The things kids say

[Laura]

Hmmm, I can understand that!!!

[LAT]

You can?

[Laura]

Yeah - it's a musician thing! I really don't find music relaxing anymore - too much time studying it means my brain automatically starts analysing it, trying to work out how it would be notated etc, etc. And similarly, anything that clashes with anything else drives me up the wall. Lawnmowers, motorbikes.

When my granddad was in hospital last year, there were four beds, all with different monitors, beeping at different times. Drove me crazy!!!

[giraffe]

The microwave is apparently between two notes, so it hums at a quartertone (almost) K was singing along and trying to encourage it to sing in tune I think!

[Bunnylump]

Just had to share a comment from one of my teacher friend...

Quote of the week from a year 11 lad, who after a deep debate on the origins of anti-Semitism in 'The Merchant of Venice' summed up his thoughts on religion thus:
"Just imagine if Jesus came back right now and he was all like "I'm back muhhhfuckuhhhhhhhssss""
God I love my job.

[clvrlad]

Olly Thomas Sutcliffe
born TODAY
at 1257pm
Weighing in for a neat 5lbs 15 ounces

oh yeah and he sounds like a pet mouse.....according to kendra....

[Bunnylump]

This made me laugh, posted by Liam, one of my teacher friends.

Kids task in Year 9 today: reading Act 4 Scene 1, draw the three apparitions, quote what they say to Macbeth and translate it into modern English.

The First Apparition is an 'armed head', and all their textbook glossaries clearly show a picture of a guy's head in a knight's helmet.

Little did I remember, though, the one kid in my class that bought his own book in. Without the glossary...

[LAT]

That's a brilliant drawing!

But did he really imagine he looked like that?

[SparkOut]

I think that's a great interpretation

[Laura]

I suppose you could also interpret it as a floating head with a knife clenched between its teeth!!!

[Bunnylump]

Amongst other things, K got a really amusing gift from one of her class today. It was a letter, with the relevant chocolate bars attached in the appropriate places!

Dear Mrs. P
I wanted to send you on an AERO plane to new YORK(ie), or on a space ship to the MILKY WAY to say thank you for all you have done! You are always there to give me a BOOST when I begin to FLAKE. So enjoy your much needed TIME OUT in the summer holidays. I hope it involves lots of PICNICs. P.S. I hope this made you SNICKER(s).

[LAT]

That's really good!

[Biscuit]

I would love that letter and attachments.how clever

[kathlyn]

When I was running a brownie pack, many years ago, I used to play a game based on names of chocolate/sweet bars. If I wanted a quiet evening I would give each six a list and tell them to write a story using the names of the bars.

[eirian]

Ok, so I know Thomas has been called the 'Human Calculator', but how does asking what 6 x 8 equal lead to 'it's 64 minus 16'? (and he didn't work out the answer until after he'd said that)

[Bunnylump]

Well...he probably thought 8x8 =64 "I ate and I ate until I was sick on the floor" then took off the extras. Lateral thinking, I like that.

[Bunnylump]

Just sharing this gem from a post on my friend's Facebook page:

Child: Mrs Savage, you always smell nice. Do you spray perfume?
Me: Yes, I do. Do you like it?
Child: Yes, you smell like my Nanny's bathroom.

[SparkOut]

The things kids wives say...

Driving up
Mrs S: what are those pink flower things on the verges?
Me: Looks like <see if you can guess what I said>

Later
Mrs S: I'm going to look up that "Hobgoblin Willow Muncher" plant you said.

[Bunnylump]

Rose bay willow herb? I can't even imagine how she got there, though...

[SparkOut]

That's it. (Her next efforts at remembering got worse.)