Need a laugh!

So I realized that in my last post I forgot to write down some of the quotes from my students.  They really must be the funniest group of kids that I have ever met!

Here they are:

One day while standing out at dismissal with my students, one of the girls in my class was asking me a question and I did not hear her talking to me, so it seemed to her like I was ignoring her. After a couple minutes of her repeating the same question to me over and over again, she yelled out at me, "speak cracker, speak!"  Now in order to understand why this was so funny you need to know the background of my students.  I am a white teacher in a class that is mainly black students.  So when she yelled this at me I couldn't help but laugh.  She is one of the most innocent girls we have in our whole school, so I knew that she had no clue what she was saying.  I just had to take a step back and laugh at this situation, especially after the long day that I had!

Just the other day, my class was in the library for our weekly visit and while we were there the librarian was reading a biography about Abraham Lincoln.  My students were pretty attentive throughout the story because we have been studying biographies in class.  At the end of the story on of the girls in my class raised her had because she had something she wanted to share with the class.  Once she was called on this is what she was dying to share.
Student: "Do you know who Abraham Lincoln's 27th grandson was?"
Librarian: "No who was it?"
Student: "It was Jesus!"
Librarian: "Jesus Christ?"
Student: "Yes, my mom told me that Jesus was the grandson of Abraham Lincoln!"
At this point I did not know any other reaction expect for to laugh!

Since I've been gone...

     As you may have noticed, I have not blogged in almost an entire month.  This is not because nothing exciting has happened, it is simply because I am so busy that I do not have time to keep up with this blog.  Sad story, trust me I know!  Do not worry, I am back now..and after much harassment from followers of my blog, I am going to do a better job with keeping up on this blog!
     So since I have last blogged we have had a number of events happen in the classroom.  For starters, I went on my first field trip as a teacher.  We went to the Michigan Theater and to the Museum of Natural History.  This was an event for sure, trying to keep up with 90 second graders and their parents was a task all in itself! By the end of this "day off" from class, I was more tired than I usually am after a full day of school.  The very next day after the field trip was Valentine's Day, which in second grade means HUGE PARTY WITH LOTS OF PREPARATION! Despite all of the craziness of getting this party together for my students, I did have a lot of fun giving and receiving cards and candy from my students and taking time to just get to know them!

Personalized Cookie I was given as a Valentine's treat from a student!

The Valentine's card I made for my students.

Here's for my fans!

          It seems that my blog is creating quite the commotion in Southeastern Michigan, and by Southeastern Michigan, I mean to the 4 people that actually know about this blog.  However, they have brought it to my attention that I have not blogged in quite a while.  In an effort to please everyone I come in contact with I am going to give a quick little week update.
       Today was my observation from my university supervisor on my progress during my student teaching.  I spent about 4 hours preparing ONE lesson to teach to my class while she was in the room.  Although it was a great lesson, it took me entirely too long and there is no way that I am going to allow myself to spend that much time on a lesson when their are so many other things to be done in order to prepare for a school day. All that time was worth it though because she said that I am doing extremely well in my placement.  She also talked about how easily she thinks I will find a teaching job based on my performance as a student teacher.  These were great things to hear yet, I know I have a ton of room to grow and I want to do everything I can to improve as a teacher.  I want to get to the point where all of my lessons are that good.  I do not want to have this exceptionally well lesson that is only around for an hour of the day.  I know I have a lot of room to grow and one of those areas to grow in is my math instruction.  I do not like math, I do not like teaching math, and honestly, I do not even like the word math....and I am not sure why I am writing the word math so much right now!  Anyways, for my midterm evaluation for student teaching I am having my supervisor watch me teach a math lesson.  I might be shooting myself in the foot on that one but it is worth it in order to grow!


Now for what you really want to hear about...its time for the quote of the week: Beware this one is a little interesting!

While I was teaching our morning ELA lesson in our DOL books, one of the questions was to create words in the -ick family.
Me: (calling on a student) Can you think of a word that is in the-ick family?
Student: Yes, Dick.
All the other students: AGHHH YOU ARE SWEARING!
Student: NO IM NOT ITS A WORD!
Me: Well I don't think I am going to write that word down.
Student: Why not, my mom calls my dad that all the time.
Me: Ummmmm?!?!?!

Kids literally says the craziest things EVER!