Silly Kid stories

[Flyndaran]

I wish I had a nice nickname like most of the kids mentioned here.
Mine was Pooper, because of my use of an unpleasant artistic medium.
One brother was Dopey because of his stick out ears. But he enjoyed doing the Disney face.

[NorthernZel]

I wish I had a nice nickname like most of the kids mentioned here.
Mine was Pooper, because of my use of an unpleasant artistic medium.
One brother was Dopey because of his stick out ears. But he enjoyed doing the Disney face.

For my part, Lil'Zel's nickname is only used in here. In RL, he had/has several other more or less flattering nicknames

[AnaKhouri]

Khan is Khan for two reasons: he is taller, stronger, smarter and handsomer than any other kid (Star Trek reference) and also leaves a swathe of destruction behind him wherever he goes (Mongol reference).

[fireheart]

The other day I had to go and pick up a hammer from the groundskeeper (no his name is not Willy ) to repair some Geoboards (I am going to make some...eventually)

I come back wielding the hammer. one of my students goes "Miss Fireheart, please don't hurt me" and makes this pouty face. She knew I wouldn't hurt her, but just her facial expression was hilarious.

To her credit, the teacher played along once I handed her the hammer and the kids were engrossed with the virtual geoboard.

My mentor teacher also teaches dance to some of her students. Two of my students are in her dance group. They've been working on a routine to "Part Of Me" by Katy Perry. The other day I got to watch (they're actually fairly good) and the two kids were like "OMG, Miss Fireheart's watching us! I'm so embarassed!"



Btw, for those who aren't familiar, a geoboard is basically a piece of wood with nails sticking out of it. Kids use the geoboards to create shapes or to explain other concepts, by stretching rubber bands around the nails.

[fireheart]

So a group of my students stayed in at lunchtime today because it was that freaking hot (and two of them were complaining about headaches).

Somehow the topic got onto Gangnam Style and one of the girls announced that she knew what Gangnam Style was about (keep in mind that these kids are around 9-10 years old). Her words:

Student: "It's about how the guy wants to find a girl who wants to enjoy coff-"

Me: *chokes on my baked potato trying not to laugh* (the way she said "coffee" came out like "cock" to me)

Student: "It's about how the guy wants to find a girl who wants to enjoy coffee with him."

I then managed to redeem myself by explaining that it was a parody of the Gangnam district in Korea.

[violiavampyr]

My daughter has always been very good about watching her language, even though her and I have so,e times used bad language around her. Whenever either of use would cus she would shout, "language!"
Then when she was about 3 one of the animals frustrated her, or something. I'm not sure. She called it a "baby head". After that whenever someone did something she didn't like she would call them a Babyhead.

[Miss Maple Leaf]

I've got a few stories about my own childhood:

1) I was a toddler at the time, and I was sitting on my great-aunt S's lap. Now S was born on February 29th, so it's a joke in our family that she only gets a birthday once every four years. (She had her 19th birthday this year. She can finally buy alcohol. )

Anyway, I was bouncing up and down on her lap saying, "I wanna be a teenager! I can't wait to be a teenager!"
S smiled at me and told me, "You know, I'm a teenager." (she was in her early fifties at the time).
I looked up at her, thought for a second or two, and then declared, "I don't wanna be a teenager any more."
She still tells that story to people, all these years later.

2) Mom took me to the doctor's for a checkup, and instead of our regular doctor we saw his father instead, who was covering for him that day. His father had white hair, which I had never seen before (people go grey fairly early in my family, but take forever to turn white).
Apparently I was really smitten with his hair, because I declared it "pretty" and started petting it like a dog.

3) When I was four my grandmother took me to a Christmas pageant at the firehall. One of the organizers there was going around to kids in the audience and asking them if they wanted to get up on stage and sing. I, of course, jumped at the chance.

Small problem though. While the idea was to sing a Christmas song, I didn't know the complete words to any, so I sang the only song I knew all the words to: Take Me Out to the Ballgame.

