They Do Say the Darndest Things!

Well friends, my absence lately has been well-merited.  I've been wrapped up in the world of 2nd graders and grad school, keeping my plate very full.  I absolutely love my internship so far.  Yes, there have been some very tough parts, and some things that really take getting used to - but I think that I have been placed exactly where I'm supposed to be.  My students are so much fun, and so sweet (for the most part!).  I'm still learning how to use my stern teacher voice and enact consequences for bad behavior while still showing them that they are cared for and that I want to see them learn - it is an interesting balance to find.   Needless to say, I'm having a lot of fun, and a few embarassing moments well.  One of the funniest things about students this age is that they seem to have absolutely no filter - they literally say whatever they are thinking...because I find this so humorous, I want to attempt to catologue some of the entertaining (unwittingly so) comments I have heard from the mouths of these kiddos...for posterity's sake I suppose.  However, with my increasingly limited time for anything even slightly recreational, I haven't written here since I started my internship and some of my best stories will have slipped through the cracks.  I have a tendency to facebook my funny kid stories, rather than blog them, so that my fellow teacher friends can appreciate them.  I will share a few here though and hope to add more in the future....

Talking about no filter....

Student R came up to me...
R: "Teacher can I go the bathroom?"
Me: "Ok, you have one minute and I'm timing you" (this is common practice at my school gives them incentive not to be playing around in there)
R: "Can I have 3 minutes, I have to poop!"

While sitting in the teacher's chair and reading to the large group, I suddenly felt something and looked down only to find that a little girl was rubbing her finger on my legs (covered with nylons)....

During a read-aloud, one of my (male) students raised his hand, right in the middle, to ask me,
"Teacher have you seen that one movie about the twilight people who suck your blood? and they glow in the dark! "
Side note: there's another little boy who wears a Twilight t-shirt, often, and I can't help but think that he will regret that when he grows up.  Also, for spring break one of the little girls was soooo excited because her family was taking a trip to Forks! I can't help but laugh, because Forks is about the least interesting place in the world, especially to any of us who grew up near it - but, that doesn't seem to stop those vampire-wannabes.

Of course, now that I sit down to write about them, I can't remember all the funny stories.  But these kids do make me laugh on a regular basis, so hopefully I'll be able to share more often.

Also, kids love to give gifts...so far I have received: a drawing of a panda, a drawing of an armadillo (apparently, I wouldn't have known until it was explained to me), a bunny sucker, a Spongebob sticker, half a pair of sunglasses (yes, I said half), 4 NutriGrain bars (I finally had to tell the kid to stop bringing me them! poor guy, he loves to share), a grubby handful of sweaty Mike n Ikes, and a snail.  Life is good. haha.