Winter and cold weather
brings out a lot of great moments from my students.
Let's put it this way...
Texans are wimps.
With a capitol “W”.
I am sad to say, that I
too am becoming “wimpified”...
but haven't arrived to my
capitol “W” yet.
Don't worry.
10.
One of my janitor friends
(because it is necessary to survival in public education to have
janitor friends)
came in to my classroom as
I was on my way out, and we had a little chat.
Friend: “Stay warm this
weekend! It's so cold, it makes me sick! Literally- I get sick with
this weather!”
Me: “It's not so bad! My
family is playing in the snow back in Utah!”
Friend: “Oh no... I
couldn't handle that. Doesn't the snow make you sick?”
Me: “No...”
Friend: “Well, can you
believe it... I heard, it's going to be COLD this Christmas!”
Me: “Christmas is
SUPPOSED TO BE COLD!!!!!”
Who are these people?
9.
My Dance Club went to go
see “The Nutcracker” at the Houston Ballet.
They were SOOO excited and
marveled at the beautiful theatre.
Although once the ballet
started.... I lost half of them to a nap.
Baby steps.
I'll get them to like
ballet...
one day.
8.
My two most hated common
questions...
“Mizz- you have
lotion? I'm ashy...”
No.
And if I did- I wouldn't
give you any.
“MEEEEES- What are we
doing today?”
I take time to write it up
on the board everyday... you'd think they could take time to not
annoy me by asking me that question. Steam seriously comes out my
ears when someone asks me.
It shouldn't bother me so
much.
But it does.
7.
“Miss- I can't dance.”
“Why?”
“I was diagnosed with
'Tender Feet Syndrome'”.
“That's not even real.
Go get dressed.”
“But Miss!”
6.
As we prepared to go “The
Nutcracker” I gave a synopsis to some of the girls wanting to know
more information.
“It's about a young girl
who's given a Nutcracker. The Nutcracker comes to life and takes her
on a magical journey.”
“Oh yeah! I heard about
this on the news! It's a true story, right?”
“Nutcrackers coming to
life?.... No sweetie.... and Santa isn't real either.”
5.
“BAH MISS! WHY IS IT SO
COLD?!?!”
“Well... it IS winter,
so let's get over it.”
What did I tell you?
Wimps!
All of them!
4.
One of my students leaves
his stuff everywhere.
Which also means, he's
losing his stuff as well.
One day (of many, but this
particular one) he lost his phone.
“Where'd you last see
it?”
“I don't know...”
“What does it look
like?”
“Ummm it's white...”
“Well come over to my
phone and let's call it to see if it's hiding in the room.”
“Miss... I don't know my
phone number.”
How do these kids ever end
up being able to text each other if no one knows their number?
Confused...
3.
“Miss- it's my New
Year's Resolution to have pink hair.”
And you thought my students were shallow....
2.
As we finished up our tap
unit we recorded our dance and I told students to watch their feet
in the mirror to see if the correct part of their foot was striking
the floor.
“But... I'm confused Ms.
Brame.... what does “washing our teeth” have to do with
tap?”
1.
As students were walking
into class, and I noticed a student with a bandaged wrist.
I pulled her aside to
talk...
“What happened to your
wrist? Is it ok?”
“Oh yeah Miss, it will
be ok. I just sprung it.”
“You what?” (trying to
see if she'd catch her grammatical error)
“I sprung it. I fell off
the trampoline.”
Nope she didn't catch it.
And as I tried to contain my huge guffaw, she proceeded to tell me
her story and continued to use “sprung” multiple times.
Classic.
