Super Hero

I wore a necklace to school today that I had not worn this year. It is a jade circle with black string that is from China. One of the boys came up to me and asked if I was 'air bender'. I guess it has magical powers!

Boy, Girl, or Other?

I normally do not go inside the bathroom with the child, I wait out in the hallway while the girls finish up and line up in the hallway. Today after being sneezed on I decided to sneak in and wash my hands at one of the 3 sinks. The following dialogue took place

Child: "Teacher, you cannot come in here!"

Me: "Why not?"

Child: "You are not a girl!"

Me: "What am I then?"

Child: " You are a teacher!"

Other child: "She is a girl and a teacher!"

Child: "No she is not!"

What starts with 'O'?

Going through a diagnostic test with our PreK children we show them the letters of the alphabet, ask them what letters they recognize, what sounds they can make, and what words start with each letter. One of our little ones gets to the letter O, and states the correct letter, and the correct sound. I ask him a word that starts with O, and he states "Oh, snap!"

Gotta give it to him on that one!

Why don't we use the metric system?

On the bus driving back from a field trip, two of my kids are talking about how big an inch is. One girl holds up her fingers measuring roughly an inch, and asks me if this is how big an inch is. I answer yes, and decide to make this a teachable moment, and expand to tell the girls how there are 12 inches in a foot, marking the length with my two hands. The girls follow my explanation, and when I finish speaking, one of the girls pipes up earnestly, "well how many inches are in a hand?"
Where to begin.....

Where the lost things go

I had a five year old helper as I cleaned up today and whenever we found something that had no owner, he declared confidently, "this belongs in the lost and fountain!"

How many jobs does your dad have?

Talking to one of my girls today she was explaining that her dad used to have a different job. I mentioned his current job, and she told me "my dad has two jobs". I asked her what these two jobs were, and she answered "Playing with me and going to school". I told her that would be three things, to which she pondered for a moment, and said "you are right, he has three jobs!"

Dad's Occupation

One of the boys in my class has a father who works with the major league baseball team in town. On Friday there was a game, and the boy looked up and told me he wouldn't see his father that night because his dad had to do liver stories. He repeated it, liver stories, that he had to count and do math and make sure everything was right. Ah...INVENTORIES. makes sense.

Religious Terms

As we were doing journals last week, one young spoke in her story of a character who "Signed up the Cross". I was a little confused, but kept writing. A few minutes later I realized she was referring to the "Signs of the Cross".

What is a marine?

At the park today, the kids were intriuged when a group of marines stopped from their morning jog and began to do exercises on the playground equiptment. They were in the middle of doing chin ups, pull ups, etc. when one young boy exclaimed to his friend "those are the strong boys who like to eat hot dogs!". The school had a yard sale the previous weekend and apparently lots of these strong boys came by for hot dogs.

What is a marathon?

Reading a book, "Dogs can't run marathons", we ask the children if anybody knows what a marathon is. One little boy quickly raises his hand. When called on, he answers "a marathon is when they show sponge-bob over and over and over again".