Homeroom Humor

Why can’t you iron a four leaf clover?

You might press your luck.

Fashion Show

I was pregnant with our second son and due around Easter. I dressed for school in what I thought was a nice spring maternity top. During my sixth period class, little giggles erupted from the back of the room. When asked what was so funny, they replied, “Mrs. Blankenship, you look like an Easter egg.” I had to laugh along with them. Conway Blankenship, International Chapter

What do you call a fake stone?

A shamrock rock

IT’S MY TEACHER!

A preschooler upon seeing me in the grocery store, shouted, “Why are YOU here?” I always shared this with my high school students who operated the community preschool in our class so they would be prepared the first time one of the children saw them outside the building.

Much as I loved chatting with my students, I was determined that we were going to use every minute on instruction, not allowing story after story to take us off track. If time remained at the end of the lesson, we’d visit.

One morning, first-grader Chanté was late for our reading intervention group. “Mrs. Pelchat, wanna know why I was late?” I told her no, that we had work to do. “But Mrs. Pelchat, doncha wanna know why I was late?” Again, no, we have lots of work to do. “But Mrs. Pelchat, can’t I tell you why I was late today?” She was so persistent, I knew we’d never get a lick of work done. So, I gave in and told her to go ahead and tell us why she was late. “I was late on account-a my skirt was too big and my mother had to sew it. She said I ain’t got no hips, so she had to sew it.” Smiling, I quipped that that was too bad because I had plenty of hips, and I could have given her as much as she needed. She pondered briefly, then matter-o’-factly replied, “Yah, well you’re too late cuz she already

sewed the skirt.” Sue Pelchat, International Chapter

Surprise!

Jayni, a Kindergarten student, was writing a caption for her painting. She summoned the teacher and asked,

“Teacher, how do you spell cup?” Teacher: “Say the sounds slowly and you will be able to hear which letters to write.” Jayni tried, “cccc____pppp.” Teacher: Try the letter u in the middle. The letter u says “uh” when it talks. Now say the word slowly. Jayni: ccc-uuu-p Success! And, she wrote the word cup correctly. Then, Jayni looked up at the teacher and said with excitement and a big smile on her face. “I didn’t know that u could talk!” Teacher: Now you know. Jayni spent the rest of her day “teaching” others that the letter u could talk. Betty Jo Evers, International Chapter