I was talking to my Grade 1 class about buffalo.  One of the students asked how you could tell a girl buffalo from a boy buffalo.  I replied that boy buffalo were usually bigger than the girls.  One of the other students looked at me and whispered, “No, you have to look at their bums!”.

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One of my students came to me in the hallway with her jacket undone.  She asked if she could go to her old babysitter who was down the hallway so that she could ask her to do it up for her.  I told her I thought she could do it on her own.  She went in the classroom and came out a few minutes later with her jacket all done up.  She looked at me and said, “you got me, I could do it!”.

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Our school went on a ski trip, and at this specific ski area there is also a tubing area. You get pulled up the hill on your tube and then you slide back down and in order to stop they place a bunch of bails for you to run into. Myself and a Kindergarten girl were the last to walk up to the hill for the first time. As we were getting closer she spotted the bails. She turned and looked at them and then turned back and looked at me and said “Who the hell would have a farm around here.” The look on her face was priceless and I could have fallen over laughing.

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I was beginning a unit on the Five Senses in a Grade 1 classroom and I opened my lesson asking the class if they knew what their five senses were. One little boy put up his hand in excitement and said, “Oh! Those are those little round things you can buy candy with!!”
I was beginning a unit on the Five Senses in a Grade 1 classroom and I opened my lesson asking the class if they knew what their five senses were. One little boy put up his hand in excitement and said, “Oh! Those are those little round things you can buy candy with!!”

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I was having trouble with two boys in my Kindergarten class.  A colleague suggested that I use a punch card that she found on pinterest.  Throughout the day, I would check in with the boys and if they had been using appropriate behaviour, they would get to use a whole punch to punch out one of the numbers.  Once they got to 20 punches, they would get to choose a prize.  On our first day trying it out, one of the boys was off task during my lesson.  I stopped my lesson and asked in a stern voice, “Are you going to get a punch this morning?”  All of the kids stopped what they were doing and stared at me.  I realized that it didn’t come out as intended!