While waiting for kids to be picked up after track practice, 2 kids were talking about how they talk to their friends about hanging out. One of them turned to me and said "do people in their 20s and 30s still hang out with people?" I told him we just sit at home and stare at the wall.
One of my students referenced the movie Raising Helen the other day. I commented that he seems to have a common theme amongst his favorite movies, which we have heard a lot about, including Newsies and Pearl Harbor. He clarified that "They aren't chick flicks. They're flicks WITH chicks."
The kids asked me about knowing The Hustle. I said I wasn't born in the 70s. One of the kids say "oh Miss G, you don't look a day over 42." Then he said "just kidding, you look exactly 25." So far off on either end...
During our track meet, we had one small "classic middle school track" moment. I was watching one of the sprint races and one of our kids, mid-race, ran straight out of his shoe and had to finish the race with one sock and one shoe. The best part was that one of the other coaches heard him when it happened and said he yelled out "DAMN IT, THAT'S THE SECOND TIME!" You think you'd learn to start lacing your shoes, but what do I know.
2 boys in my class are always messing around and then, when I get annoyed, love to say "oh, it's just a skit!". Today after class I was walking down the hall and one of them was chasing the other one. The one being bugged yelled out 'THIS IS NOT A SKIT!"
I teach a period of study skills to 6th graders. Today we started giving presentations to practice presentation skills. One student got up told us he was doing his presentation on the zoo. That sounded great until he just put up the zoo website and read every - single - page out loud. I mean, we're talking the admissions page, the directions page...every word. Finally after 10 minutes I told him he could probably wrap it up.
Another student gave a presentation on rock climbing. During the question and answer portion, we heard these gems: "Would a fear of heights be bad if you were rock climbing?" "What do you do when you get to the top?"
During her presentation, another student was trying to write that something was fourth, and instead wrote "4rth". Creative writing at it's finest.
A group of my 8th graders was presenting about the 80s. One student was wearing a shirt with Ronald Reagan on it, he's just into that kind of stuff. They performed a skit in which he, as Ronald Reagan, was shot by J, another student. Later, they were quizzing the class and the kid in the shirt said "who shot me?" and pointed to hit shirt. Another student yelled "J!"
The boys in my class that are really into lotion-ing up their elbows are still at it. One of them said he was going to take a picture and put it on facebook with the caption "#single".
One student walked into my class talking into his banana like a phone, then stood on the desk so he could get better reception. He did make me talk into it and yes, obviously I did.
Today I looked over during break and one of the boys was just shaking his butt around. I asked him what he was doing and he said "I'm practicing my twerking". You learn something new every day.
During one group presentation about a decade, the group had the class play musical chairs while they played music from their era. On the feedback sheet, one student wrote "unfair musical chairs rules". Bitter, party of one.
I received a note in my mailbox from a student, telling me what he worked on during study hall. At the bottom, he wrote "I HATE CATCHPHRASE JONES!" I had no clue what he was talking about, nor why he felt the need to tell me. Upon further research, I have found the following. You're welcome.
