School News and Funnies

Tomorrow we are taking the 8th graders on a field trip to SFA. I am excited to get to spend some time with them outside the classroom and show them around SFA! I know it will be a long day, but I am glad the weather is so nice, and that we'll get to spend the entire day outside. Whew! It's brutal to be inside all day with no windows when fall is approaching!

Now for the funnies...the kids just love to ask Shawn and me questions about our relationship. They want to know when we got married, if we both went to SFA, etc. I think one day a couple of weeks ago (as I am constantly trying to make real life connections to the vocabulary we are learning in class!) Shawn and I both shared with our classes that I am the clean one, and he the messy one. Shawn said that he liked to eat in bed, but I did not like it... so he confessed to his class... he does it when I'm not home! Of course, the kids immediately reported back to me what he had said. It is hilarious that they keep bringing it up. Like today, when we were going over the prefix co in Coexist (which means to live peacefully together) one student asked if Shawn and I coexisted... I wasn't sure his intention behind the question...(and would you, if asked this by an 8th grader?) and immediately got embarrassed and awkward. So I tried to explain it away. "uh, yes, we do live together in the same house," I said. "Yeah," he countered, "but do you live peacfully?" Which was immediately answered by another student in the class... "NO! He still eats chips in bed!" Of course, then, the whole class erupted into laughter.
The same class period, the same student, who pronounced leopard, lee o pard the day before, asked me what I meant when I called a character in the book we were disucssing flexible. He was flipping through the pages frantically trying to find where it had said that. I didn't figure out until a few minutes later that he actually thought I meant that the character was literally flexible, like could do the splits. Oh my, they are soooo literal!
The day before that, I had my last class act out the acronym FANBOYS (the coordinating conjunctions) which stands for for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so. Of my seven volunteers, each one had to make one of the letters with their bodies when their "fanboy" was called. It was hilarious seeing them try to twist themselves into those ridiculous poses. Quite the highlight of the day. Hey, teachers can have fun, too.