Last Day of School

We were working on a memory book today, for the last day of school, and one of questions is about your favorite book. I'm wandering around, helping kids spell their favorite books, when Jarod comes up to me.

"Mr. Graham, how do you spell Twilight?"

"Reeeeeeealllly?" I'm thinking to myself. "I mean, reeeeeaaaaallllly?"

"Okay, Jarod," I reply. "It starts with that /tw/ sound. What letters do you hear?"

"Oh, never mind, Mr. Graham," he says. "I'll just get the book and copy the title."

He walks over to grab Magic Tree House #19, called Tigers at Twilight.

"Oooohhhhhhhhh, right."

Classic.

hic! hic!

Today, the penultimate day of school, there is a child in my classroom with the hiccups. Unfortunately, he sounds EXACTLY like the snake in Disney's Robin Hood, after he gets stuffed into the barrel of beer (wine?). The juxtaposition is pretty hilarious for me.

In which I discover why my hands are sticky

Before lunch the other day, I washed my hands before taking the students down to the cafeteria. We got through the lunch line and settled down at the table. I was circulating around the table, monitoring the class, and halfway through lunch, I noticed that my hands were really sticky. It seemed odd to me, since I wasn't eating anything sticky. Hmm...

I washed my hands and went back to lunch. From across the cafeteria, I observed Sandy relaxedly drawing a line of jelly taken from her sandwich, onto my Snapple bottle (she's a very tactile child). Ohhhhhkay. Right-o. "Hey, Sandy...."

Houses are expensive!

Overheard during choosing:

"Man, that girl Sylvie is lucky. She just moved into a house that has a pool in the backyard!"

"Oh, she's lucky!"

"I know! Those houses are expensive! Like a hundred bucks!"

"Like three thousand!"

"Whoa!"

Do you know how they make cookies and cream?

"Mr. Graham, do you know how they make cookies and cream ice cream?"

"um?"

"They make the ice cream, then put the cookies in, then put the cream in."

"Did you know that ice cream is, well, made out of cream?"

"Wait, what? That true? (sic) Really?"

So then we had to go on and watch a video about how to make ice cream.

I love my job.