I’ve been thinking a lot about teachers lately. We’re a month into the new school year and both my kids love their new teachers. Yay! I’m working hard on creating a teacher’s guide to my first book and also writing my school visit presentations. (Can’t wait to get back into classrooms!)So I thought I’d reminisce about one of my favorite parts of teaching.
I taught preschool and kindergarten and when you are with the under six set not a day goes by when you don’t hear something priceless! Here are my top seven favorite student comments:
1. Child: Guess what! My mom got pregnant this morning!
2. Child (during afternoon recess): Look the moon is in the sky! It must be the Olympics! (He meant an eclipse.)
3. Child (after stowing mittens in the pockets on the front of her winter coat): Look! I got boobs!
4. Child one: What kind of baby do you think your mom will have?
Child two: I don’t know. It could be a boy. It could be a girl. Or, it could be a bunny.
5. Child one: Did you know that when your mom has a baby sometimes they cut her stomach open?
Child two: Eeeeew! They see her food!
6. Child: Did you know that sometimes my mom has yellow boogers?
7. Child: Mrs. Teacher, what’s your name again?
When I was teaching something brought a smile to my face everyday. (Although that happens being a parent and a writer, too.)If I thought I could handle my momming load and my writing load along side a teaching load, I’d do it in a heartbeat. Hat’s off to the many men and women who accomplish this amazing feat!
Any teachers or parents out there have their own great lines to share?
Once when I was subbing a 2nd grade class, I asked them to guess what a word from their story meant: “darted.”
Child: It’s like when you lose a game and you say “Darted!”
He meant “darn it!”
Thanks for the laughs!
LOL Those are great! 🙂
Good chuckle. Kids are more wonderful than they’ll ever know. I couldn’t handle teaching, momming(great word) and writing either – one of my fav. comments
when I was student teaching was when
a kid called me Mrs. Goldrock (I’m in fact, Mrs. Goldstone.) 🙂
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-gabe
Cheryl and Gabe, those are so funny!
Gabe your comment reminded me of a year I co-taught with a teacher named Mrs. Hoffman (and I was Mrs. Meyerhoff.) Once child started calling us both Mrs. Hoff. It was easier.
Hi PJ! Hi Jess!
Jenny
I had a preschooler run up to me and shove his finger in my face, yelling, “Teacher, teacher, smell my finger!”
I, of course, was leery of such a command, so I pulled my head away. He laughed and said, “I just had it up my butt!”
No, I didn’t think it was funny and banished that kid to the dungeon. He might still be there….probably writing stories about the mean teacher. 🙂
Those are hysterical!
I think you’ll only get this one if you’re Jewish…
Last year my daughter’s preschool built a sukkah for Sukkot and each day as we walked into school, I’d say, “Look at the sukkah!” and she’d reply, “It’s a square!” I’d compliment her on her grasp of shapes.
It wasn’t until the third day of this exchange that she finally said, “But if it’s a square, how come you keep calling it a CIRCLE?”
This was before she learned how to say her “r” sound properly. “Circle” sounded just like “Sukkah” to her!