Some quotes...

If you'd been a fly on the wall of my classroom during the past two weeks, you would have heard some of the following exchanges...and I hope you would have laughed :)

me (reading from the book "Would You Rather...?"): Would you rather be the one who throws up or the one who cleans it up?
student: Well, when you throw up...it opens up all kinds of opportunities!


student: Hey, Veteran 8th Grade Boy, you forgot your purse!
V8 Boy: It's not a purse! It's a shiny man-bag!
(V8 Boy is repeating the 8th grade...so I've already had him for a year...)


me: Why is milk white?
student 1: Because cow's udders are racist.
student 2: Does chocolate milk come from brown cows?

Would you believe that they were surprised when I told them no?!?!

Student with Onomatopoeic Name (in the interest of anonymity, I can't tell you what his name is, but it is fun to say, plus, if I typed it, you'd probably not know how to pronounce it anyway ;) ):
Well, all milks are white, it's just that some have black or brown spots, but they're still white underneath, so they have white milk.
me: Do you mean cows?
Onomatopoeic: Yeah...what did I say?

These exchanges convinced me that we need to take a field trip to a dairy farm...


As I'm writing a conversion problem on the board,
Nonstop Talker (8th grade boy): Excuse me, can I see your license to give us a number this big?


I have a couple of stories to share, but I'll do that later this week...the lesson plans are calling me right now...