quotes

here are some of my favorite february classroom quotes. enjoy. 

2.1.12

i have the pleasure of having lunch duty in the cafeteria everyday.

"mrs. s, is this snot?" (pointing to yellow squash)

"excuse me?" 

"is. this. snot.?"

"no, it's squash."

"well whatever squash is...it looks and tastes like snot." 

(in her defense...it kind of did look like snot.)

2.6.12

draw something that begins with an 'n'. one of my favorite kids draws a ninja.

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so i ask...."what is that between his legs?"

answer? "his penis...but don't worry, it's covered with green cloth" 

(shouldn't have asked.)

2.7.12

"some girl put up her middle finger at the superbowl show...and she didn't say she was sorry. that's bad."

(hey, if a 5 year old knows it's bad...how is it the 35 year old that did it, didn't know it was bad?) 

2.8.12

"mrs. s...can i tell you something special?" (whispering in my ear)

(whispering back) "sure."

stands back from my desk, hands over her head and yells..."IT'S HUMP DAY!!!!!"

when i began laughing, she said (looking confused)..."well, that's what my mom calls wednesday..i don't know why!"

2.9.12

a random present from a student. a ginormous pickle.

why? "because pregnant ladies like pickles..."

(true....i took a bite out of it before i realized i should've taken a picture.)

free journal writing

"i see a key."

(oh, a key...glad it's not what i thought it was.)

2.13.12

abe lincoln's birthday is on sunday, feb 12th. on the 13th, i passed out a worksheet with a picture of him in the center of it...along with other info about his life. one of my students receives the paper, and yells out..."HEY!!! I KNOW THIS GUY...I SAW HIM AT THE WAX MUSEUM! HE WAS STANDING RIGHT NEXT TO BEYONCE!" (yessss.)

2.14.12

valentines day. draw a picture of what love is.

i don't know why, i just love this picture!

2.17.12

"my sister can burp her ABCs!"

"wow, what a talent!"

(very seriously) "yes...she's very smart."

2.21.12 

after a long weekend, a little girl saunters over to my desk and exclaims...

"so i went to Chucky Cheese yesterday and saw chucky but he told me he needed to go take a nap because he was sick of all the kids."

(sheesh. chucky must've been having a bad day!)

free journal writing

i like hot pockets. (me too, richard...me too.)

2.24.12

we are doing a "world's finest chocolate" fundraiser where the kids sell candy bars for money. i asked the students to raise their hands and let me know who needed to go down to pick up their box of chocolate.

one little girl raises her hand and bursts out..

"I NEED TO GET MY BOX OF CHOCOLATE! MY MOM SAID WE ARE GOING TO SELL IT TO ALL THE FAT PEOPLE WE KNOW!!!!!!!" 

(i tried not to laugh out loud...but i couldn't keep it together.)

2.27.12

we read the story "the little engine that could" on this day, and as a follow up the kids had to draw a picture of the hardest thing they ever had to do, or something they had to try over and over until they succeeded. here are some of their pictures:

climb a tree

catch a butterfly

do the monkeybars

spy on ants

i was blown away by their 'answers'...i guess mainly because of their innocence. i mean, i wasn't expecting them to draw a picture of themselves writing a mortgage check, or buying a house, or getting a job...but do you remember the days when the hardest thing you ever tried to do was catch a goddamn butterfly or spy on ants!? i want to go back to those days...don't you?

"A day without laughter is a day wasted." -Charlie Chaplin