Kids Say the Darndest Things

Working in a first grade classroom, I hear and witness a lot of funny things that kids do. I try to remember at least one of these funny moments to share with Cody every night. I thought it would be fun to recap some of the funny things that happened this week.

-One of the students hates Justin Beiber with a passion. He calls him Justin Beeba and says it in his sweet little accent. Apparently Justin Beeba was at his house this week and kissed his cousin, so naturally he had to kill him. I had several worried students ask me if Justin Beiber was really dead.

-I have another student who loves to play with Beyblades. These are essentially little tops that spin on the ground and kids battle their tops against each other to see who's can stay up the longest. I bought one for this student to play with when he is good. This week he asked if he could bury my Beyblade. I told him that we were just going to play with it in the hall, we weren't going to take it outside. He responded, "But my teacher last year let me bury her toys, I took it home for the night and then brought it back the next day." :) 

-I bought some color changing markers for a student in my class. Every morning I bring him a piece of paper that has every half hour written down with an empty box next to it. I use my clear color changing marker to write a number in each box and then he uses the colored markers to color in the box when he behaves in class. The number I previously wrote in the box is invisible so a number 'magically' appears in the box when he colors it in. This has convinced the class that I am magic. One girl came up to me and asked if I was magic. When I told her yes, she told me to make her pencil disappear. I held her pencil and then dropped it into my sleeve. She gasped and told me to make it reappear and I used my other hand to push it from my sleeve back into my hand. A couple days later I was talking with her teacher and she told me that the same girl brought a new box of pencils to school and sharpened several of them that day. When the teacher asked her why she was sharpening so many pencils she said 'I keep sharpening pencils because they keep disappearing, I think Ms. Katie is doing magic on my pencils and making them disappear.'