The hard part of my job

"I am leaving early because I am going to a doctor today. We are going to play games together and he is going to learn about my feelings."


This is something I wish for a first grader to never have to say to me. It is a part of taking care of problems. I wish for 6 year olds to not have these kinds of struggles in their lives.

Full

This morning I was using Popsicle sticks with my first graders to make rhythm sentences. Someone asked I these were real Popsicle sticks. I said yes thy are real but not from Popsicles I ate. Just bought like they are now. I said if I ate the many I would have a big belly ache. Someone in the room then said "and you would also have a really big belly!"

Nope, no babies

A female student today asked about if I was a kid, teenager, or a-dull. That's right kids, once you pass you teens, you are "A Dull."

Then a male student popped in with, "Um, duh she is an adult. She is a teacher."
Then he asked "So are you married then?"
I respond "yes"
Kid "so do you have kids then"
Me "no"
kid "are you pregnant"
me "no"
kid "Are you making a baby?"
Me "um, no?"
kid "Why not? Don't you want any?"
me "Sure. I just don't have any right now and I have 500 of you guys here to worry about. I do have a dog though" *attempting to make the kid accept that this is ok

kid "I guess that is ok" *totally disappointed with my answer

Fit

Have you ever seen a third grader do push ups? Hilarious. For that matter most other calisthenics. *thoughts from supervising the after school PE program.

healthy breakfast

This morning I had a first grade class get a little silly. When we had a calm down a breathe time a little girl tells me "I think some of us had a piece of chocolate for breakfast" two moments later "because it has a lot of sugar in it to make us hyper"