---One of my three-year-olds said the greatest thing while we were sitting outside in the freezing cold watching her classmates run from an invisible snake:
"I wish... we had a door right here. ...And, and then we could... open it. And... close it."
---A new take on an old joke:
"Miss Anna, why was 6 afraid of 7?"
"I have no idea! Why?"
"Because 8, 9, 10!"
---I watched this girl spend all of the afternoon picking up large rocks to put in a bucket, and then once the enormous bucket was filled, she ran up to me:
---One of the boys wears a fireman helmet... constantly. As I handed him his snack, this was our exchange:
---I held up an hourglass, and asked them if they knew what it was called. Here are two responses, each repeated multiple times (because, clearly, they were CERTAIN they were correct and I wasn't listening):
---A few random, no-context-needed quotes:
"Miss Anna! We've got a lot a LOT of rocks!"
"Awesome! What are you going to do with them?"
"Oh... they're FISH!"
---One of the boys wears a fireman helmet... constantly. As I handed him his snack, this was our exchange:
"Use your spoon, hon."
(mumbled under his breath) "Firemen don't need spoons."
---I held up an hourglass, and asked them if they knew what it was called. Here are two responses, each repeated multiple times (because, clearly, they were CERTAIN they were correct and I wasn't listening):
"A faller!"
"A sandbox!"---Today was their "red" day: wear anything and everything red. In honor of Red Day, their milk at lunch was colored, but they said it came out more pink than red. I said:
"That's good, I think red milk would be scary."
"YEAH! Because it could be blood from dinosaurs."
---One of my little ones, a favorite, got a bloody nose today just as I was walking in. He comes up to me and says:
"Miss Anna, look!"
"Oh no!"
"Yeah, I don't know where it came from... maybe a lion."
---Their "You Know What" off-hand comments are absolutely endearing. And usually, I don't know what.
"You know what? Spiders can walk... (long pause) and grasshoppers can hop hop hop like bunnies!"
---At least she's honest...
"I have so many toys... All of my friends... and my mommy-friends... and my daddy-friends.... all my friends KEEP BUYING ME PRESENTS!"---After a snowfall, the students analyzed the shape of the snow on a skylight:
"Silly snow!"
"I think it looks like a flat flat flat flat Indian blanket!"
"I think it looks like a cupcake!"---Said by my fave:
"Mason kicked my hand and he made it redder so I can have a hot lava hand!"
"I think I can drink a whole water fountain full of water!"
"Did Jingles the elf visit YOUR house last night, Miss Anna? (I said no...) Hmmmm. Maybe he's too busy trying to learn how to fly."---One of the kids had a football, just carrying it around, so a fellow teacher decided to encourage them to "Throw it like Tebow!" He looked at her, looked at the ball, and said:
"No, a t-ball is different. "
Then a little girl gave her input:
"That's what my daddy says: GO TIM TEBOW!!!"---A girl came up to me and asked if I wanted to hear a "really funny song that her big brother sings":
"ABCDEFG... (uhmm) ABC... ABCEDFG... Barney knows my name. Stick a rocket up his nose, watch him fly away."---One of my girls drew a picture and held it up to me, I say:
"Oh very nice! What is it?"
"It's me and dad."
"What are you doing?"
"Standing there."---Another girl was coloring a picture of Pharaoh (whom they called "the bad king") and I overhear this:
"Look at the bad king's hat! And I'm not even tired!"---That same girl was taking down everyone's phone numbers for play dates, and at the end she read them all off to me. One of them was:
"Eight, nine, ten... HN43."
"I can hop on my finger! I mean... my foot!"
"I have no white cake... just banilla and chocolate."
"We are knights! And we are the strongest people in the world!"
