Field Trip Funnies

1 is actually funny, while 2 is more funny in a " I am laughing but a little creeped out inside"

1- After 40 minutes of wandering the Beane Museum (which is just like a natural history museum, all stuffed creatures), two children are looking @ stuffed birds.

Child 1- "Look at that bird on it's side, it's sleeping"
Child 2 (with the heartbreaking bluntness of a 7 year old)- "No.... it's dead"


2- On the way home, with her dad sitting next to her. T- "Miss Van Tassell, my dad thinks' your fine !!". If only I wanted to date someone who:
- was wearing a bandana and football jersey
-has tattoos all up his arm
- sat under a tree and read a book while he was supposed to be eating lunch with his group
-(word on the school grapevine)was in prison last year
-makes no attempt to control their child, or even send his child to school most days
-was not one iota embarrassed or tried to stop his daughter, just simply stared @ me (thank goodness for sunglasses so he couldn't see where I was looking).

Well yes he does but...

a shirt worn by E

"Jesus Has Skills"
Bright blue shirt, HUGE white letters

Friendship by guilt...

Mystery student who I have forgotten, said from across the room
" I don't want to be by D"
D looks across the room and looks about to cry
Mystery Student- "well D is my best friend, so of course I want to sit by him"

If I only knew...

As we are working on Mother's Day projects

A- "Are you making a project for your mom ?"
Me- "Nope"
A- " Are you making one for yourself ? Are you a mother ?"
Me- "No I am not"
A- "Why not ?"
she had such a cute look of shock on her face. If only I knew A, if only I knew why...

Rainy Day Gem

D-"Oh no... they have to go pay your Texas"

Talking about "Robin Hood", meaning they have to pay taxes. Wouldn't life be better if no one had to pay our texas ?

It's going to be a long three months

The joy of year round- I was off from March 5th to April 6th. I got to go to Disneyland, to Virginia to visit my nieces and nephew, lounge about, not grade etc....

The problem- It sucked all the motivation out of me. Since we have been back I have to make myself stay till contract time and DRAG myself out of bed and NEVER want to grade or plan. I mean I NEVER want to grade but this is worse then normal. I have put it off for "one more day" for so long that this weekend was the first time I had graded since we came back. That is horrible !

Also atrocious is my lack of remembering to do things for school. My poor bag is loaded every day b/c I take things home, and never get them out, then they come back to school and the cycle is repeated. My poor sight word mom has been waiting for copies for weeks and I didn't even send home a reminder note about the Science Fair last week... oops !

Also not helping- the pool @ my parents is almost done. I sit on the back porch and gaze into it and dream of swimming my whole summer away. I think I have to make myself stay now... I will stay even less when it is available. I say I will come early but anyone who knows me knows that will never happen. It's going to be a long three months....

Return of the First Graders...

I am partially annoyed to be back @ school, but really after a month I was excited to see my little class again. So that I could hear such tidbits as this.

A-"You know what I've been wondering about the zoo ? Like how do they catch tigers or wolves for the zoo ?"
B- "Oh yeah, I wonder too"
A-" I think they spy on them with a little net, and they reach out quick and grab them really quick. I keep changing my mind."
B- "Like you just did ?"

How does B know that A changed her mind ? They crack me up...