quotes / laughs

classroom life can perhaps best be described by those that make me laugh the most. a few examples shall suffice.

a few weeks ago,
me: “guys, it’s september!”
chris: “nooooo, we don’t like september because virus is stronger.”
everyone is super paranoid about the swine flu virus. my kids get their temperatures taken twice every day.

each morning we do the date and weather.
janice - “what is today’s date!”
henny - “today is fried egg day!"

during date and weather, the actual date is a little high on the wall and they need help. sometimes i throw the laminated velcroed numbers against the walls. the number falls or lands upside down. the kids laugh.
max - "Nooooo, be careful, the 17 is not a toy."

during the writing portion of our monthly test.
Q: What are some things that you have that would like to keep forever?
A portion of his essay, Jinseok, 2nd grade, describing his Nintendo Wii,
A: "You can do lots of sports on that you can do golf, baseball, boxing and almost all the sports. And you can do like kind of activities is like clean the toilet or bring the sheep to another place and farting race. If you get first on the finish line it shows you win or did not win. Also you could shoot the bad fat birds and like flush the toilet a billion times untill you are finish flushing all the toilet but it is really hard to let it flush down cause it can be a big poop and cant go in and that the toilet can be broken so you have to fo fix it. so thats why it is fun and I want to keepet for ever."