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ideaI teach one of the pre-k classes at a private preschool and kindergarten. Our class had just gotten a new member who had never been in daycare or school before. So all during center time Jeffrey followed me around crying and asking "mama's coming?". Nothing I or the other teacher could do would calm him down. He finally settled down after a while, but the first thing the next morning he started in again with the "mama's coming?". After about ten minutes of me assuring him that his mother would return, one little girl walked right up to him and said (very loudly) "YES! Your mama's coming!" and walked away. Jeffrey was so shocked that he stopped being upset and just looked at her like she had lost her marbles!. I am a preschool teacher. I teach four year olds. Throughout the school year I made note of all the funny sayings that the kids said. Most of these sayings were said during free play time while the children were playing dress-up. One day the kids were talking about mommy's and daddy's getting married. They were on the subject about wedding rings. One little girl said that "men don't wear rings". A little boy playing with her replied: "on wedding days, they do." One little girl in my room had the hardest time playing one day. She kept running away from her friends and standing behind a tree. I finally asked her "what's the matter". She replied by saying: "every time I wear these overalls, I get a wedgies". I died laughing. Me and this same little girl had a conversation during art one day. We were painting pigs for a project one day and the girl got paint all over herself. I told her: "now you look like a little piggy. let's get you cleaned up." "Look, you have some on you too," she responded. "it will come off," I said. "I don't know. I don't think it comes off chocolate." I thought this was the cutest remark that a child could make.
ideaI work with three and young four year olds. I have a few cute stories to share. One day at lunch, a three year old boy was gathering everyone's apple seeds. When I asked him why he replied, "To feed the squirrels and chickenmunks." Same child was playing with the Barbies. His Barbie drove in a car to the store. The Barbie was returning home when the child stopped and said, "I forgot the cigarettes." I said to the child, "You know Andy, cigarettes are very unhealthy." His response was, "Don't worry. I won't smoke them in here." One day while we were outside playing on the structure, my husband stopped by because he forgot his keys. The children all flocked to the fence because my husband is a soldier and was in uniform. I gave him the keys and he walked back to the car. Another car pulled up and another soldier got out. The children got very excited. One little boy asked me, "Is that your other one?" I have also worked with 2 year olds. One two year old had a bowel movement in the potty. It had curled into a spiral shape. The child stood up and said, "Look Crystal, I did a fancy poop." Prior to working in daycare I worked in an elementary school. A staff member in the kindergarten class was pregnant. She wasn't feeling well and had to sit down. A child approached her and asked, "Would you like me to call your mom?" That same woman had complications with the pregnancy and had to go to Winnipeg (a nearby city) to have the baby. The following year my mom went to work at that same school. I was no longer there. She told the children that she was my mom. One child asked her where I was. She told the child that I had moved to Winnipeg. "Is she having a baby?" I was not.
ideaI was waiting for the bus with some of the older kids at my center who go to public school. Now I have this little boy whom is fascinated with trucks, buses, etc. So I brought him along to wait with us. Well the bus was running a little late so I began to say "where is that bus" And my little preschooler looked up at me and said "Yeah where is that damn bus!" I almost fell on the floor laughing and he just kept saying it until I finally could stop laughing and give him a new way to say it without the not so nice word:)
ideaWhile supervising the playground during outdoor play, I came into weekly memory of humor. While drawing a picture on the outdoor chalk board, I asked a little to tell me about her picture. She said it was her baby brother. New to the center, I asked her how old her brother was. She remarked he was a year old. I asked her if she helps with feeding her, keeping in mind this little girl was four years old. She said no that he fed himself his bottle. I then proceeded in asking her if she helped feed him when he was a little baby. It was then that this little one alarmed me with a touch of mother nature. Her answer was "no mommy's boobies fed him."
3-12-01I teach 4 year year olds and one day while on the playground, my partner teacher noticed one of our little boys on the top of the monkey bars peeing across the playground and other children running underneath it. When we went out to stop it, my partner teacher asked, "What are you doing", the child responded, Don't worry Mrs. Hopson, we're on fire and he's the fireman! We couldn't help but laugh!
3-12-01My class was eating lunch and the menu that day contained applesauce. One of the children was having a difficult time eating the rest of his meal without his hand touching the applesauce. After finally becoming very frustrated over this he sighed loudly and firmly shouted, "can't a man just eat his lunch without getting applesauce on his fingers?" Needless to say, this little "man" had us all laughing!
1-18-01This is some pre-school humor. One afternoon during lunch we were having some fruit cocktail. One little boy raised his hand and said "Miss Susie, can I have some more "fruit-n-cottontail"?
1-13-01One morning while cleaning up after snack a boy in my four year old class came up to me with a question. "Do you want to know a secret?" he asked. I asked him if he really wanted to share this secret. He was over joyed to share his secret with me. " You know some times my mom wears underwear under her clothes and some times she doesn't!" I told my little friend that this is a secret that I think he should keep between his mother and him self. It was hard for me to look at his mother from then on with out thinking of our little conversation.
1-13-01I teach 4 year olds. Most of the time there is this one little girl who is always hanging out with the teachers... she thinks she is one of us...One day while outside on the play yard my co teacher and I were talking about one of the students in the class, unaware that Lauren was right there, we were saying how he was in his own little world right now.. well about a week later, Lauren is watching this little boy outside and looks at me and says to me "Miss Tami, why is Eddie always on his own Earth?"
