just a few pictures...

A little note exchange between me and a student. She asked for a piece of paper to write me a note...so I played along. She wrote in red, I wrote in blue...

Stick figure + Watermelon = a student's perception of me prego..

Journal Prompt: What will you do when you're an adult?

Journal Response...

Some other responses included (but not limited to):

"I will spell big words"

"I will ride a 2-wheel bike"

What does a telephone help you do?

This was a question for morning journal one morning. I quickly realized that students today have never lived in a world without CELL phones. My first response to a question about a telephone would have something to do with a home phone...However, they have only grown up around smart phones...

Response 1:
It helps you call your friends. It helps you send messages. A telephone helps you do stuff. A telephone helps you get drecshins [directions].

Response 2:
A telefon helps you call pepol. A telefon hels you tex some won.

Response 3:
It calls people house to house. It helps you learn numbers. It helps you dile. It helps you call 911. It helps you call your mom."

Response 4:
A telephone help you from city from New York to Alabama. It helps you do messages. Back in the day, you couldn't call that far"

Don't you love hearing "back in the day" when you specifically remember having a cellphone plan that didn't include long distance calls??

they aren't even trying to be funny...

"Mrs. Vining, does this word say picture or potato?"

(the word was 'photo')

"Mrs. Vining, you smell good. You smell like cheerios!"

that may or may not be a compliment...depending on your age...

While watching Mary Poppins, this was a student's response to her pulling a bunch of stuff out of her old carpet bag...

"OH-EM-GEE! How did  she do that??"

i love that they were so fascinated by a movie that wasn't 3D or computer animated

While at lunch...

Student: Mrs. Vining, what are you doing under there?

Me: Under where?

Student: HA! You said UNDERWEAR!!

touche

Student: How do you spell "teet"?

Me: Whooooa...use it in a sentence...

Student: When I grow up, I want to clean kids' teet..

Me: OH! TEETH! 

phew..that was  a close one

BOOM...roasted.

It's not too often that I actually get to tune in to some of my students' conversations with each other. I'm always rushing around, trying to accomplish the tasks for the day. However, after witnessing this conversation...I might try a little harder from now on...

K: Hey N, guess what?
N: What?
K: I got a new transformer...it's really big ::shows how big with his arms::
N: Yea..well guess what?
K: What?
N: I have a dragonoid collosus. ::turns and walks away::
K: WHAT!!

(boom...roasted.)

a new school year...

Please forgive the delayed update of this blog. Believe you me, it is most certainly not because of dull students.. They are quite hilarious. However, I never seem to find time these days to sit down and blog. And with my recent joining of the twitter bandwagon...blogging just isn't my default anymore (sorry non-tweeters). So to be fair...I will attempt to do a much better job at updating the blog. The following quotes are going to be some repeats from twitter along with being in no particular order. I don't have my "must blog soon" quotes with me right now so those will have to come later.

Without further ado...I present to you the class of 2010-2011.

Me: does anyone know what a subway is?
Student (singing): "subway...eat fresh!"

K: Mrs.Vining...I'm not feeling good. I cant lean my head thisaway or thataway and i dont need to breathe a lot.
Me: passing out probably would make you feel better...

A student brought me an apple one morning. I wanted to feel insulted for a moment; however, I still accepted his kind gesture. He brought another one in the next morning to which I responded "next time you bring me an apple...put it on a stick and dip it in caramel first"

Quite frequently, my students like to add to my sentences. One day while reprimanding a very disruptive and destructive kindergartner, one of my students added "yea, mrs.vining don't play."
(ya heard?)

Me: who makes neighborhoods a nice place to live?
Student: God.
Me: that's true. How about someone here on the earth?
Student: Jesus.

Me: What would you do if you were mayor?
Student: I would do nothin'. I would go home and take me a nap.

(Campaign: "yes we can!..after a good nap") future leaders of America...

Me: does anyone know what the word 'extinct' means?
Student: yea! That means when the dinosaurs didn't brush their teeth...their breath extincted!

(she was not joking and all other students seemed to be nodding in agreement, to what them seemed to be, a legitimate response)

In my attempts to draw a seashell, a student said "it looks like lips.."
Taking into consideration the feelings of others, another student said "she's doing the best she can!"

Student: mrs.vining, my brain hurts..and my neck...and my stomach.
Me: we might just need to put you down then...relieve you of your misery.

Phonetically-Spelled Apology Letters

A majority of my students got in trouble and/or were being disrespectful during P.E. time. The coach was baffled by their behavior because they are not usually the troublesome class. I told the students how sad I was that they would disrespect another teacher so I had them write apology letters to the coach. I read through them and found some of their spellings to be quite humorous. Here are just a few (I'll let you try and figure out the words):

Dear Mrs. N,
I love you.
I am sore.
I am gunu chrigh my best.
I will never be bad.
I will olwast love you.
I will never tok back.
I will owas git in lin.
I will not make a mab fas.
I will not poosh.
I will not act crase.


I am sorry.
I will be good nexst PE. I promis to never be bae.
I will dowene thang to get jor chrust beck.
I will never de bae a gen. I am sory for being bae.


I am soure for bisobating.
I am soure for playing in line.
I am soure for enoring.
I am soure for playing when I dot spostow.


I'm sore Mrs. N. I will be good nack time.
I wont to do good. I will not dispact.


I am sorry. I will be good. I will never be bad again.
I will try not to bring flip flops again.


OK, I know I said to figure out the words on your own, but just incase you had a little trouble, here's some translations of a few of the more challenging ones:

sore, soure = sorry
gunu = "gunna"
chrigh = try
olwast, owas = always
crase = crazy
bae = bad
chrust = trust
dowene thang = do anything
bisobating = disobeying
enoring = ignoring
dot spostow = not supposed to
dispact = disrespect

recent quotes

D: Mrs Vining, C is tickling me in the ear pick.
Me: Where is she tickling you?
D: In my ear pick! (as he points to his arm pit)


Me: Alright, let's use our slinkies to stretch out this word...
Students: bbbb-rrrr--aawww-lllll
Me: What's the word?
Students: BRAWL!
C: Yea, women wear bras!
Me: brawlllll....not bra.