Reading

I was walking with a student in the hall. She had, for some reason, brought a book with her to go on this errand with me. So, as do all of the teachers at my school, I asked her to put her "hawkwings" on (hands behind her while she walks down the hall). She hesitated for a moment with her book open and said, "But I can't read behind my back..."

How to define "Emergency"

The question asked students to use a vocabulary word in a sentence.
The word was "emergency."

Her sentence(s):

We have an emergency! Mike got mugged! Oh my goodness! Oh my gosh! My nose! I look like Michael Jackson!

I guess that would qualify as an emergency...

Writing

I asked my kids to write about the things they did over the Thanksgiving break.

These are the questions I was asked...

How do you spell cop?
How do you spell exorcism?
Is Edward Scissorhands one word or two?

Manners

I was letting my students play a math game on my interactive white board and I was calling up two people at a time so they could help each other. I called up a boy and a girl and told them they needed to decide between them who would go first. The boy looked at the girl, winked, and said, "Ladies first!" So sweet!

Poke

We were sounding out our spelling words, today.
The word was "poke," so we sounded it out: p..oh...k... poke.
Right after we said "poke," one of my kids started singing, "P-P-P-Pooooker Face!"

New Language

In the writing station today, one of my students wrote the sentence, "I want to learn Spanish in high school so I can go to China and make new friends." Then he drew a picture of a guy trying to figure out how to get past "the big wall." :)

Predicates

I was teaching my students about subjects and predicates today. I gave them some silly sentences and they were supposed to tell me the subject and predicate of the sentence.
The sentence was, "The pig flew away."
I said, "What is the predicate?"
They said, "flew away."
I asked, "What is the subject?"
One of my students:
"Well... It could have been a cockroach!"