Hips?

We were working on short i sounds, and one of the words that came up was "hip". One student had some musings about that:

"Mr. Graham, what do girls have that boys don't? Is it that? Hips? Or is it thighs?"

Wow.

"But what ARE bleachers?"

The classroom is coming together at the beginning of the year, and they're starting to remember how to work independently. During writing time, I was working with a student at one table, and I heard this interchange at the table behind me:

Two girls, singing softly under their breaths: "She wears short skirts, I wear t-shirts, she's cheer captain, and I'm on the bleachers!"

And then one asks,

"Wait, do you know what bleachers are?"

"Yeah, of course!"

"... well, what ARE they?"

It then turned into an involved discussion of various different sporting arenas.

[Pop culture note: this is a Taylor Swift song called "You Belong With Me". Lyrics here]

True words

In reference to a character from Avatar:

"I don't know who that is! If I don't know her, I don't love her."

No idea of the context:

"If I'm not alive, then you're not alive because I'm older than you!"

They're back!

Overheard while passing out bananas for snack today-

"Mr. Graham, can I have that extra banana?"

Me: "Nope, I don't have enough for everyone to have seconds."

I turn away, and behind me, I hear this:

"Well, who gets the other one?"

"His wife!"

"Nuh uh! He ain't got one!"

"Is it 'cos he's not grown-up?"

"Yeah, he has a mom and a dad."

"You can have a mom and dad and be grown up!"

"He doesn't have a wife?"

Hoo, boy, back in the saddle.