Coffee Confusion

We've been making things in school. One boy was making an angel from sequin stuff with a polystyrene head. It's head came off in his hand.

"Miss," he cried, "My angel's been decaffinated."

Kids Spell The Funniest Things

Yes, kids spelling often makes us snigger. Here's one that came up recently, in a piece of writing about why Jesus is an inpirational person:

'Chikens worship him'

I think he meant christians! Our RE co-ordinator laughed for hours!!!

Thw Wool Question

Just completed a residential trip to London with 47 children. We took them on a tour of the Houses of Parliament. When we got into the House of Lords the tourguide was talking to the children about the sifgnificance of the Woolsack.
'This is filled with wool,' she said. 'When we have lots of wool what does that mean we have lots of?'
'Sheep,' came a reply.
'Very good, and if we have lots of sheep and therefore lots of wool what does that mean we have lots of?'
(She was looking for 'money' as an answer.)
'Jumpers' came the reply!!!

Sneezes

Coming home from town with my daughter when she sneezed. "Bless you," she said, and then,"Why do you say 'bless you' when you sneeze? Because really its got nothing to do with shoes."

It's not just the kids.

Sometimes its the grown ups who say the silliest things! We sat in the staffroom today talking about a particularly dopey child and one member of staff nodded wisely and said, "Yes, he's not very roadworthy is he." I think she meant streetwise!!! Either that or they've suddenly started issuing kids with MOTs and someone forgot to tell me.

Frustration

OK, no particularly funny comments today but I did get to the point of mildly bash my head against a wall after I'd spent ages explain to a child that he should put a picture of a farmer on his work and then he asked me, "Shall I draw it?" Maybe I'll use better English next time!

Introduction

As a teacher I have often sat around in the staff room talking about the silly comments that children come out with and inevitably someone always says, "We should write them down and make a book." Well here is my contribution to the world, not a book but a blog. I'll start with the comment that sticks out most in my mind at the moment.

At the end of the Spring term we were making books using a hole punch and some string. It was the first time the children had used the hole punch, so I demonstrated and then left them to it. A while later one of the children came to find me. "Miss," he said. "The hole punch has run out." I think he wanted me to go into the cupboard and find some more holes for it!