Student will tell you anything.

So, I am not Art Linkletter.  However, I think I should write a book about what students are willing to tell teachers and staff.  Children so say the funniest things. I asked a student if she was staying warm during this cold spell. The reasoning for my questions was she had a hat, mittens and her coat on while in the gym, trying to jump rope. This is her reply.

Student: “No, I am always hot at home; my dad built the biggest fire in the living room and my mom toss wood on it.”

Me: “Do you have a wood stove or a fire place.”

Student:  “I am not sure but it’s a big box”. 

Me: “How can I help you get warm? Maybe, if you move around more you will warm up.

Student: “Can’t you just build a fire in here that’s how my dad would do it.”

The conversation was a little entertaining and I wish I could tell her parents. She is just five years old and school is new concept to her.

These are the thing I here before school.

Male student: Mrs. Odell, my sister stucked her tongue to the metal window in the bus.

Me: Is she okay?

Male student: Yah, she just jerked her head back fast and pulled it off.  It looked like the kid who sticks his tongue on the goal post in that Christmas movie.

Me: Are you sure she is okay, is she bleeding?

Male student: Mrs. Odell, she pulled it off the window.  Not out of her mouth.

Later I talked to the little third grader to see if she was ok.

Girl student: “I’m fine; it just feels like I burned it on hot cocoa,” before I could say anything she stuck her tongue out and said, “Thseeeeeeeeeeeeee”, while holding on to her tongue.

Me: Why did you stick your tongue on the window?

Girl student: I wasn’t trying to stick my tongue. I was trying to see out the window and I was licking my lips cause they were dry. Then bam, my tongue was stuck and I panicked and pulled.

Me: are you ok now.

Girls student: Sure, but you can bet your fanny I will never to that again.

I wish I had it recorded. All the children in this family talk the same. They talk fast and have a speech impediment.  While, it is not funny, to make fun of a person’s disability, and in no way am I doing that, I am just saying it added to the comical story I heard. These students used to be my neighbors, so I have a closer relationship with them. They are the sweetest kids in the world. Their story will make me smile for year.    I guess in this case you really had to be there.