Wednesday, March 9, 2011

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."

Friday, March 4, 2011

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

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

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?"

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

What do you want to do for Valentine's Day?

"I want to do a valentine's day because we get candy and we deserve nise stuff and it's the day of love and when we give people nise stuff they feel like they want to cry because it's the day of love and when they get the card from you and when they open the card they will love it. love is good." 

-Third Grade Boy

Monday, February 7, 2011

Did you know...

"Did you know that if you have black eyes or brown eyes then you can speak Spanish?"
               -Second Grade Boy

Thursday, February 3, 2011

English phrases can be confusing...

Third Grade Girl: "Can I have some more crackers?"
Me: "No, you already had snack"
Third Grade Girl: "But I can't hold it!"
Me: "What?"
Third Grade Girl: "You know, I can't hold it. I really need it. I can't hold it. I need some crackers"
Me: "You need to go to the bathroom?"
Third Grade Girl: "No, I am hungry. I can't hold it!"


Apparently she thought, "I can't hold it!" is to be used whenever you really want something, not just when you really have to use the bathroom.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

What is the perfect age?

"I want to be age 17 so I can help my dad. I want to help my dad so he won't have to come home in the nighttime and he will be home sooner."

- First Grade Boy