Sorry that I don't have a flashback for you this Friday, but I do have a funny story for ya'll. Today at school I had all day planning with my fourth grade team mates, so my class had an all day sub. (Don't worry they did well)
As for me, well, I'm a lil sleep deprived. Del and I thought it'd be wise to buy Monster Energy drinks to start the day making us alert and responsive for our planning meeting. It definitely made the day memorable. It's always nice just to sit down and interact with the people you're working with, and today was no different.
Then came the time in our meeting, to share our student's writing pieces with the others. We were cracking up hysterically at two of my students papers. The following are real life fourth grade excerpts. Enjoy.
From a story entitled "Pee You!" "When I was milking a cow, the cow squirted me in the mouth and the milk was hot and tasted old. The cow stink so much it smell like old guts... I was standing in the cow's restroom. Pee you!"
- This gave us teachers a small laugh, but the next one caused some tears to be shed.
From "I Broke My Leg" (Be sure to note the use of thesaurus word usage)
(The story started off by saying how she hurt her leg ice skating. The excerpt picks up the next day at school.)
"When the nurse and I were promenading to the office the nurse noticed I was limping... (Then she goes to the play place at the mall and makes a "friend") ...It was comical because the miniature girl pushed me off the log...(Then a police man calls a cab and it takes them home to her house)... When I was in my house my grandma put like a cast on me...When we got to the hospital we waited for the doctor to call us back. He took off the thing that my Grandma put on me. He took Ex-rays and told me my leg was broken..."
I hope you enjoyed those tid bits of joy.
Then after lunch we did some planning for writing. Our kids will be doing research projects on animals in the Chesapeake Bay, so I wanted to pick a random animal to print out some material, so that I could model how to do the project for them. Being a lover of all things Antarctic I chose the Weddell Seal (To give penguins a break). As I was researching and printing off some web sites, behind me three of my students were practicing their math facts with an aid.
I found these clips of Weddell seal noises, so being the curious guy I am, of course I clicked on them while in the Media Center! I listened to the first 4 and was surprised that the weddell seal call was mostly just high pitched whistles and some clicks. Then #5 is what put me over the edge. It was different, and caught me so off guard that I just started laughing uncontrollably.
There were tears and I didn't breath for at least a minute. So my kids definitely saw me cry, but the one Spanish speaking girl, sad, "he's only crying cuz he's laughing."
So enjoy this tid bit too. Note: You have to listen to them in numerical order!
Weddell Seal noises http://www.antarctica2000.net/wildlife/weddell.html
Anyone laughing? I know I am
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