12-28-00One morning we were evaluating our preschoolers cognitive skills. We asked each child to count to five. Then we asked, "Who can count backwards?" One girl jumped up and said, "I can, I can!" She then turned her back to the class and said "1,2,3,4,5!"
12-5-00One day in my preschool class, a boy named David had to go to the bathroom. I told that he would have to wait because another child was using it. He said, "Okay, I'll just hold my penis".
12-5-00One of my four year olds was building a boat out of Legos, when one of his friends asked him was it a fishing boat, Parker answered no, well is it a sailboat? Parker answered no way, this is the love boat!
11-30-00Our Canadian national anthem includes the words, "God keep our land glorious and free." As we were standing singing the anthem in the kindergarten room, Keifer asked, "Why do they keep saying Keiferland?" Ever tried singing, while trying to suppress laughter?
11-30-00Today I was making pumpkin pie with my preschoolers. They were all taking turns adding the ingredients to the bowl. My first little one did a wonderful job of cracking her egg. However, there was some shell to be taken out. As I was doing this, one of my very precocious four year olds questioned why I was picking through the egg. I explained that with the eggshell, our pie might be a little crunchy. She told us in the sweetest voice, "Well, on Saturday's when my daddy makes the scrambled eggs, they're always crunchy."
11-10-00"Hooked on Phonics" I teach a multi-age preschool class with 3 to 5 year old children. We work on letters and sounds at circle time. A little girl who is 3 1/2 has become very interested in writing letters and working with letters and their sounds. She apparently was giving attitude to her mother one night and the mom said she was going to give her a "whoopin'". The little girl goes "Wha-wha-wha, that's 'W'!". The mom said "Oh, so your hooked on phonics, now?"
11-7-00We have a very nice bus driver in our school district, and he loves to take my preschoolers on our field trips. He is an older gentleman, who is bald, and usually wears a ball cap. On the way to our Pumpkin Patch field trip, I noticed the bus driver take off his hat. It wasn't long before I had a tap on my shoulder. "Hey, Megan!! Look!!! Steve (the bus driver) has skin growing on his hair!!!" Isn't that clever, he wasn't bald he just has some extra skin. Tell that one to any balding man you know, I'm sure he will get a kick out of it.
11-5-00I work at a preschool with 3-4 year olds. On day A parent came in and told me what her child was doing the night before. Ben put on a pair of Mr. Potato head glasses, and said with the glasses on "I'm Miss Diane," and then took them of and said, "now I'm Miss Shannon." It was so cute!!!!
11-5-00I work in a site based child care center, second shift. We were having midnight snack once before the kids went to bed. Because we had already put their pajamas on, they wore smocks. Once child tipped her juice into her lap. We quickly pulled the smock off before the juice soaked through. "Praise the Lord! My 'jamas are dry!" she said. Another child chimed in, "Hallelujah!"
11-5-00I work in a site based child care center, second shift. One night as we were discussing night time animals, I told them we were going to play a guessing game. I would describe something and they would guess what it was. I started out, "What animal in our room stays awake after you go to bed?" One of my little girls looked at me and answered, "Ms. Cassie!" Not quite the answer I was looking for, but fundamentally true.
10-23-00One day, my 4's and I were talking about what they would like to be when they grew up. One of my girls said "I want to grow up and be like Ms. Tracy." My heart just melted. The next child said, "I wanna work in the mall." The first girl said "no wait- I wanna work in the mall instead." Aww...replaced so quickly.
10-23-00I had a child, that was throwing a royal fit...She was kicking and screaming. You know one of those real good fits that a child can have if she just does not want to pick up her toys when it is time. Well, as this child was having her fit another child went over to her and said," If I acted like that my mama would give me a real good spanking..." From the mouths of babes!
10-23-00At the beginning of the school year, some of my children were looking at books while others were finishing their projects. I noticed that several children gathered around Logan who was "reading" a book to them. Logan's audience was laughing as Logan read. One little girl asked Logan how he knew what the story was. Logan replied. "I'm reading the pictures." The little girl then asked, "Then what are the words there for?" Logan replied, "The words are there for the people who can't read the pictures!"
10-7-00I teach toddlers, aged 2-3, in a daycare. Just today I was changing one of my older 2's and noticed she was wearing a small bra under her shirt. When I asked her what it was, she replied very proudly "I'm wearing mommy's boobies." I laughed for the rest of the day at that one. :)
10-7-00My four year old preschool class was discussing pumpkins. I took a pumpkin to class and carved it and read Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater to them. We took a puppet on a stick and placed it inside the pumpkin. I then asked the children "why do you suppose that Peter could not keep his wife?" One little boy raised his hand in confidence and answered.... "Because she had WAY to many credit cards."
10-2-00I was doing my student teaching at a Head Start program. All of us were sitting at the table eating lunch. One of the girls in my class asked me to pass her the "cotton cheese" I giggled and explained to her it was called "cottage cheese" she giggled and said that doesn't make sense. I thought to myself it does look like cotton.
9-30-00One day last fall, I was talking to a kindergartener named Kamaria. She asked me if I liked Michael Jackson. I said not particularly, and she answered back, "I like Michael Jackson. I like both of them." I asked what she meant by both of them and she replied, I like the black one and the white one."
9-26-00One morning we were putting handprints on our "All About Me" placemats. When we were nearly done, I asked the children if there was anyone left who hadn't hand painted yet. One little boy said, "I don't think you did me. If you did, I didn't see it." It was cute and gave us a chuckle.
