Student Stories

It's that time again!  Posts from the life of your favorite fifth grade teacher.  I wish you could experience what I do on a daily basis...my kids are so much  fun.

1. One of my students found out that I am moving back to Michigan this summer.  Outraged, she demanded to know why.  I told her that my husband is going to work there, so I need to follow him.  She advised that my best course of action would be to get a "divorcement" from him.  As soon as she said that, another student stood up and said, "No!  You would try to separate a good woman from her man!?  It can't be done!"  Ha ha!  I'm glad someone still believes in marriage.

2. I think Rex would really like one of my students.  They had to write an essay about why America is great.  This kid started off his essay by saying, "America is great because we have freedoms and we can own guns."  He ended his essay, "That's why America is the greatest...for now."  He's very anti-Obama and thinks that Obama is going to ruin America.  It came through in his essay.  Ha ha.

3. We are learning geometry, and I am trying to teach my students the difference between an acute angle and an obtuse angle.  One student got them mixed up, though, and called the angle an "Abuse Angle."  Poor little abused angle.

4. I was teaching my students a lesson about various quadrilaterals.  We were discussing how parallelograms are always quadrilaterals, but quadrilaterals are not always parallelograms.  We also discussed how squares are always rectangles, but rectangles are not always squares.  One of my students made the connection that a square is also a rectangle, rhombus, parallelogram, AND a quadrilateral.  He said, "Wow...so a square is pretty much the ULTIMATE quadrilateral."  Someone else chipped in with "Yeah, like the Chuck Norris quadrilateral!"  Yep, pretty much.  Glad they got the picture.

5. One of my students was doing a report on Italy.  They meant to say that one of their main income producers is tourism, but instead they said, "Italy makes a lot of their money through terrorism."  LOL.

I can't believe that the school year is over in only a few weeks.  This year has absolutely flown by, and I'm really going to miss my kiddos.  :-(