Friday, January 28, 2011

Words of a Fifth Grader

Fifth grade is the year all the drama begins and hormones start kickin' in. Who likes whom. Who's dating whom. What this person said. How mean this person is being. I hate them (then later that day... We're best friends!). Note passing. (The first half of the year, I intercepted a lot of notes being passed across the room.) Boys... eww! Girls... eww!

Enjoy a few of these memorable moments from my classroom...

Written on a sticky note to me: 
get involops from ofice pleas and downt forgat
(You just have to smile at the Spelling
mistakes kids make sometimes!)

Girl (handing out papers):
Mrs. Jones, someone wrote "Wuss" at the top of this paper.
Mrs. J: No, sweetheart. That's N---'s name.

On our first Math test:
Is 24 prime or composite?  prime
How can you tell?  because it has a lot of plomis

Written in a girl's agenda about Spelling that day:
Hobophone Activity

Introducing our Nutrition Science unit:
Talking about how calcium makes your
bones strong and helps them grow:
Student #1:  Do adults need calcium?
Mrs. J:  Yes, but adults' bones don't usually grow like kids' bones do.
Student #2:  Yeah, can't you tell? Mrs. Jones hasn't grown at all!

Some of the messages written on notes confiscated:
scroow you and skumbag
(Being mean is something we're constantly working on this year.)

When talking about Columbus and his voyages:
Columbus sailed on the Petunia, the Santa Maria, and the Sunflower.

When arguing, getting upset, stomping off,
and shouting out in the middle of inside recess:
Nobody understands what I went through last night. 
I had a gun pointed to my head.
Then, to the class, after sharing this experience with the principal and confessing:
It was a lie. I'm sorry.

While a student was filling a pitcher to water the plants:
That faucet's slower than my grandma!

On a recent assignment I graded:







A teacher's job is rarely boring with her students. Sometimes I want to pull my hair out. Sometimes these kids can be downright entertaining. Hope the second half of the year will be just as memorable!