The Big Word for Rain Storm

I was teaching The Water Cycle to my 4th graders.  I asked them what happens after the water condenses in the clouds.  They all responded with, "It RAINS!"  After which I asked  "Well does anyone know the BIG word for rain?"  One of my students looked at me and practically shouted, "RRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
IIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNstorm!"

There was no way I was holding that laugh in!  This is why I love teaching!

Water is what we got!

 

Andrew and I teach the 4 year olds at church every Sunday!  Those kids can say some pretty funny things.  This one day we had a visitor from another congregation.  He informed us that his teacher always has snacks for them.  One of our boys turned to him and said, "Oh yeah, Well, we have WATER!"  

Who knew that trip to the water fountain every week meant so much to them!

A new meaning for the word, BAND-AID!

I was at my friends house this weekend and she cut herself with some scissors. She asked her two year old daughter to go find her a band-aid. Her daughter came back to the living room repeating, "Band-Aid? Band-Aid? Band-Aid?" When we looked down to grab the band-aid from her, we realized she had brought back a TAMPON!

Well, that is not quite a "band-aid."

But, I guess if you think about it, it could be considered ONE!

I don't know, I just did!

Imagine two cute little four olds whispering out of the side of their mouths while reading this story. They looked just like the boy pictured above, only they were not in the pool, they were at church in shirts and ties.

I teach the four year olds at church. It is a joy of mine that I look forward to each Sunday. Today we were talking about Easter which is coming up next week.

"Ok, guys, is finding eggs the reason we celebrate Easter?"
"NO!"
"Is candy the reason we celebrate Easter?"
"NO!"
"Well, then what is the reason we celebrate Easter?"

One of the boys quickly answered --
"Jesus is the Reason we celebrate Easter!"

There was a moment of silence and then the boy sitting next to him leaned over and whispered (out of the side of his mouth,)
"Hey, How did you know that?"

The boy who answered leaned back to him and whispered,
(out of the side of his mouth)

"I don't know, I JUST DID!"


The funniest part of this story really is not in what they said, but how they said it! It was just too cute!

I am Ariel

I sang in church today.
A dad told me this story afterward about his daughter....

He told me that while I was singing, his three year old daughter held perfectly still. She then turned to him and said, "Daddy, she is as pretty as a princess."
He asked her, "Well, which one? Which princess?"
She looked at him as if it was such an OBVIOUS answer, "Daddy, she is Ariel of course. She is the one that sings!"

I have always wanted to be Ariel and now, I AM!

Sense of.....

In Science today we were talking about our ears and all their different parts.
When I came to the semicircular canals, which are three loops above the cochlea,
I explained how they are there to help with our balance.
But this is how the conversation really went down.....

"Ok, everyone, these are the Semicircular Canals.
They are there to help with our sense of.....

"HUMOR!"

Which is what I heard before I was able to say BALANCE.
I stopped and looked at him and just started laughing.
Then the rest of the class joined in the laughing.

We then continued to crack a few jokes about our
semicircular canals and them messing up our sense of Humor!

You know, like, when someone is trying to be funny and they just aren't cutting it, you can always just blame it on their

SEMICIRCULAR CANALS!

they always seem to get in the way!

Baking Soda!

We were working on compound words in class one day. I gave the students a worksheet that had the FIRST part of the compound word and they had to find the second part. One of my students looked up and said, "Man, Mrs. Walker, I really wish that Bacon was one of the words on here." I thought to myself for a second and then asked, "Bacon? Bacon? Why bacon? What compound word starts with Bacon???" She looked at me and said, "You know, Ba-con Soda!!!!" It took me a second to know what she was talking about and then it clicked...."Bacon Soda?? You mean, Bak-ing Soda!!!!" Oh gosh that was a good one. It kept me happy ALL day!

For those of you that know me, you know that I love to fill out my brackets for March Madness. The last couple of years I have brought it into my classroom. I have had each of my students fill out a bracket and I have entered it into ESPN. I make sure to teach them the "lingo." I teach them what each of the numbers stand for. How the teams are matched up together and how if a lower seed, which is a higher number beats a higher seed which is a lower number it is called an UPSET. This year, it has been pretty fun! Last Thursday, when it all started I had the computer on ESPN during Art. When they were done with their project they were able to go check scores on the different games. Here are some fun things that happened...

At one point I had about five kids standing around the computer, every so often one of them would update me on the score. "Mrs. Walker, there is only 30 seconds left and so and so is in the lead." Then anothe student, a girl, who really doesn't know much about basketball came up to me and said, "Mrs. Walker if Murray St. wins it is going to be SUCH AN UPSET! HUGE UPSET!!" I am so glad that I can teach them ALL they need to know about life.

Last story from THIS day, there will most likely be more about March Madness to come....
At the end of the day Thursday, four games had completed. One of my girls ran up to me and shouted, "Mrs. Walker, I have three of the four correct. I AM A GENIUS!!!!!!!"

Oh, I love March Madness!

Daddy, I'm just a little girl

One night, when my niece was three, she was having a hard time going to sleep. Her Dad called her downstairs and told her she had to go to sleep and to try anything she could to do just that. He said, "COUNT SHEEP, COUNT COWS, COUNT ANYTHING, just go to sleep!" My cute little niece turned around and started walking toward the stairs. Under her breath, she muttered, "I can't count Daddy, I'm just a little girl!"

Makes me smile every time I think about this story!

Band-Aid?

I was over at my friend's house watching Smallville. One of the characters got a injury on her head and it was bleeding. My friend's two year daughter went up to the TV with a band aid in her hand and starting putting it on the TV when the character was on the screen. The two year old kept saying, Band-Aid? Band-Aid? Such a caring little girl!

Holy Moly

One of my students likes the Holy Moly phrase. One day I said something pretty shocking. He looked up from his paper and shouted, in a country hick accent,
"Holy Moly Canoli Scholie!"
He stopped, looked down at his paper,
and said under his breath to himself,
"Hmph, That was a good one!"
He then repeated to himself,
"Holy Moly Canoli Scholie!"
He was so proud of himself. I will admit,
I was pretty proud of him as well!

Dodgeball Day

I was wearing a Hawaiian shirt to school because the teachers were having Hawaiian haystacks for lunch. One of my students, Kathy, came up to me and asked, "Mrs. Walker can it be Hawaiian Day!" I responded, "Sure, why not. It is Hawaiian Day!" She ran off really excitedly and turned to one of my boy students and cheered, "Hey, Charles, Mrs. Walker says today is Hawaiian Day." Charles paused in his steps thought for a minute and stated very matter of factly, "Ah, today is Thursday. It is Dodgeball Day"

Nobody should ever mess with Dodgeball Day!