9-17-00I teach PK-4. One day my children were extra "rowdy" during our Bible lesson. I finally had enough of their silliness and told everyone that I was very upset with the behavior of the class. Everyone became very quiet then, Marissa, (my social butterfly), stood up with her arms open wide and said, "Group hug, group hug". I could do nothing but smile. We had a great day after our hug.
9-17-00One day, while cleaning up after my children's lunchtime, I noticed that our recycling bin smelled really badly. A co-worker walked in, noticed it as well, and asked, "what is that?". At the same time, one of my 3 year olds walked out of the bathroom, and having overheard, said, completely seriously, "It's my feet, I took my socks off"!
9-11-00A 3 year old girl I was teaching had been coughing all week long. Everyday I asked her if she was getting sick. Everyday she said no. Then on Friday when I asked if she was getting sick, she said "No, I think its salmonella poisoning."
9-11-00My class was working with a puzzle of the food pyramid and one piece is a can with a fish on the front (Tuna). One child asked the others "what is this?" and someone answered "that's tuna fish". The first child then asked "what's tuna fish?" A little boy very seriously replied "oh, it's fish that's been tuna-ed".
9-11-00I teach 4 year old Kindergarten. One of my little guys, Jason, cute with bright red hair and freckles and a "real challenge" who said what ever popped into his head and was real quick on his feet. The church I worked at had Ladies Bible Study every Wednesday. One Wednesday we were walking back from the lunch room, Jason was our leader and I was walking in front of him. We got to the door to enter the preschool building just as a "very" large woman came out. Jason said (in a loud voice) "WHAT A.. I quickly turned around to look at him and gave him a "don't you dare" look! He smiled at me and finished his sentence with "beautiful woman." Needless to say, I could not keep a straight face. Like I said, "He's quick on his feet!!"
9-10-00I work at a site-based daycare. We were putting the two year olds to bed one night. One of my Co-teachers was leaving for the day when a child said Mrs. Menda, are you going to work now? How sweet is that.
9-10-00Two year olds are great. While discussing going to the potty a boy looked at me and said " I have a penis" I replied that yes he did have a penis, He pointed to a friend, also a boy and said he has a penis. Again I replied yes he has a penis too. Then the child pointed at me and said Mrs. Jayda has a penis. I said ,no, Jayda is a girl and she doesn't have a penis. We had already taught this child to tell our boss that we needed a raise but that afternoon when we asked him to tell her what we needed he said, very seriously, Mrs. Jayda needs a penis! My favorite story.
9-9-00I teach a class of 4-5 year olds, and one day one little boy seemed to be concentrating very hard on the blank computer screen. I went over to ask him what he was doing and he said "oh nothing...I'm just buying a motorcycle off the internet...It was one of the cutest things I had ever heard!
9-9-00In my 4K class, we have a pet rabbit. The rabbit's name is Pepper. We waited a while before we let the rabbit out of the cage because I wanted the children to get used to the room first. On the big "COMING OUT" day. The children gathered around and watched. I asked if anyone could tell me the rabbit's name and one little girl very confidently answered, "SALT!"
9-8-00Last year, I lost my voice. I was told I couldn't use it for 10 days to avoid losing it completely. So during circle time, my aide told my class that I had lost my voice. After circle time, little Naomi tugged on my skirt to get my attention. As I bent down to listen to her, she whispered to me, "Did you look under your bed?"
8-20-00After a celebration at preschool one day, Bryce, a very clever 5 year old, said to my Aide, "Miss Loretta, do you know why my parents didn't come today like everybody else's?" Loretta answered "Didn't they have to work Bryce? A lot of parents didn't come because they had to work." Bryce replied "No, it's because they are slack parents." Our slack parents are now and always were the hardest working helpers we have this year. Through fear of more public shame perhaps!
8-2-00I teach 4&5 year olds and at that age they always talk about getting married. One day Hannah said she was going to marry Bryce. I asked her what Ms. Karen's rule about marriage was and all the kids replied, "You have to finish College first"! Well, one boy groaned and Hannah said "Oh, College is fun. You get to go to the donut store in the middle of the night in your jammies!
8-2-00This is a small story that came to me from a parent. Her son ( who is in my class 3 years old) had just been drawing on the walls of a freshly painted house. She sat him down and started to explain to him that this was not ok and that he was going to spend time in a time out. Just then, he looked up at her and said.." Mom, You're so pretty...you look just like Cinderella. He got out of this time out.....and we all still get a laugh out of it.
7-18-00While playing with the various utensils in the play dough bin, Russell, a very precocious 3 year old, inquired as to the function of a particular utensil. I replied that the instrument could be used to make "hair" or "spaghetti". Russell looked at me with great sympathy and explained to his disillusioned teacher that the utensil was quite simply a garlic press.
7-9-00
areaDuring circle time we were discussing Spring Time and the weather, and the question that i asked my 3year olds was, "Who can tell me what happens when it rains?" One little boy raised his hand and said, "My Cable goes out." (smile).
6-15-00I work with preschool group .One day during snack time we were having muffins and as we were passing the muffins around I started to open the milk. I noticed that a child had no longer a muffin on the table or did not seem to be chewing her muffin . So I asked, "Kallie what happened to your muffin" she did not respond . I started to look under the table ,on the floor ,everywhere around her .After asking her about two more times where she threw the muffin she finally responded "I throwed it in my mouth"!
