desert drama

Me: "You know, Mrs. Bryant used to live in the desert"

Student: "Woah, how did you even survive?!?!?!"

burrito honesty

Me: "Please sit criss-cross"

Student: "There is no way you can expect me to sit criss-cross after a bean burrito."

daddy's cooking

a student raising hand and completely changing the subject matter.....

"Mrs. Bryant, my dad makes really bad hamburgers. Please don't tell him I said that"

leadership

during leadership week (where my students study how to be a good leader):

Me: "Wow, look at C (our new student). He is modeling such good leadership"

Student: "Well, maybe they already had leadership week at his old school!"

oreo survival

on the very first day of school........

"Mrs. Bryant, if you get sick of us, I've got some Oreos in my lunchbox you can have"

honesty

student 1: "Mrs. Bryant, the prettiest teacher of them all!"

student 2: "Well........."

ouch. oh the joys kindergarten honesty.

violent red

a table of kids was arguing over whether a crayon was red or pink....

Me: "Why don't you read the name of the crayon on the side"

Student (reads it to himself and looks puzzled): "Violent red?"

there you have it, violent red is the new violet red :)

last names

a student attempted to read the the school name in the cafeteria and couldn't quite figure out why there were two words (school name and mascot) She looked up at me and said....

"Um...does our school have a last name?"