May 2012

A debate with a student about the routine of the day led me to ask him the question, "Who's the teacher? Who are you going to trust?" and he responded with, "THE LORD!" Had to give him that one. :)

"Did you know that my cell phone can call old people, like the ones from the Bible?"

"I'm talking so much I forgot what I was saying..."

A student and I were talking about how we will be singing tomorrow for some guests that will be coming to our classroom and she asked,very concernedly, "What if someone is allergic to singing?" 

One student was telling me how she had seen a heron in the morning before getting to school and another chimed in and said, "Oh! I saw one of those, too! And also....wait.....what was my also?..."

Two students read together and compared their reading speeds. One said, "We're like the same temperature! We read at the same speed!" 

One student said to another, "Hurry up! I'm growing old!"

Two students were swinging on the swings, talking about how fun it will be to grow up together, go to high school together, and have the same job. Then one said, "What do you wanna do when you grow up? Teach people about Jesus?"

A group of girls were playing Truth or Dare at Playtime and would come perform the dare in front of me and another teacher. One dare consisted of the group shaking their booties from side to side while the leader of the pack chanted, "Booty to the left, booty to the right, booty to the left, booty to the right. Booty, booty, booty, booty, booty, booty, booty!" I almost died laughing!

Upon seeing a tented house in the neighborhood where our school is located, a student said, "Look! The circus has come to town!"

While lining up at the end of lunch today, a student (who I hadn't spoken with the entire lunch) raised his hand to tell me, "And also, sometimes I need a wet Q-tip for my ears because I get wax in them."

Student A got hurt and her knee was bleeding, so I asked Student B if she could help be Student A's crutch as we walked over to Carline. Student A said through tears to Student B, "Thanks for helping me. You're a really good friend." My heart melted. :)

A student came to tell me, "When I am older I am going to build an academy and it will have lots of rooms in it....I will be the principal and maybe my parents will help me too...but they'll probably have beards by then and be pretty old..." I said, "Well, hopefully your mom won't have a beard, but maybe your dad will..." He responded, "Well...they'll just be crippled..."

"I wish you were the teacher for every grade because you are so nice and then I could have you every year."

One student said to another, "Can you push me that item that's underneath your desk? It happens to be my shoe."