6-14-00I teach a before- and after-school program at a daycare. One morning I needed to drive the children to school in an old red van instead of the usual white bus that was being used by an affiliated church group. The director later entered my classroom to inform me that the church group called to say that the white bus had broken down. Four-year-old Chelsea sighed, "Miss Jodi, it's a sad day for our bus."
6-11-00During our lesson on "How We Have Grown" we were putting together a baby made out of paper. A mother came to the class to visit. she asked us what we were doing. Little Skyler said. "Oh we are just in here making babies".
6-4-00Our lunch time is so stressful after each teacher is done eating we allow the
children to have extras of what food is left. On one very stressful
day I was almost done when young Trent asked me if he could have more minutes. I
told him to go ahead and take his time we were in no hurry, a look of disgust
came to his face and he said again "May I please have more minutes of corn?"
Then it hit me we always ask the children if they would like seconds of
anything.
Date: 3-30-00I teach a wonderful group of 4 and 5 year-olds in my home-preschool. Today during Rhyme Time we were reciting "Mary, Mary Quite Contrary." One little girl was giving it her by saying, "Mary, Mary, quite contrary. How does your garden grow. With silver bells and taco shells and pretty caves all in a row." We all laughed and joined her in reciting the nursery rhyme "Megan-style!"
Date: 3-30-00I work in a Day Care Center in a Preschool Room. Our unit for the week was Letter Recognition. I was putting together a chart at home for the next day at school. At the top it said "What Is Your Favorite Letter". While working on this my six year old daughter came over to me, read it and said "Mommy, guess what my favorite letter is". I decided to play along with her and guessed a couple of letters and each time I was followed by a "no". Finally I asked her what her favorite letter was, and she said "A". I asked "Why A"? And she said "No mommy just A.
Date: 3-23-00I have a preschool in my home. The other day my neighbor's boy who comes to my preschool came over to play with my 5 year old. He said he would like to watch a movie. I asked what he wanted to watch and he told me "Embarrassing Bears". I was not sure what movie he was referring to until my son said the one where they make a mess and clean it up. I had a hard time not laughing out loud when I realized he was wanting Berenstain Bears and the Messy Room. Now we always refer to it as the Embarrassing Bears. Kids are sure fun.
Date: 3-22-00Brian's Mom came in with a darling story. Brian asked, "Mom, today is a holiday just for girl's right?" "Brian, why would you think that St. Patrick's Day is just for girls?" Brian explained. "I wear shorts not panties." Happy St. Panties Day to all!
Date: 3-22-00While our pre K class was outside playing. The wind began to blow and the white tree blossoms began to fall. One child runs over and exclaims "it's snowing blossoms". The kids all got excited and played with some "snow" in March in Eastern North Carolina where we do not get much snow.
Date: 3-20-00It was rest time's and I was rubbing Kyle's back when he looked up at me and said, "When you rub my back it feels like sugar". My heart melted.
Date: 3-11-00It was the end of the day and I was talking to a new parent that had just started their child at our center. When another student of mine came out and said: "Miss Kim I went poopie on the potty and it was 30 lbs." The parent laughed and I turned a dark shade of red. That was something for the journal book. All I can say is out of the mouth of babes... (HaHa)
Date: 3-8-00Today at school we practiced our tornado drill. One of my three year olds cried though the whole thing. When I asked her why she was crying she popped her head up and said, as only she can, "I don't have to do this, I don't want to do this, Take me back to the room! I calmly explained that we were only practicing but we could not get up until the principal told us to. She continued to cry until we went back into the room. After everything had calmed down and we were on the playground I asked her why she was so upset about the tornado drill. She calmly stated, "There was no tornado so we didn't have to be on our knees." I asked her how she knew there was no tornado. In a shocked voice she replied, "Mrs. Lisa, the school wasn't shaking or flying away! She was completely right and all the staff got a good laugh!
Date: 3-8-00A new child at school last week was very excited about coming to school. I was getting ready to do music and movement by selecting a record when I over heard her say, "Whoa...big C-D.
Date: 3-1-00My daughter attended the Preschool where I work. One morning when I brought her in I explained to my co-worker that we had had a small fire in a light fixture the night before at our house so she would probably be talking a lot about it through out the day. I went on to my class and about an hour later my co-worker called down to my room and said that my daughter wanted to share her story for show and tell and wanted me to be there because other children had their parents due to a special parents breakfast. After getting coverage for my room, I went to my daughter's class. Besides me there were about eight other parents present. When it was my daughter's turn she proceeded to tell everyone about the night before. She told everything from when the fire started to when the fire department left. She ended her story with ("And then we went to the bar.") She sat down and said the end. My mouth dropped and every parent and teacher in the room was staring at me. When I recovered from the shock of what she had just said, I said my turn! And went on to explain that the person who owned the bar we went to also owned my house and I had to let them know what had happened and that my mother worked the door there and I wanted to let her know everything was O.K.!! It has been two years since that has happened and some of those same parents have children that still attend there, and every once in a while a parent or teacher from that day will tease and ask me if there have been anymore fires or bar visits. Be careful you never know what children will say so always be on guard.
Date: 3-1-00Today while our pre-school children were eating lunch one of my co-teachers and I were discussing what we where going to be doing this weekend and if we could get together for a day. I asked her if she could not go were we wanted to go what would she do? She said that she would go window shopping. That's when one of our children said " Why do you have to buy new windows?" We could not stop laughing.
