More First Gradeisms

This week was a long one. We had parent teacher conferences on Wednesday and Thursday which means that I was at school from 7:30 am to 7:30 pm and then had to go back and teach on Friday. I think my kids could sense that it was going to be a long week so they gave me somethings to laugh at. So here they are...

One of the boys in my class came up to me with a mini water bottle. He said "Teacher, sometimes my throat gets clogged and my mom said that I should drink this when that happens." I was thinking, a clogged throat, wow! I told him he could keep it at his desk. When his mom came to parent teacher conferences she saw the water bottle. I told her about his 'clogged throat' and she just laughed. She said that he had told her he was thirsty and she told him to get a water bottle. I guess her response wasn't dramatic enough so he had to spice it up!

Next, my students all wrote a story and then they got to type it and we published it. One of my really bright students wrote this great story about going to California and the beach. They were playing and going boogie boarding. Then they drove a while to their grandmas house. They were going to celebrate FOURCHENLY!!! (just like her story, all in caps and 3 exclamation marks). She said that she loved fourchenly. It was an awesome story with periods and capitals and just about every single word was spelled right (which is amazing for first grade) but I was really wondering about this mystery holiday so I asked her what they do to celebrate fourchenly. She said "ya know like the parades and the fireworks'". It was all I could do not so just start laughing. Oh... The Fourth of July. Oh course I didn't tell her and when her mom read it she just about died laughing.

February being dental awareness month, we had some wives of dentists come put on a presentation. When they were finished we went back to class and I handed out a little packet with a toothbrush, toothpaste, those tablets that show were you missed, and some stickers. One of my little girls turned to her friend and said "this is the best day EVER!" Who would have thought a toothbrush beats out candy, parties, Halloween and even Christmas.

And my FAVORITE for the week. Bob (we'll say that was his name) comes up to me at recess and says "Suzie made me kick Joey in the privates." I looked at him and said, "Bob, can Suzie really make you do that. If you kicked Joey then it was your choice." He then looked at me and said "I can not resist the puppy eyes." hahahahahahahaha Wow, this kid has the best excuses. I bit my cheeks REALLY hard and said "Well you better learn how to", sent him to sit and think about it, then turned around and just laughed.