This post has been long overdue...I've been writing down funny quotes from the kids on random scraps of paper, and I'm sure I've lost some along the way, but here are the few that I have left.
Giving a spelling test.....
Me: "hoof" I heard the horse's HOOF on the trail.
Student: "hoof"? Isn't that the sound you make when you sneeze?
I was reading the story Titanic to the kids (we got it at the book fair, but still a tragic story for 1st graders). We had gotten to the part where the boat was going down and all of the women and children got on the boats and the men stayed behind. This led into the following conversation....
Student 1:"Mrs. Hardie, isn't that kind of mean to make all of the boys stay on the boat?"
Me: "Well, it's something people call chivalry. When you're a guy, sometimes you let girls or people smaller than you get to safety first just because."
Student 2: "But ACTUALLY it's because boys are stronger and smarter and so that's why they stayed on the boat because they can swim better and they know more stuff than girls, right?"
Me: moment of silence....."let's see what ELSE this book will tell us about?" :)
One of my little ASD kiddos loves to learn new phrases and then say them over and over and over....this week his new phrase to say when he gets mad about ANYTHING is "That's an outlage!" (I'm pretty sure he means outRAGE--hehehe--but it's so cute!)
I overheard 2 little boys having this conversation on the carpet one morning.
Boy1: "Did you hear that Bretty Favre is a grandpa?"
Boy 2: "What? I don't get it..."
Boy 1: "You know....he's a grandpa. He has a grandkid."
Boy 2: What? You mean like BEFORE he played football?"
Today we read a great story, "When I Am Old With You", about a little boy and all of the things he likes to do with his grandpa. We were discussing the story when one of the kids asked a great question...
Student 1:"How will the boy and grandpa BOTH be old together?"
Student 2:" Well, the grandpa is probably about 46, and then when the boy gets to be 46 he will be old too and the grandpa will still be old."
46?!?!? Sesrously?!!?
These kids definitely keep me on my toes....8 more weeks!