Date: 2-29-00I teach at a day care, I have older 2's and younger 3's...also known as the "potty room". While taking a boy to the potty and he missed a little, getting his pants wet, I then reached above him on the shelves getting him some dry clothes. Doing this I knocked over a poster board that then hit him right between the eyebrows. He was ok but did have a little red mark. His parents had a little laugh and said that he got his way the rest of the day didn't he? And I agreed. Months latter when this same 3 year old kicked one of his friends I had him on my lap explaining why we don't hit and he looks at me and says "do you remember that day when you hit me with that poster board?" And he got out of the talk about hitting because I was laughing to hard!
Date: 2-29-00I teach a very smart class of toddlers! One day, not so long ago, my words came back to haunt me. I was showing the class a newly developed roll of film featuring their classmates. One of my older girls was screaming "ME SEE!! ME SEE!!" after each picture. I assured her that everyone was going to get to see each picture. This did nothing to console her. She continued her screaming. Finally on the last picture she was silenced. My oldest boy leaned over and got very close to her face. He said in all seriousness...."Krista, CHILL!" I thought I was going to die. I could not stop laughing. I have used that word in the past when everyone is crying and there is nothing in particular wrong. I guess that he remembered it. It will treasure that memory and smile every time I think of it. :)
2-23-00During circle time my students are often finding "treasures" on our rug such as beads or sparkles. So one day while my assistant was asking me a question I heard one student say, "Here Cindy this is for you." I said thank you to the boy and put out my had while still looking at my assistant. It was then I actually heard the rest of his sentence, what he actually said was, "Here's a booger for you Cindy!" My assistant still laughs as to how calm I was when I said, "Next time please use a tissue instead of Cindy's hand!" I have since learned to look at what the students are handing to me before taking them. :)
2-20-00A typical day in Head Start: we were exercising in the large group area when one of my boys stopped the activity and looked very shocked. I asked him what was wrong and he pointed to my old record albums I was going through and said "Mrs. Angie, you sure got some big ol' CD's!" I still tell that one and it is two years old!!!
Date: 2-9-00It was outside time at our school when a little boy was standing in the corner rubbing his eye's. I walked up to him and noticed his eyes were watering, I asked him why he was crying, His response was, "I'm not crying, my eyes are sweating!"
Date: 2-6-00One afternoon as I was handing out notices to the children at dismissal time, I did not get any response from Cristina after calling her name several times. So I said jokingly to the class, " I guess Cristina changed her name, since she's not answering me." Finally awakened, Cristina came up to me, and said seriously, "My name is Brittany Spears, but you can call me Cristina!"
Date: 1-30-00One day a little boy in my class was very excited about something his family had done. I proceeded to tell me a very long and drawn out story about it as we know children will do. Well, I was very busy trying to get things put away and gather the children into the same area and every thing was very hectic so I was listening with only half an ear. Any way when the child had finally finished the story (I still don't know what it was about) I tried to reply with excitement in my voice so I said "HOT DOG, that must have been really exciting" The child looked at me with a little confusion and said "Miss Kathy, I not a hot dog I a boy" I had to laugh at that.
Date: 1-30-00One Monday, one of my mother's came in. I asked how her weekend was. I was not expecting the answer that I got. She said that her 4 year old daughter Katy was playing with peanuts on Friday night. The mother did not think anymore about the peanuts. She just thought Katy ate them. On Saturday Katy told her mother that her nose hurt. Please get the peanut out. Her mother looked up into her nose and saw the peanut up inside. She tried to get it out with tweezers. This made it worse! The peanut pushed further up into the nose. They went to the emergency room. When the doctor asked Katy why she stuck a peanut up her nose, she replied, "My name is not Katy, my name is Dumbo. I was trying to eat the peanut. I put it up my snout, but it got stuck!" Can you say BIG IMAGINATION? The doctor pulled the already swollen peanut out of her nose and told her to use her mouth next time.
Date: 1-19-00Two girls in my group were acting very silly and getting a little out of hand so I told them that they would both be getting minutes on a chair and could not play in the gym until their time was up. One girl received 6min and the other 8min. Just before our Gym time, we had a small circle time and I told the girls that if they sat quietly and were good listeners during this circle I would cut their time in half. A little boy who was obviously not paying attention to the entire conversation turns to me with horror in his eyes and says, "your going to cut the children in half?" Well both the girls and I could not help but laugh. I reassured him that I was cutting their time in half and not the girls. Date: 1-15-00One day I asked a 4-year-old Annie who just moved here from Tennessee to
Wisconsin, to tell us what state she use to live in, She said "I didn't
