Homeroom Humor

Potty problems are not unknown in the youngest elementary students, but the children are not always willing to admit they have a problem. Such was the case with one little girl who frantically raised her hand and announced, “My chair is leaking!” Nancy Dal Pian, FL Beta Rho

Kindergarten was studying small animals in the fall and talking about rabbits and squir-Fluffy Tails rels. In the Arizona desert, we do not have the fluffy-tailed squirrels as other states do. We have small ground squirrels. One day, Joshua walked into class all excited and asked, “Teacher, are we going to talk about the squrabits again today?” “Probably,” she answered with a puzzled look. “Tell me something you remember about the squarbits.” Joshua answered, “You know they have fluffy tails! SQURABITS!” Then, she realized he had combined the names of both animals, the squirrel and the rabbit, and had come up with squrabits! (squirrel + rabbit = squra/bit) Betty Jo Evers, IVP for Membership

A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY

Sometimes, my students earn enough tokens to eat lunch in the room with me. One of the things we sometimes do is play music during that time. I usually play the “Kids Bop” version of songs because they’ve been PG’d and are mostly okay, lyric-wise. I had one student ask to listen to “Kanye.” I said, “Well, I can search to see if Kids Bop has a clean version of any Kanye songs, but I’m not sure if they will.” Disappointed, the student protested, “But Ms. Hill. He’s an old country singer.” And I said, “Kanye West, right?” He said with feeling, “NO! He’s Kanye Twitty and my grandpa had all his albums.”

Be still my heart...little man thought it was Kanye Twitty, not Conway Twitty. Rebecca Hill, KA Beta Epsilon

Keep It Simple

I teach 18 to 26 years old with Moderate Cognitive Impairments in a community-based program. We overheard this conversation in my classroom. Student 1: “Listen. You just need to eat, drink, have goals, and stay out of trouble every day.” Student 2: “Okay.” My work is done.

Karyn Juntunen, MI Gamma Alpha

The Write Stuff

I explained to my third graders that we would be learning a new type of handwriting, and the children went home filled with enthusiasm. The next day, I received a letter from a parent who had recently moved into the district from another part of the country whose accent was different than ours. He wrote, “Dear Ms. Couper, please do not teach my son cursing.” I was shocked. Why would he think I would teach any child to curse? Then it dawned on me; I had told my students that we would be learning cursive.

When I wrote a note to explain to the father that cursive hand-writing meant linking letters together, he replied saying that he was okay with the handwriting but he still didn’t want his son to learn to curse in school. Sue Couper, VA Alpha Rho