Some fun stories

So in science we are teaching about living vs. non-living, which seems like kindergarten stuff, but it has created some funny comments. One in particular has to do with the fact that for something to be living it has to reproduce. Now we thought about the best way to approach this and decided to say that the living thing needs to be able to create more of itself. This definition satisfied everyone when we were introducing the topic. However, a little later my students were sorting a list of things into "living" and "non-living" and they came across "school teacher". At first one of my students, T, was just joking around and saying "oh Miss Collett I think you are under "non-living". But then a few other kids starting thinking about it. One girl asked, "Miss Collett you can reproduce?" I said that I could have a baby and that satisfied her concern. However, this had now become a classroom discussion and one student asked, "But then how are men living?" I about died laughing. How do I respond to that? I mean they can't have babies. :) So I said, "Well they help" and then I said, "You know what... ask your mom." I got a few funny looks, but they finally let it go. It still makes me laugh out loud though.

We have art every Friday afternoon and this week we did hand prints with paint onto a big canvas. Well of course paint is messy and so I had them go to the bathroom to wash their hands. Then a little later one girl came up to me and said, "Miss Collett there is paint all over the bathroom. I did NOT know how disgusting girls could be." They way she said it killed me. I went into the bathroom and sure enough there was paint all over the walls, sink, and floor. I promptly had everyone take a few paper towels and clean up.

Finally, I thought of another story that happened a little while ago. T came walking into class one morning very quiet, which never happens. He is usually causing a commotion 5 minutes after he has walked through my door. I swear the kid is friends with everyone and anyone, which makes it hard to sit him anywhere. Anyways, after a little bit he came up to me holding his sweater zipper and asked me if he could use my tape. I could tell he was embarrassed. I asked him why he needed tape and he said that his zipper was broken and he wanted to tape his sweater. I asked him what was underneath his sweater thinking he could just take it off, but he simply replied, "skin". I laughed at his response and realizing why he was embarrassed found a safety pin to pin it closed. This kid always keeps me laughing and on my toes.

Hope you have a good week!