live in a state I Date: 12-30-99When my daughter was about 2 years old, she had by that time heard us say "Bless you" whenever she or someone else would sneeze. One day I was holding her as we were looking at our phone book and she sneezed. She said," Mommy, I just blessed the phone book." Ü Date: 12-28-99One day I was not feeling well and was leaving school early. One of my four year olds looked at me and said, " Miss Lisa , your mom should have kept you home today." I wonder where she had heard that before. Date: 12-28-99Recently at the end of our Christmas program, Santa came out on stage. One of my four-year old cuties leaned over and said "you, know what Miss Pam? That's a fake Santa." I said ,"I know, sweetie, but don't tell anyone." The next day as we were headed outside to play, the same little boy told me that he knows that was one of Santa's helpers because the real Santa is too busy at the North Pole getting fat so he can bring us toys!" Date: 12-28-99During our unit on the Five Senses, we passed a mirror around during circle time so we could look at our taste buds. One darling little girl took a good look, then said, "I just don't see no stinkin' taste bugs." I laughed so hard I had to leave the room. 12-23-99After a rather hectic play period, I unconsciously asked one three year old if she had lost her marbles. She stared at me pensively for a moment and replied, "No, but I can't find my checkers!" 12-22-99After a hectic "wrap it up before Christmas" day, one of my co-workers was handing out her Christmas presents to the children in her class. As she would call each child to her to present her gift, she would also give a big hug. As one little girl got her hug she said," Miss Kathy, I know why you're hugging us. There's no more school!" ideaThis was emailed to me by a friend who teaches 4th and 5th graders....it's so cute I thought I would share it with everyone! Science Sillies from the 4th and 5th grades: The spinal column is a long bunch of bones. the head sits on the top and you sit on the bottom. It's so hot in some places that people have to live in other places. the four seasons are salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar. The alimentary canal is located in the northern part of Indiana. Thunder is a rich source of loudness. Some people can make out the time by looking at the sun, but I have never been able to make out the numbers. One of the main causes of dust is dirt. A monsoon is a French gentleman. To keep milk from turning sour, keep it in the cow. Water vapor gets together in a cloud. When it gets big enough to be called a drop, it does. You can listen to thunder and tell how close you are to getting hit. If you don't hear it, you got hit, so never mind. Date: 12-20-99We had been studying Hanukkah all week. On the last day, we played the dreidel game. The children each won some gelt, which is the gold foiled candy money. One of the 3 year olds in my class said "Look Miss Wendy! I won Hanukkahs!" Date: 12-11-99This week as we were dismissing the afternoon preschool class I called a little girl off of the swing who was taking a lot of time. I said," Alexis, it's time to go." The girl on the swing next to her said," That's my daddy's car's name. I asked her what she meant and she replied," His car's name is A Lexus too!!" Date: 12-11-99Cold season hit our Pre-k class very hard with many sniffles, coughs and sneezes. We were sitting in circle one day when one little guy sneezed. The friend next to him was excited to point out "Austin!! Look!! You have God Bless You all over your shirt!!" ideaOne day in class we were playing letter bingo. I had passed out game chips to each child, knowing I had given each child enough chips. But one of my 3 year olds decided to be funny. During the game he chimed up saying, "Ms. Shelly I don't have any chips left, I only have crackers." This was not humor I would expect from a 3 year old. Date: 12-2-99idea 11-27-99One morning, while playing in the dramatic play area with several of my four year olds, we were discussing fruits and vegetables. One of my girls brought me a plate of plastic vegetables and told me to eat my food. I asked her "Why do I need to eat the beans? Are they good for me?" She looked at me and responded, "Miss Wendy they are good for you. Beans make your bowels move." I have never laughed so hard over a remark from a child. ideaWalking down the hall one day with my ECE students one little boy held up his hand and asked, "teacher, is this my right hand?" I told him yes it was. He then held up his other hand and said, "Then this is my wrong hand." Date: 11-21-99ideaOne year when I was teaching a class of three year olds one of the girls went down to use the bathroom. All was quiet until we heard the toilet flush, followed by her scream of "I went too much! I went too much!". I walked in the bathroom to find that the toilet had overflowed and and spilled water all over the floor! Date: 11-17-99ideaI was potty training a two year old child and it had been a difficult endeavor without much laughter or success. It was a long week and my co-teacher and I were pleasantly surprised when we heard the squeals of joy coming from the bathroom and the announcement that one of the boys in our classroom had successfully "made water". We chuckled and returned to our routines when the same boy came out of the bathroom with his pants down around his ankles. He had one single square piece of toilet tissue pressed to the very end of his penis and with is hips swinging back and forth proudly declared "Look, a flag!" My co-teacher and I laughed for hours. Date: 11-13-99Contact_FullName: ideaAthena just turned 4 years old. She had been very sick, so we had stayed home for several days. When she began to feel better she came to me with a mental list of all the stores she wanted to go shopping in. I told her, "Sweetie we can't go to all those stores because I'm broke". Without missing a beat she says, "No mom. You're together. Look, no pieces". And off she went to get my purse and our jackets. Date: 11-6-99ideaI have a little boy in my preschool class named "Rowdy". We had been working on using our manners for some time when he became restless. I was quick to say, "Are you using your manners..." His response was..."I Rowdy, not manners." I laughed for days--he really does live up to his name. Date: 11-6-99ideaThe toilet flushes very loudly in my class restroom, and many of my kids bolt out of the room after flushing. I try to time it so I can flush for some of the more "sensitive" ones. Too late, one day, I saw Joe with both hands over his ears, flushing with his elbows! Date: 10-31-99ideaOne day I was talking to my kids in my preschool-3 room about what they wanted to be. Somehow they got onto the topic of cats, and the one little boy Christoper told me, "I can't have a cat, cuz I've got a landlord!" His mom I found out later had been trying to explain for weeks that their landlord wouldn't let them have cats!!!! Date: 10-31-99ideaI am a home child care provider and each day we walk to the local playground. One day, just after we arrived at the playground, my recently potty trained son Dustin announced that he had to "poopie." When I asked him if he could hold it until we got home, he exclaimed "No mommy, my hands will get dirty!!!" One day I was changing a particularly stinky diaper and I muttered to myself "holy cow". Samantha, the little girl I was changing replied, "moo". Date: 10-31-99ideaOne day during