In a written assignment: The concluding paragraph of a write-up about ‘Dinosaurs’ (the first written assignment this kid had ever done):
‘Finally, dinosaurs died. Asteroid hit earth and died the dinosaurs. SURPRISE DINOSAURS!!’
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Me: ‘Give me a sentence with ‘trip’ in it.’
Kid 1: ‘Fell down, trip, same.’
Me: ‘No, a sentence.’
Kid 2: ‘Fell down is the same as trip.’
Pause.
Kid 2: ‘It’s a sentence!’
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I fix the pink screen problem on the classroom computer.
Me: ‘I’m a genius!!’
10 year old boy, shaking his head: ‘That’s your suppose. You think. Just you. 100%.’
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Kid throws a glue stick to me. I catch it.
Kid: ‘Oh, teacher, you will be a very good baseball player!’
His friend next to him looks at him, skeptically.
Kid: ‘Women’s league.’
His friend nods.
Me: ‘Ehhh, thanks guys.’
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While talking about pets with my 7 year olds, one little girls whips out her phone to show me a picture of her black and white hamster:
Little girl: ‘Teacher, LOOK, it’s a panda mouse!!!’
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The Ketchup War 
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