind one ear and not the other."
January 13, 2010

During our Spelling Pretest today, one student raised his hand after I had called out the word "fall" to say,
"Hey! Miss Cunningham! Did you know that Friday starts with an 'f' too?"
(At least he didn't spell the entire 4-letter word! PHEW!)
January 14, 2010

While the kids were doing a project for MLK Day, creating outfits for their paper dolls, I told them, "Wow! You are really good at this! You should be fashion designers!"
One student said, "Ew! No! I don't like fashion designers. They always try to do spiky hair!"
January 16, 2010

With all of the rain, I had a brief chat with the first graders about the possibility of losing power and how you can't see thunder, but you can hear it, etc. Their excitement level shot through the roof with this discussion, so I began whispering, to try to bring down the volume of their excitement. One of my students said, "You don't have to whisper, ya know. The thunder and lightening can't hear you!"
January 20, 2010

Student 1: "I'm SO LUCKY. I have my own pocket knife!"
Student 2: "I have my own BUTTER knife!"
January 21, 2010

"I LOVE SCHOOL! School is my favorite subject!"
January 30, 2010