Kids Say the Funniest Things!
Posted by Sharon M. Tresino on 26 Oct 2009 | Posted in: Inspiration and Motivation
Just the other night, my area of the country got its first heavy frost of the season. The following morning, I picked up my godson to take him to preschool as a favor to his parents. I always enjoy my time with my godson, but this particular morning was extra special. As I drove him to school, he suddenly asked me, “Where did all the frosting come from?” I had no idea what he was talking about. At first I thought he had found a treat packed in his lunchbox. Then I realized he was looking out the window and pointing to the cars parked alongside the road. As I came to that realization, he asked, “Who put the frosting on all the cars?” After chuckling for a few moments, I did my best to explain frost to a four-year-old. I’m not sure I succeeded, but at least he now knows it isn’t frosting on the cars.
I’m sure you’ve had moments with your students that caused you to chuckle too. Please share; I’d love to hear them! After all, the best medicine for anything is laughter. And when you interact with children, laughter is definitely the icing on the cake!
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Last weekend we turned back our clocks one hour. When I got to school Monday one of my 5th grade students asked me if time was going faster or slower now.
Last December we experienced bad weather so school was cancelled for the day. When we returned the principal came over the intercom and announced that we would have a make-up day the next day. A student turned to the teacher and said I don’t want to have make-up day because I don’t want to wear make-up to school!!
In my first grade class today, we were learning about past and present communities. He wanted to draw his picture with black and gray because that is how everything looked back then!
The other day I was chatting with one of the older students, who is a very dramatic and artistic third grader. I was asking her about her Halloween costume. She said she was going to be an angel. I said to her, “That is not a costume for you! You already are such an angel.” The student smiled, giggled and graciously thanked me. Then she added, “Why thank you so much. I will just enhance my costume then.”
In our fine arts class, we were making props for the play we were going to perform for the families. The children were making coconuts with baloons and paper mache. One child said to the other, “You are all sticky!” To which they replied, “No I’m not, I am full of pastry! This smells like pie.”
A few weeks ago as I was sitting and eating snack with my 3 and 4 year olds, one of the little girls (who thinks that every time I eat a piece of fruit it’s an apple!), asked me the notorious question: “Mrs.T., is that an apple?” I was eating a peach so I said to the class, “Boys and Girls, how can we tell that what I am eating is not an apple?” One of my chubby cheeked little munchkins blurted out, “Because apples have seeds and yours has an armpit!” My aide and I got a great chuckle out of that one…at least she knew the word pit was in there somewhere!
Several years ago I worked as a teacher’s aide in a kindrgarten class. One of the Mom’s came up to me and told me that she and her daughter had been taking about school and how it was going. She told me her little one really liked the Teachers Maid!
One morning in the three year old class, we were singing songs about senses and things like that. One kid said “lets do that again” and then one of the boys turned and looked at the clock and said “I dont think we have time”. I just laughed. It was so cute.
While doing a craft project with my home childcare children they began to discuss where their parents worked. All of a sudden one of the little boys asked, Mrs. Betty, “Where do you work”?
I was doing some kindergarten pre-registration last year at school. I asked the little girl I was testing if she knew her address. She looked at me seriously and said, “Yes, the one I’m wearing is a play one, but when I go to church, I get to wear a real pretty one.” At first I was confused and then realized she thought I had asked her about her “dress.” I got a real kick out of that one.
I was sitting with our three year olds, working on our letters with 3 of the children when Tasha** just blurted out “Alex** is my half boyfriend” curious i asked “what is a half boyfriend?” she just looked at me with such a plain face and said “Oh i share him with Kiersten**” all i could do was laugh and then tell her mom when she came to pick her up!
** NAMES HAVE BEEN CHANGED**
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I am a specialized reading teacher and one day when I was working with one of my second grade groups I turned my back to get a dry erase marker for the next part of my lesson and 1 little boy was making noise in his seat, I of course, said “______, please sit still in your chair.” He immediately asked, “How did you know it was me making the noise?” To which I replied, “I have eyes in the back of my head!” A little girl said “No you don’t! You can’t have eyes in the back of your head!” The little boy replied “Yes you can, my mom does!” The funniest part was that he was dead serious. He truly believes that his mom has eyes in the back of her head.
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One of my students was sitting at the art center
for quite some time working on a project. When he
looked up at me with a puzzled look and asked….Why is my foot buzzing? I looked under the table and realized he had been sitting on his foot the entire time. His foot had fallen asleep!
after completing a theme unit on penguins last january,i saw one of my 3 and a half year old students looking out the window at a neighbour*s roof where some cypriot crows had gathered.she was very excited and pointed to them saying…hey look mrs.mary the penguins are here visiting our school!
While playing with one of my 4 year old students who was being particularly silly I said to him, “you are such a comedian” without hesitation, and looking puzzled he said “I’m a lizard?” I said “No, not a Chameleon a comedian” Who would of guess he was good at word play as well as slapstick!!
Last week a group of my students was playing a math game that required them to roll a special die that had pictures of the heads and tails of various coins. After rolling the die, they had to find the coin that matched the picture on the die. I was checking a student at my desk when I heard my intervention specialist say “That’s not Jesus, that’s Abraham Lincoln!” One of the students had commented that they had just “rolled a Jesus!”
Earlier this week I read the book “Alphabatics” to my students as we prepared for a performance by the African Acrobats. In the book, the letters “acrobat” into something that begins with the letter sound. When we got to the M page, the M “acrobats” into a mustache. I asked the kids how many of their dads had a mustache and several raised their hands, including one little one who’s dad doesn’t have a mustache. When I looked at him a bit puzzled, he said, “Well, my grandma has a mustache.”