Crutches, Crouches, Crunches and Cats

So another 8th grader is on crutches. She hurt "that thing in your knee that starts with an 'L.'" (ligament) So that prompted the following interaction... she had left her crutches at her desk and was stumbling toward the hallway.

Crutches Girl: I'm stumbling without my crunches!
Me: Crunches?
Crutches Girl: Oh. Crouches.

Try again. :-p



Then today in class, one of the boys started off with "Miss Book, I've been thinking about this all weekend... I was wondering, when we turn a light on, is that a chemical or a physical change? We were saying that light isn't made of particles, but I was still wondering if lighting something up makes it change..."
I was pretty jazzed that they were actually thinking about science outside of science class. His question was followed up by a question from Bus Pass Boy about what it means when people say that light is scattered (like when they explain how the sky is blue). So then we talked about that for a few minutes.
Then one of the girls raised her hand with a puzzled/thoughtful look on her face...
"I been thinking this whole time... Do cats really have nine lives?"

I'm still not sure how that related to anything...
The rest of the conversation went something like this:
Me: No.
Girl: So if I shoot a cat eight times, it won't still be alive?
Me: No.

Wow.