free choice one of my four year old boys said to me," Nanette, I like cows." I asked him, "What do you like about cows?" He replied, "They moo." I said, "I bet you like the fact that you can get ice-cream from a cow too." He looked at me rather puzzled and replied, " No sir, we get our ice-cream from the Schwans guy!" (A grocery delivery service in our area.) Date: 10-21-99ideaThe room in which I teach has a leaky roof so when it rains in we place buckets and plastic all over that area. The first day it happened the kids thought it was wonderful and we measured how far the water went up in the buckets and talked about why it was raining in, etc. One little boy was so intrigued by this whole set of events that he spent most of his work time standing by the area just watching it rain in. A few days later when the buckets and plastic were gone even though it was another rainy day, I announced to the class that we wouldn't be going out to play because of the rain. The little boy who had been intrigued the other day with the rain looked over at that part of the room, looked up at the ceiling then told me that it wasn't raining so we could go out. He was convinced since it wasn't raining in the room it couldn't be raining outside. We laughed for days just thinking about the whole incident. Date: 10-14-99ideaI teach preschool on Long Island, New York. One day, while having a discussion about occupations, a little girl in my class responded to the question, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" She quickly responded with, "a fire hydrant." Date: 10-1-99ideaDuring circle time in my Pre-K classroom one day we were playing a game of alphabet bingo. When the children guessed the letter right, I asked them a word that started with that letter. When I got to R, one of the boys got very excited and rose his hand. I asked him what word he had that began with R and he replied, "R-R-R-Rum"! It was so cute, I had to leave the room!! Date: 10-1-99ideaOne morning, my kindergarten students were entering the classroom. While we were getting settled, some of the students were discussing what pizza place they were going to for a friend's birthday party. I began asking individual students what their favorite kind of pizza was. When I got to Eric, he thought for a moment and then replied "The triangle kind!" Date: 9-29-99ideaAt the end of the day we take out our post office to write. A child was writing his name and wrote the word MAMA. He came over and said," See, I wrote my mothers nickname!" ideaMy 4 year old daughter has declared herself the bathroom monitor. When we go grocery shopping she helps put away the toiletries. Recently she forgot to alert me to the fact that we were running low on toilet paper. When the other day she used that last of it she proclaimed to her father that "we have a tragic shortage of toilet paper". Date Posted: 9-23-99ideaI teach pre-k, and last week one of my 4 year old boys said he was going to the dentist. He said that he hoped the dentist would pull one of his teeth. When I asked him why, he said, "So I can put it under my pillow for the dairy tooth queen!" Date: 9-15-99 ideaOne of the little boys informed that when it snowed out a dog decided to go pee in his yard and the next thing he knew his grass was yellow, he figured it was a miracle from God. Date: 9-9-99Date: 8-19-99When reading the story There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly, one of my three year olds said "She can't swallow a bird, she'll choke!" Date: 7-27-99I'm a home daycare provider. One day last summer I decided it would be fun for the kids to watch me cook a pan of Jiffy Pop on the stove. I asked the kids what they thought was inside as I started shaking it. As the foil top arose and got bigger one 5 year old little girl looked at my with wide eyes and said "Becky, IT'S A MIRACLE!!!" areaPre-K Humor Date: 7-27-99I have provided child care for my nephew since he was 6 weeks old. My brother (the child's dad) likes to hunt and has taught his children about hunting since they were very small. I, on the other hand, just enjoy seeing wildlife out in the forest and would prefer that they be left alone to wander free in the woods. My brother and I rib each other all the time about our opposing views. I had just completed a wildlife theme with the kids and I had thought that I had instilled some of my views on my two year old nephew. To my disappointment, I learned that wasn't true. He was helping me open Christmas cards and he looked at one particular one that had Santa with a reindeer. He loudly proclaimed, "There's Santa! He shot a deer!!!!" Daylene My friend likes to read his two young sons fairy tales at night. Having a deep-rooted sense of humor, he often ad-libs parts of the stories for fun. One day his youngest son was sitting in his first grade class as the teacher was reading the story of the Three Little Pigs. She came to the part of the story where the first pig was trying to acquire building materials for his home. She said "...And so the pig went up to the man with a wheelbarrow full of straw and said "Pardon me sir, but might I have some of that straw to build my house with?" Then the teacher asked the class "And what do you think that man said?" and my friend's son raised his hand and said "I know! I know! He said "Jumpin’ Jehosaphats!! A talking pig!'" The teacher was unable to teach for the next 10 minutes.
Name: Date: 5-25-99One day, in my pre-k class, while we were busy working on one of our class projects, we were enjoying each others conversation. James was busy telling us about one of his many adventures. Josey piped up and said, "yah, well you don't know squat about that!" James, being the intuitive that he is, said, "yes, I've seen it and I know it!" Chris, joining the conversation, added, "Well, I've seen squat too, and you definitely don't know it!" What wonderful kids!!!
Date: 5-25-99I am a day care provider in the 3-4 year old room of our day care and my son, Ben (soon to be five) attends class the the 4-5 year old room. His teacher came to me one day to tell me what had happened during game time. The class was playing Duck, Duck, Goose. The child who was "IT" was walking around the circle and Ben excited raised his hand and yelled, "I haven't been picked yet. Goose Me. Goose Me!!!!!!
Date: 5-25-99One day in class I was being my silly self and teasing my students (ages 4-5). When I noticed a Jordan watching me. I looked at her and said "I know I am very silly, huh?" She replied, "Yes Sara, but I still love you".
