Just wait!

From a couple of first grade boys:


Mrs Y - Girls are so confusing!  They ask us to chase them then get mad at us when we do! What should we do?


Rather than say what I really wanted to say ("Oh honey - just wait) I put on my grown up hat and instead said "I'm so glad you stopped when they asked you to.  Why don't you go play soccer?"


Hopefully they'll think about those words 10 years from now.

New member of the Rat Pack?

I passed the line of Kindergartners going to lunch and casually said "have a good lunch!"  One little guy responded with "you have a better one". 


Pretty sure if he knew  to wink and point at me he would have.  Might even have called me "doll".

spring fever

"Spring fever" = teacher speak for "kids gone wild".

Nah nah nah nah boo boo

 Apparently "Nah nah nah nah boo boo" is still the thing to say when you want someone to chase you on the playground.  The more things change, the more they stay the same. 


What does it even mean? And how in the world did that get started?!

Splash

Due to a huge puddle at the bottom, I closed the use of a slide on the playground. One little guy, thinking he was being very persuasive said "what if I promise NOT  to go in head first?"


Haha - was that his original plan??  I have to keep my eye on that one!

Meat and potatoes

From a5th grade boy:
:Mrs Y - what's that thing called where friends get together and make fun of another friend?  A steak?"  


Took me a minute to figure out what he was getting at. "  "A roast,, you mean?"  


"Haha. Yea.  That's it."

Wake up!

"Numbers make me tired" - 5th grade math student


How many times have we all thought THAT???

Things they don't teach you...

Two first grade girls came up to me on their hippity hops announcing their plan to bounce around the entire play field every day because they  want to be fashion models.  "That's fantastic"  I told them "you will be really healthy!"  Their reply took be aback: "We don't want to be healthy.  We want to be skinny". I took a deep breath (more like several) before I went on.  "Well you will have great muscles and endurance.  Good for you!"  They hopped off, I'm sure  thinking I totally missed the point.  That's OK though.  I didn't miss the point at all - just tried to change the direction of it.