Luckily, at that age I could get away with doing something like that. All the adults in the audience thought it was just precious.
Meanwhile, my mom just about died laughing when my grandmother told her about it later.

[fireheart]

We had my kids writing reports today. Bear in mind that they're year 3/4 kids. Most of them are fairly well-behaved (and the kids who DO act up are generally the same 4-5 students). Their reports consist of the teacher filling out the academic side of things, but today they were self-assessing their social skills and the like, along with adding a comment about what they've been learning.

One kid today decided to write the following in his report after we'd edited it and told him he needed to add a bit more:

"<teacher> is a God because..." I can't remember the rest though.

Of course that had her in hysterics, then the kids next to him started pretending to worship her.

A lot of them have been adding in "Miss Fireheart is a good teacher" or similar...

[AnaKhouri]

Son: "Mommy, my mac&cheese is too hot! Blow on it!"

My Stepdad: "You shouldn't talk to your mom like that. What's the magic word?"

Son: "Shazam!"

Me: >facepalm<

(to be fair, I have never used 'the magic word' in connection with 'please', I usually say, "Is that how you ask?" when he forgets to use it)

[fireheart]

Today I had the following gems:

"My name is not <dark wood> it's Rose and I'm going to turn into a fruit!" (the kids have been doing life cycles)
5 seconds later: I don't wanna be a fruit, I'm going to turn into a piano!" O.o

My class is a combined Year 3/4 class and the Year 3's are putting together a finale piece for their assembly. Their challenge was to rap to a beat.
To prompt them, they had some lines of "Pencil, pencil rule it up" and so on. Of course, I got a bit too carried away....whoops!

[Miss Maple Leaf]

When I was in grade six, I was one of the girls asked to watch the Grade Primary kids in the tot lot during the morning before school started and during recess (at the time, Primary kids went home at lunch, so I didn't have to watch them then).

Some of the kids in the class I was assigned to were just hilarious.

We had one boy that we dubbed "Casanova" because every few days we'd tease him by asking him who his girlfriend was, and he always said a different girl. He never said any of our names, which makes me think he just didn't like older women.

There was another boy, L, who hated having to hang his coat up, and was always trying to get us to do it for him. While we were there to help them if they needed it, we were also supposed to get them to learn to do such things themselves, so we would tell him no.
One day, the other two girls and I were talking while we were were waiting for the kids to put their things away and head into class when L walked up to one of the girls (whose name also started with L) and handed her his jacket. Since we were talking, she didn't even notice and just hung it up automatically. None of us even registered it.
He would have gotten away with it too if he hadn't stood there grinning up at her, looking rather pleased with himself.

When L(f) noticed that L(m) was standing there rather than heading into class she realised what had happened and felt annoyed that she had gotten tricked. I say he should have booked it as soon as the jacket was hung up. We would have been none the wiser.

[fireheart]

One of my kids this morning during their English lesson:

"There once was a boy called Billy,
Who sat on a big fat willy"

*facepalm*

And yes, I made him change it.

[AnaKhouri]

Khan learned our address by heart in 15 minutes. I sang it to him, and since he can memorize a song after two listens, he picked it up right away.

I wonder if I can set my phone number to Iron Maiden.

[fireheart]

Marking some of my kids science work today, I came across one of my students writeups. He's a good kid, although he has some issues with spelling and comprehension. He is also only in Year 4. This made me laugh:

"We raped a cup with toilet paper."

He meant "wrapped" but seems to struggle with silent letters. I couldn't help but laugh when I saw his comment. I also know that it's an innocent mistake, but the wordplay just made me

(Oh and he DID understand the concept)

[AnaKhouri]

On the car radio there was a very loud, cheerful-sounding ad for Hollywood Casino.

Khan: "Mommy, you can go to Hollywood Casino tomorrow and Daddy can watch me!"

Uh...even if I could afford it, I wouldn't...