Date: 5-25-99I am the computer lab supervisor for the elementary school. One of the programs we use for kindergarten is a dot-to-dot alphabet. One day a kindergarten child was studing the puzzle very hard as I noticed this I walked over to see if I could help. She was working on a puzzle that would be a mailbox when she finished. I asked her what was wrong and she said she could not find the minnow. I explained that there was no fish in her puzzle and she said yes there was. I once again tried to explain that there was not a minnow. She told me in no uncertain terms that there was and proceeded to point the the letters saying the abc's when she got to the letter k she proceeded with a l-minnow. I thought I would collapse right there and had to leave her sight. Anyone who has heard a pre-schooler sing the alphabet song will notice how the letters can get slurred when the child reaches the letters m and n.
Date: 5-25-99One of the little girls in my class arrived at preschool with a HUGE black eye, I said "Oh my gosh Kelsey, what happened to your eye?" and she turns to me and replies caually, "Oh, I was playing at McDonalds and a big kid kicked me in the balls." !!!!*LOL*!!!! (she was playing in the ball pit and got kicked).
Date: 5-25-99On my first day teaching at a new preschool, the children were curious to know all about me, they of course wanted to know if I lived with my mother and father, and why I didn't. I told them that I grew up and got married and live in my own house now. So they asked me why I got married. I thought that was a very good question so at group time I asked the children, "Why do you think people get married?" and wrote down their responses.....here are a few "So they have someone to talk to when they drive in their cars" "Because they like to kiss" "Because the man is a prince" "Because they love each other" "Because they want to have children" "So they have someone to cook their dinner" "So they can have their own room" and my personal favorite~ "I don't know why people get married, but MY mom married my dad because he says yes to EVERYTHING!"
Date: 5-25-99I am not sure what we were talking about, but my little Abbey, came up and said Ms. Shelby, my mommy's, mommy has a first name too! I said she does, what is it? Abbey said it's Grandma!! I just love it.
Date: 5-25-99I got a job, fresh out of college, teaching Prekindergarten at the age of 22. I was still living at home and would from time to time make references about going home to see my mommy. One day, a little boy looked up at me with a puzzled look on his face and said, "Old as you is, you got a momma." smile!!!
Date: 5-25-99Last year I had a little boy named Steven in my class. White blond hair, big blue eyes and very expressive. We were having news time in circle one day when Steven declared his undying love for a little girl named Ashley and stated he was going to marry her when he got big. Well, one of the other children remembered he said her was going to marry someone else (not from out class) on an other occasion and called him on it. He started to stammer and stutter and said I I I mean I'm going to marry her and just have Ashley for my girlfriend. My parent helper and I started to laugh and I said "oh honey, that's every man's dream." We thought it was cute.
Date: 5-25-99While talking about St. Patrick and his use of shamrocks to explain the trinity we had a wonderful laugh. I had each of the children glue a "pedal" on their shamrock. One each for Father, Son and Holy Ghost. While helping another child, one of my independent children exclaimed, "Mrs. Sheryl! I did it. See I have--Father, Son and FLOYD THE GHOST." What a new twist to explaining the trinity. Date: 5-25-99I teach older 3's and younger 4's in a local preschool. One day we were talking about the letter W. I was telling the about the different items that begin with the letter W. I named water, wave, walrus, wink, wall, and many others. As i was saying the names w would stress the sound that W makes several times before i would say the word. Well one of the children caught on very quickly. He told me "Mrs. Stephanie my mom shops at w-w-w-Wal-Mart.....My neighbor teacher heard it and we both cracked up and i told Micah that he was so VERY right!!!
Date: 5-25-99My older twos and threes class and I were taking a walk and we saw a man working in his yard. One of my students said Hey Mister Hey Mister. Finally he turned around and said yes. My student yells Do you sleep NAKED?!?!?! I quickly took my class and walked away. You could tell the man was embarrassed.
Date: 5-25-99We have a very witty and smart 4 year old boy at our school. One day he and a friend were busy building a bus with the blocks and wanted chairs for the seats. Since there were only two of them I told them they may each have one chair. Although I said it as "you may each have a chair". The little boy went to take another chair and I said, " You may have a chair...a means 1", and he responded by asking how many is b? :-)
Date: 5-25-99At the beginning of my first year teaching kindergarten we were all in the lunchroom in line and the kids were all over the place. Well I said boys and girls is this the way you are supposed to stand in line? Please show me what a "line" looks like (keep in mind I have southern accent) one of my little girls gets down on all fours and roars very loudly. I looked at here and said Emily what are you doing? She replied I'm showing you what a "lion" looks like.
Date: 5-25-99This took place when the Toy Story toys, Buzz Light-year & Woody were quite popular: I had just walked into my classroom of 3's when a little boy sitting by himself in a center shouted out, "Look, Janet, i have a BIG WOODY today"!! now how do you respond to that one:) LOL!
Date: 5-25-99When I line up my three-year-olds, I always try to suggest something (quiet) to be when we walk to the playground or wherever. Some days I say, "Let's be mice. We have to be very quiet so we don't wake the cat." Several years ago I had a little boy who was fascinated with the movie, "Robo-Cop". Every suggestion I made was met with, "Let's be robo-mice (or robo-kitties or robo-fish). One day near Easter, I said , "Let's be bunnies hopping in the meadow" and was answered with the inevitable "Let's be robo-bunnies!" At that time, I thought Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in that movie, and I suddenly had a very clear vision of him in a pink bunny suit. I laughed so hard I had to turn my class over to an assistant. To this day, whenever I think of Arnold Schwarzenegger, I see him in a pink bunny suit, hopping along in a line of three-year- |
