After her crayon broke, the kindergartner spent several minutes digging through the crayon bin when she held up a nicely sharpened one and exclaimed "Here's one that's charged!"

Cute or sad? Not sure.

Just protecting his parts...

Today a 6th grade boy and girl were kicking a soccer ball back and forth to each other.  I heard him say "make sure to keep it on the ground".  When she aske why, he paused for just a second and responded "there're are less vulnerable parts down there".

Point well made.

If the shoe fits...

I'll admit, my patience was a little thin today:

"Mrs. Y - W's shoe is stuck in the basketball net!"

"Unless his foot is still in it, you'll need to figure out how to get it down. If his foot is still in it, I'll help."

Yea, spring break really can't get here fast enough.

She loves me, she loves me not, she loves me, she loves me NOT

"Ugh....Ewwww...grossssss" the 6th grade girl screamed as she ran off the play field at recess.  I had a couple of theories (bug, snake, boys' bodily function to name a few) but my question was answered by her smirking friend.  "Someone just told her they love her".

So much worse than I had imagined.

Do you promise to tell the truth, the whole truth...

After giving her friend some misinformation (about how to log on to a web site), I overheard one kindergartner say to her friend - "I'm sorry.  I said the truth wrong".

I guess with that way of thinking, we can always tell the truth.  Even if it's wrong.

Math

When one of my kindergarteners was clearly procrastinating doing his work by telling me "math gives me a headache", I suggested that maybe If he focused on his work he would forget about his headache.  His "really?!" could have meant one of two things:

A.  Mrs Y - you are so clever. Thanks for the advice.
B.  Mrs Y - I may be 5, but I wasn't born yesterday.

Pretty sure it was B.

Frogger

As we were stopping and starting to make our way through a soccer game in order get across the playfiled, I mentioned to my 2nd grade companion "this reminds me of a game called Frogger".  Realizing Fogger came in the early 80s, I was pleasantly surprised when her response was "I love that game!"

High Fives to Maddie's parents!

Perspective

Favorite quote of the day (overheard from a group of kindergarten girls):

"No one is perfect. Not even princesses."

These girls have it figured out.