furnaces, skeletons and real life mysteries

Now that we've moved, I haven't been teaching at all. I miss it. I went in to visit my old school the other day to collect some of my things and was reminded of a few stories I still had kicking around.

I was in a kindergarten class while they were eating lunch. One boy put up his hand and asked, "Can I go get my hot furnace?" by which of course he meant thermos. Very cute.

Also in kindergarten, the teacher was talking to the kids at the carpet. One particularly rambunctious boy was having some trouble sitting still. "I need to see your listening ears!" said the teacher. "Show me that you're listening with your whole body" she said. "And my skeleton?" he asked. "Yes, your whole body". :)

I love kindies for their wonderful stories!

Grade twos are also amazingly funny. My teaching partner told me this one about one of the students I used to teach.

"Mrs. Spright! Mrs. Spright! Me and Alex are solving a real life mystery!!"
"Oh! What is it?"
"Are there aliens."
"Really!"
"And we already have some real life evidence!"
"And what is that?"
"We found some circles!"
"Wow!"
"Yes, Alex found some bigger ones and I found some smaller ones. Alex says that he thinks his circles are from the mother ship."
"Yeah?"
"Yeah, and he says mine are from the father ship."

He he he. Sometimes teachers have to work so hard at their "yes, I'm taking you seriously" face...It's so hard not to laugh!

But really, their logic astounds me. Thermos - furnace. Sound the same, and do almost the same thing. If I need to show you my listening body, my skeleton must be listening too. Obviously. And if there's a mother ship, there has to be a father ship right?

Oh kids. I miss you!