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We had several days of below zero degree weather The wind chill factor made it too cold for the students to go out for recesses.
One day a second grade student asked her teacher, "Just where is this wind chill factory anyway?"
Ardana Bruns
Madison, South Dakota
One of my mother's kindergarten students was in the process of completing a language activity and was stumped by a word.
He asked, "How do you spell punna?"
"Use it in a sentence," my mom said.
Her budding novelist replied, "You know, like in once a punna time..."
Brenda Nero
Patterson, New Jersey
I was teaching a spelling lesson to some first graders and for homework, they were to write a senfence using each spelling word.
One of the spelling words was the word "fair." You can imagine my surprise the next day when I read one young boy's sentence using this word.
It read, "My neighbor is having a fair with somebody else's wife." I realized I needed to do a quick vocabulary lesson for the word "fair."
We tend to forget just how much our little ones pick up from the world around them.
Pam Starratt
St. Augustine, Florida
While getting ready to write Valentine's Day letters to veterans, I asked my class if anyone knew what a veteran was. One of my students eagerly responded, "It is someone who doesn't eat meat."
Christopher Manfredi
Ludlow, Massachusetts For a week, my first and second graders were presenting science projects on ocean animals...