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This Quote Friday from June 15th 2012 (original link) proved to be one of the most read Quote Friday’s on the entire site:
For anyone who wasn’t following Quote Friday, it was a weekly round-up of the funniest things my elementary school students said to me that week. They were all aged 6-12 and were in my English class in South Korea.
First up, a non-school quote:
Girl at party last weekend: ‘Where are you from?’
Me: ‘Ireland.’
Girl: ‘Oh, Ireland, Texas?’
Me: ‘No, Ireland the country.’
…Pause…
Girl: ‘You must think I’m really stupid.’
Me: ‘Actually, I’ve been asked that exact question before.’
***
In the middle of repeating vocabulary:
Kid: ‘Teacher, I’m hungry.’
Me: ‘That’s nice. I don’t care.’
Kid: ‘You don’t have food??’
Me: ‘I’m not giving you food!’
Suddenly, a piece of candy hits him on the side of the head. We all turn to see one little boy has throw a candy at him. The kid picks it up and throws it back at kid 2. I take it away from them both and put it on my desk.
Kid 2 has a funny look on his face. I look at him, quizzically. He lifts his hand to reveal a second candy, smiles and then bursts out laughing.
***
Me: ‘What’s skipping?”
Do I look like I skip to you?!
Entire class, breaking into The Smurfs theme song: ‘La la la la la la la la la la la!!’
Me: ‘What? That’s The Smurfs! Skipping is this.’
I skip across the classroom.
Kid: ‘Yes, you look like a Smurf.’
Me: ‘Did you just call me a Smurf?’
Kid: ‘Yes, look.’
He gets up and skips across the classroom just like I did.
Kid: ‘See, like a Smurf.’
I look unconvinced.
Kid: ‘I’ll do one more time.’
He does.
Kid: “See. A Smurf.’
***
Kid: ‘I did my homework with a paintbrush.’
Me: ‘What?’
Kid: “I didn’t have a pencil.’
***
One kid touches another kid’s arm.
Kid: ‘Teacher, he’s touching ME!!! Teacher, he’s GAY!!’
***
While studying ‘like’:
Me: ‘What does your mommy like?’ (options on the page include a variation of fruits and vegetables)
Kid: ‘My mom likes money.’
Kid 2: ‘My mom doesn’t like dad.’
***
Two boys are hitting each other with pencils.
Me: “What are you doing?!’
Kid: ‘We’re swordfighting!!’
***
There is paper ALL over my floor.
Me: “What the hell is all this on my floor?!!’
Kid 1: ‘Oh my God, you said a bad word!!’
Me: ‘No, I didn’t.’
Kid 1: ‘Yes, you did! You said ‘what the hell’!’
Me: ‘No, I didn’t!!’
Kid 1: ‘I hear you!!!’
Kid 2: ‘The fan and the paper and whoooosh and paper on floor.’
Kid 1: ‘YOU SAID A BAD WORD!!’
***
From The Canadian One and his Kindergarten students:
I was teaching my students can and will.
One wrote ‘I can ride a bike’ and then, ‘Soon I will smoke.’
- Quote Friday – Some New Quotes and Top 11 Quotes From The Wall
- ‘I am Mommy Monster!’ – May 25th 2012
- ‘Why do you have tadpoles in my class?’ – May 18th 2012
- ‘He looks smart.’ – May 11th 2012
- ‘His skin is bling bling?’ – May 4th 2012
- ‘Relax!’ – April 27th 2012
- ‘She is like wi-fi!’ – April 20th 2012
- ‘Dino-Aliens!! I KNEW IT!!’ – April 13th 2012
- ‘It’s so bling bling.’ – April 6th 2012
