One liners from the Classroom

3rd Grade boy: "Ms. Craig, today's Ash Wednesday."
"What are you giving up?"
"My brother."

1st Grade fashionista: "Ms. Señorita Peffer, I love the ribbon in your hair. You always wear matching stuff. Everytime before I come to Spanish class, I stop and think, 'I wonder what Ms.Señorita Peffer is wearing today!"
"You do not!"
"Yes, I do!"
"You're unbelievable."

8th Grade class: "Ms. Peffer, why were you mad at us the other day?"
Me: "Oh, you remember that huh? That was before the snowstorm. That was a long time ago."
"Yah, but you wouldn't let the sub give us candy. She had candy for us!"
(everyone always remembers when they're denied candy, but NO one remembers the homework assignment)

Kindergartner: "Woah Ms. Peffer. Your sweater looks SOFT!!! (proceeds to feel my sweater...across my chest)
"WOAH!" and grab his hand and guide him into the classroom.

Kindergartner, greeting me as he's walking into the middle school for computer: "Hi Sweetie!!"

8th Grade
Me: "You're suppose to be working. The answers are in your book. Why isn't your book open?"
Boy: "I have x-ray vision."
Me: "Ummmmmmmmm..........I hope not......(as I almost felt the need to cover myself)
Boy: "Uhh...uhh.... NO! Ms. Peffer! For my book, only for my book..."
Me: "Man, you're turning red!"
Boy: "tsk...I can't turn red, I'm black!"
His best friend: "yah...you're red man...."
Girl: "Who knows what ELSE he'd do with it..."

Me: "man, she's been absent for a long time. I wonder if she's boycotting school."
Boy: "I'd get in so much trouble for tryi.....
Me: "  NO! She's not really...
Girl: "Oh my word. She's probably sick. Come on Mickey!"

And the best of today....
   I've sent the 8th grade back to the middle school while I grabbed my computer and jacket. RIGHT as I step outside, I see the 8th grader who always gets caught pick up a clump of snow.

I yell across the parking lot, "1 DEMERIT!!!"
And to myself, " Yesssss! Thank you Lord!"

Laughs at school

I'm teaching my 3rd graders about masculine and feminine words. Of course, they all think that there are now "girly" words and "boy" words. Only girls can use the girl words, and boys the boy words. It works well with people, all the -a ending words are for females. That makes sense. It gets a little confusing when we switch to objects, and they start to think that only boys can use soap (el jabon) and only girls can sit on a chair (la silla.)

After the lesson, Ben says to me... "I'm really glad that skirt is faldA and not faldO." (because if it was, boys would have to wear skirts.... ;-)


2nd Grade- when the kids are learning or relearning over 200 vocabulary words each year, they get them mixed up. So, I'm trying to give them little word clues to help them remember. I'm giving them little hooks to hang their memories on.

The word for farm is granja. I told them to think of what is grown on a farm (grain) and that would help them remember that farm is granja.

So on Wednesday, I asked 2nd grade, "what is farm in spanish?" and after pondering a bit, a boy replied..."wheatalones?"

Stay tuned for more laughs at school...

A series of strange events...

Today was the most bizarre day, and it all happened in the last hour of the day.

At our school we have extended care. Normal, all day teachers don't work this. Who can tolerate the kids at the end of the day for ANOTHER 3 hours after teaching them all day? These kids want to be home. They know they should be home and they go crazy.

For the last 3 days I have worked with 2nd and 3rd graders in extended care because Danielle has been on Spring Break. It has been interesting and stretching. Definitely not making a career change, but it's been okay.

We were all outside today and in the matter of 5 minutes, 3 children got hurt. One girl ran STRAIGHT into a tree, and in the matter of her coming to us, she had a goose egg the entire width of her forehead and blood coming from her mouth. I ran in to get ice while another teacher ran to get her grandma who works at the church. 1 minute later, a girl is SCREAMING on the foursquare court. We run over and find out a kid "threw a rock in the air and it hit her" right below the eye, and she had a black eye by the time we got there. A teacher ran her into the school and got ice. 2 mins later, I hear kids yelling for a teacher and find a kindergartner down for the count after running into a metal pole when chasing someone. He was fine, but we still had to write an accident report for him. About 5 mins later, another kid gets hit in the face with a foursquare ball that has been kicked. He cries and then gets back into the game. Another kid falls flat on his back from the top of a monkey bar thing. His mom was there, and he jumped back up after laying there for a minute, so we didn't have to really deal with that one.

We all felt like it was a horrible dream. Every time we turned around, someone else was hurt. After the 3rd one, I just couldn't handle it. It was such an out of body experience. They were dropping like flies---literally. I thought it a joke after awhile. I thought they were teasing us.

So, moral of the story-don't let kids play on playgrounds. Make them just sit and they'll be fine.

:-)

Kids say....

3rd Grade:
Me: Don't be so dramatic, it'll be okay.
Girl: Yah, don't be a drag queen.
Me (a very quick correction) Drama. Drama queen.
Girl: Or a king, a drama king.
Me: Right, drama king. (phew!)

Kindergartner: You look neat! (what K kid says neat??)

Me to Kindergartner: I like your Pumas. They are really cool. Can I wear them?
Kindergartner: No, they are too small. They are only in kid shoes. But, I think they sell human sizes at the store too.

I look at a 1st grader while I'm teaching, and he's looking at me cross eyed. I stop, look at him, and wait for him to focus. He snaps out of it when he sees I'm looking at him, as if he's not weird for doing it.

Kindergartner: Ms. Senorita Peffer, are we having our siesta today? I'm soo excited for our siesta!! (um...no, it's a fiesta. But, I'd rather have them all come take a nap. That'd be fine too.)