Week 1...

It's been a crazy busy week and a half for me, but I've been stockpiling a few quotables for you :)

Some of the best questions I've heard this week:

8th grade girl (whose demeanor just screams "ditz!"): When they go into space, do they go past the clouds?

8th grade boy: How old are you? Really? You look so young! Do you use Proactive? You don't?!?

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me: Make sure you show your work for number 5.
student: I can't show my work! I don't have a calculator!

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me: Okay, so a few things you need to know before we go outside to do this activity--
student: Watch out for pedophiles!

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me: As you learn more, you realize that subjects are more closely related than you thought.
student: Like science and math?
me: Yeah, as you get deeper into science, you realize that it's really very closely related to math and uses a lot of it...
student: Yeah! Like if you explode a 9, it makes a 1 and a 0!
me: What?
student: You know, explosions are like science, right?
me: Sure...
student: And if you explode a 9 apart it makes a 0 and a 1!

At that point I decided it was wise to just move on...

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While outside doing a measurement activity...
student: Miss Book, you'd better get out of the sun! You're going to get sunburned and turn red like Dorothy's shoes!