Monday, October 21, 2013

The Amazing Traveling Grandma!

After reading a book called "Life in the Ocean", a student comes up to me.

Her: "Mr. Graham!  I think my grandma went to Atlantis!"

Me: "Oh?  Why do you think that?"

Her: "Wait, what does my shirt say?"

Me: "Niagara Falls."

Her: "Oh.  She went there!  And bought me this shirt!"

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Kids say the darndest things, 2013

Two things that make me chuckle today:
-during our morning analogy ( map : cap :: ? : ? ), we discussed rhyming words.  Rowen quite innocently came up with "map is to cap as lap is to crap".  Totally correct, of course, and apparently kindergartners don't know that "crap" is a naughty word, because no one giggled.
-after lunch, Makaila was quite concerned because she had some "dark bus" stuck on her shoe.  I was confused for a moment because she rides the bus home after school, but when she helpfully explained, "like, the small wood pieces" the fact that she meant "bark dust" became more apparent.