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