Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Surviving the silliness of the afternoon before a long weekend

here is the story that my kiddos and i wrote this afternoon. just to prepare you, i am a teacher that lets my kids get pretty silly... and the ending will come later.

Once upon a time, there was a mama fish. She was a large goldfish. Her name was Shinybeth. Her home was in the seaweed of Baldwin Lake. Once day she had 6 tiny babies. She named them Elizabeth, TootToot, Nemo, Allison, Henry, and KittyCat. Nemo was white and orange. He looked like a clown fish. TootToot farts all the time. He had a poke-a-dot on him that sounds like a toot. Elizabeth is blue with sparkles. KittyCat is a medium size fish. He is bright orange with dark orange stripes. Allison is the most beautiful fish ever. She has large blue eyes but had to wear glasses. Henry was the last who was born. He was the smallest and there was something special about him. He had an extra eyeball on his large green tail fin.

Shinybeth took here 6 children to the playground for a fun afternoon in the sun. Toottoot was living up to his name and tooting all over the place. Little did they know that sharks liked the smell of TootToot's toots. Soon there were many blue hammerhead sharks swarming around the playground where the 6 fish were playing.

Monday, October 11, 2010

surviving 4th graders questions

setting: 1:00pm, my classroom with all the students (13 of them) for music class
things to remember: our school has no air conditioning

the conversation happens as such
i am up at the board telling the something profound about the music they are learning for the christmas program.
one of the 4th graders: "miss s, what is that wet stuff under your arms?"
me: "that would be sweat"
the student: "oh"
the rest of the students: "giggle, giggle, tehehehe"

me: slightly embarrassed