March

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When doing a journal entry, one student chose the writing prompt for describing the youngest person you know.
He then asked another student:
"(Student's Name)- are you young?"
March 1, 2010

When a sick student stopped by school to pick up his makeup work, another student (who wasn't sick) said,
"Feel better (Student's Name)! Every day!"
March 2, 2010

I asked the first graders for an example of temptation today.
Here was an interesting answer:
"When you go into a chocolate factory without asking."
March 4, 2010

When telling the kids to keep their eyes glued to a turquoise phonics chart that they were supposed to be reading, one student said,
"My eyes are glued to (Student's Name)'s curly brown hair! That's all I can see!"
March 5, 2010

While reminding a child that he should not be facing his friend when sitting in a timeout, he said,
"But my shadow is facing him still!"
March 8, 2010

When playing a computer game, one student said, "My hands are so nervous!"
March 9, 2010

When noticing that an ice pack said "Hot or Cold" one student was voicing his confusion and another one logically explained,
"Yeah, you know, like when you don't put it in the freezer and you put it in the trash can, it heats up!"
March 10, 2010

While the kids were busy writing in their journals, I made a phone call to the Kindergarten teacher to ask her to bring something to our Big Buddy activity today. I heard one first grader say,
"Shhh! You guys! Let's hear what she is saying!"
Then, right when I hung up, he asked me, "What were you saying?"
I said, "Oh, just something really important," and he responded with this guess, without knowing what the phone call was about: "Juice?"
March 12, 2010

When asking students if they had tried a spelling website that I had shown them to practice their spelling words last night, one said,
"I started to, but then my computer broke. It almost electric-shooted (electrocuted) my arm!"
March 16, 2010

I wore a skirt to work today for the first time in awhile, and on our way to class, a student said,
"Miss Cunningham, your knees look different. They used to be brownish and now they look whitish."

"If you're Christian and Irish, then you're Christ-rish."
March 17, 2010

When taking prayer requests at the beginning of the day, a student asked for prayer for his brother because
"he has bracelets [braces] on his teeth and some robot stuff [I'm assuming retainers] in his mouth that makes him talk funny."
March 18, 2010

"Pray for my brother, because he has mechanical stuff in his mouth and they put cement on his teeth so that the braces never fall off!"

As we were lining up at lunch today, one student came up to me and said,
"I love you!" and I responded,
"I love you, too!" and then he announced to the entire playground,
"I SAID I LOVE YOU TO MY TEACHER!"
March 19, 2010

While taking prayer requests, a few students reminded me of ongoing prayer requests that we have for a little girl named Daisy, and a little baby boy named Caedmon. Then one student said, "And Acorn!" (which is apparently a country that had an earthquake)!
March 23, 2010

Statement: "Ouch! My butt hurts!"
Response: "Why does your butt hurt?"
Answer: "I've got wood chips in it!"
March 25, 2010

After being annoyed with something that the other kids were repeating over and over and over and over again, one student said,
"Stop, guys! That's ignoring [annoying]!"
March 26, 2010