SWINGS!

I was swinging on the playground with my kids today (the playground is set at the corner of Thunderbird and a residential street).  One of my girls was standing in front of me watching when all of a sudden she yelled out, "FIREMEN!"  I said, "what, what are you talking about?".  She said, "behind you Ms. Robison, there are firemen over there."  SO OF COURSE, I had to look.  I tried to kind of turn and look behind me (because I was swinging) to take a nice little look at the firemen.  As I almost fall out of the swing, I see that they are behind me, but in their firetruck.  So, I almost fall flat on my face and didn't even get a look at the firemen :(

What is Your Name?

Student: “What’s your real name?

Me: “Ms. Robison, that is my name.”

Student: “No, like your REAL name, your other name.”  (emphasized)

Me: “Well, Ms. Hayden I guess.”  (although these students have never known me as Ms. Hayden)

Student: “Ok, that’s your real name then.”

I don’t know where or how this came up, but I think maybe they were meaning to ask me my first name.  After this conversation, life in the classroom went on as usual, and they have not referred to me as Ms. Hayden…yet.  I just wonder, what they do with this information?

How Old Are You?

Often my kids will ask me how old I am.  I have never felt it necessary for my kids to know this (especially when I was teaching at the ripe old age of 21).  The past few years, when they ask me how old I am, I take my real age and reverse it.  This often brings up some interesting conversations.  Today was no exception, and my kids this year have finally asked my age.  So, I told them I am 72.  All believed me (usually I have some skeptics) and one responded with, “Dang, you look good!  You look like you’re 32!”.  My thought: Wonderful, I look older than I really am L  At least to them I look young…

Date

Notice anything wrong with this date? I had this on the board all day yesterday and none of my kids corrected me...SHOCKER!

Cockroach!!!

About a month ago, 10 minutes before school got out, a student said, "Look Ms. Robison, it's a cockroach on the wall."  We all looked up and were shocked.  I told the kids to pack up, no filling out agendas today, and we would just hang out outside for the last 10 minutes of school.  At that time, the cockroach (probably about 2 inches long) fell off the wall!  We all screamed and ran out of the room.  After the bell rang, one kid needed to go back into the classroom to put his glasses in his desk.  He informed me that the cockroach was now on the floor by his desk.  I found a teacher that uses an electric scooter sometimes and she said she would run over it for me!  As we went back into the classroom, the cockroach was running around.  I think he sensed that his life was doomed.  He ran underneath a table.  As I was moving the table, the teacher ran over it and all was good.  The teacher left me and another teacher to pick up the dead thing...when I leaned over the just cover it with a paper towel (because I am a girly girl and couldn't actually pick it up), it RAN away from me!  I couldn't believe the dang thing played dead!!!!!!!  The other teacher and I screamed at the top of our lungs and were running around.  Finally we found a can of Raid and chased this thing until it lost it's life to the poison!  My job description now consists of pest control duties...haha!  Who would have thought...

Since that day, we have found 3 more cockroaches in our classroom.  Luckily for me, these were all already dead.  The death toll is rising...

FUNNY

What a day, what a day!  My students were on a roll today with their amazing comments!  

During our multiplication lesson, which they are quickly and surprisingly catching on to (yay), I got so excited that I told them, "You guys are SO stinkin' smart!'.  They responded with, "what's that mean?"  O WOW!!!!!  Now, I know they know what smart means, but we immediately had to go back to our adjective lesson (that we just did last week), and review describing words.  Maybe next time I will rethink the adjectives I choose to use with them :)

On our way back to class from recess, I will often chit chat with my students.  Rarely do they ask me anything personal, but today was an exception.  One student asked, "Ms. Robison, do you paint your hair?"   haha, I knew exactly what she meant and just responded with a quick "yes".

Bad Day

Student:  This is gonna be a bad day for me!

Me:  Why?

Student:  Because my skin is falling off and I have hairy hair.

Me:  Silence...............................

KEEP OUT

As I was working with a group at the table behind this 'construction site', one of my students built this.  I looked up from my table and wondered, and asked, where this student was.  He was nowhere to be found.  I got out of my chair, in a tiny panic, looking for my little guy.  As I walked around his desk, I found this fort that he made. It consists of 2 folders, each with e "keep out" sign posted on it, and his desk chair.  He was laying on his belly under the chair, quietly reading his library book.  Apparently some students don't like to be bothered while reading...SHOCKER!