Learning English

Jingle Bells...

K-5 Girl: (as she points to the sky) Miss Laura! LOOK! White stripes in the sky!
Me: I see. Planes leave those behind when they fly by.

K-5 Girl: Ohh...I thought it was Santa!

Buggys in Cubbys ...

Me: "What do you have in your hands?"
K-4 Girl: "Nothing..."
Me: "Let me see"
K-4 Girl: "It's a little buggie"
Me: "Okay, but you need to take him outside. He can't stay in here with us."
K-4 Girl: "Yes he can. I want him to. I am going to keep him and put him in my cubby at school."

Smell...

First Grade Girl: as she sticks her nose in my hair, "Miss Laura, your hair smells good?"
Me: "It does? Well that's good."
First Grade Girl:  "Yeah, it does!" she then grabs my hair and shoves it under my nose, "Here, smell!"

A singing bird...

Second Grade Boy: "Miss Laura, you're a singing bird!"
Me: "What?"
Second Grade Boy: "Yes, you are a singing bird. Yep!"
Me: "Why?"
Second Grade Boy: "Yes, cause you look like a bird and you sing with us"
Me: "I look like a bird?!?"
Second Grade Boy: "Yeah...duh."

A Brown Teddy and an Apricot Teacher...

Two of my second grade boys were working on a timeline of Theodore Roosevelt's life:

Second Grade Boy1: "Teddy is white"
Second Grade Boy2: "What? I used brown!"
Second Grade Boy1" "Yeah, he is white. See, here is his picture."
Second Grade Boy2: "Miss Laura, Miss Laura! Teddy is white, and I drew his Mom brown! I didn't know. What do I do. Do I use this white crayon?!"
Me: "What color am I?"
Second Grade Boy2: "White"
Me: "Do I match that crayon?"
Second Grade Boy1: "No. Ummm...You are peach! You match this one...well kinda. Oh! Maybe you are apricot! Do we color Teddy with the apricot crayon?"

For the next couple of minutes the two boys keep trying to match my skin color and their skin colors to the crayons

Valentie's Day

Me: "What did you do at school for Valentine's Day?"
First Grade Boy: "We had ice cream!"
Me: "What kind?"
First Grade Boy: "We had strawberry, and chocolate, and....umm...the white one!"
Me: "Vanilla?"