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Sometime last week one of the three-year-olds I teach came up to me, absolutely proud as punch, and we had the following exchange.  Mr Ca'wexio? Yeah, buddy? I DIDDA POO INNA TOILET! YEAH!? YEH!Just so, so proud of himself. He is completely adorable pretty much all the time.
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Whenever we do Religious Education, my class of five-year-olds always find a way to spend an inordinate amount of time talking about death. Most recently the question of just how you actually get to heaven came up.  When you die, people put you in a you-sized box and then the box is put in a special room and then the special room uses magic and turns you into dust and then you fly to heaven.  No, it's that when you die your bones turn to dust and then you see an elevator that's all made of clouds and you get in it you have to push the special heaven button to go up to heaven.Morbidly adorable little buggers.
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Choco1980 posted:I forgot one from the other day. We were at a burger place, and my son had his wrapper fall off the table. Then he looks at me and gravely murmmured "No, twas pickles that killed the beast." That's absolutely brilliant.
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Plinkey posted:My little sister did the same thing. except it was compounded by not being able to say Ps...there were building a development behind my house. 'LOOK AT ALL THE DUM FUCKS! ANOTHER DUM gently caress!' everyone lost it all the time. I spent the summer working as a play supporter for a party scheme, which was great, lovely kids all of them. One girl's speech though was difficult to understand, and "thank you" regularly sounded like "gently caress you." "Shall I push you on the swing?" "No, gently caress you."
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Aug 30, 2015 22:21
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J: Mr Calexio d'you know whores? Me: ... what? J: WHORES! You know, they're like pigs. Me: I... what do you... D: I think he means boars. J: Yeah, boars! They're like pigs. D'you know 'em? Me: *filled with relief* Yeah, I know about boars. J: Good.
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We were doing a punctuation and grammar assessment last week and this was one of the questions: "Rewrite the sentence below, adding a subordinate clause. Butch and Rover chewed the sofa." Cue the following:  Mr Calexio, in this question... are they people? Or animals? ... How many people do you know who are called Rover? Or are known for chewing sofas? Oh yeeeeeeeeah. Yeah.
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Mar 31, 2018 22:51
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So my class of eleven-year-olds somehow got distracted into conversation about the mechanics of time travel that went on a while. Halfway through, a girl put her hand up, looking thoughtful.  Yes? What if... What if you had a giant foot? What?!Her theory turned out to be that, with a big enough foot, you could literally step back through time. Did have a nice "  Ohhh!" moment of realisation out of them when they grasped the "go back in time and kill your own Grandparent" paradox. They then set about trying to find a solution that would allow them to kill their own Grandparent without starting a parallel timeline.
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Apr 27, 2018 20:54
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Ariong posted:That's a hell of a curriculum. We were initially learning about the Victorians and I got distracted. It actually put us behind on the entire lesson, which wasn't great and I shouldn't really have let it go on.
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I teach in Japan (not just English, but an English-immersive curriculum) and today we were writing letters of thanks to a guest speaker we had, who came to teach us about the different systems of the body, and this is what one of my students managed to come up with: "Dear Dr [name] My name is [full name]. 9 years old. I like to read and draw. Do you like to read and draw? I am concerned about very small substances in my body. The inside of the body is very complicated. It is very complicated and I want to know more." I love it. The combination of her own early stages grasp of English (she only joined our school last year with basically no English) and the bits that are clearly translated from online is just delightful to me.
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My wife is currently 15 weeks pregnant and this thread makes me even more excited for the future. It's all so adorable! I met my colleague's kids recently when I visited their house for the first time and made solid friends with his three year-old daughter (despite receiving many suspicious looks at first) mainly because I read Batgirl stories with her, gave her and her brother copious high fives, and let her paint my nails. She loves Batgirl and Harley Quinn. Did you know there's a boy who is friends with Harley Quinn? He's called Harley Quinn Joker Friend. Being three, she kept calling me Bat. It's close enough to Matt, after all. I was also briefly Nail White Paint Boy while she was doing my nails. It was all completely adorable and she was apparently very angry with me when she woke up the next day to discover I had not - despite her strict instructions - come back to sleep at their house after going out for drinks with her dad. "Where's Bat? Why Bat not come back?" Sorry kiddo! I did accidentally alarm her brother though.  He was crouching and staring at my feet and I gave them a little wiggle and a light "rarr" and he scooted back with a concerned "No tank you! No more peez!"I also once had a first grader at work suddenly grab my hand and escort me to the nurse's office to show her my arm. "Look Ms Yumiko! It's hurting!" He'd suddenly noticed the tattoo on my forearm and thought I must have been injured somehow. 
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So we're learning about the Earth's resources in my grade 5 class - renewable and nonrenewable; capital, human, and natural; etc. One of them asked if animals were renewable or not, so I had them discuss it. They decided an individual animal is nonrenewable but animals as a broad category are. Child A: Because two pigs can make a new pig so it's a renewable natural resource. Child B: But pigs don't kiss. *everyone pauses* Me: What do you mean, B? Child B: Babies are made by kisses. A mommy and daddy kiss and that's how the baby gets inside. *another pause* Me: Well that's... not quite how it works. My wife also works in the same school and she's twenty weeks pregnant. Because she works in a different department on a different floor, my class hadn't seen her for a while (we just came back from dinner break) when she dropped by during a break between classes to ask me something. All the girls kept giving her obvious side-glances until we asked what was wrong and they practically burst with excitement to ask and find out the news. Child B (yep same one) immediately started singing, "Happy Birthday Mrs Calexio baby!". Another girl was so excited that Mrs Calexio was going to have a baby. Then she looked at me.  "Wait... Mr Calexio, you will have a child too?"  "Uh, yes? That's how it- The baby will be mine and Mrs Calexio's.""Hmmm."Calexio has a new favorite as of 01:44 on Sep 17, 2023 |
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:lol We had basic "your body will go through changes etc" sex ed in years 5 and 6 in the UK and then more in depth stuff at several points in high school. I'm teaching in Japan at the moment though at a private school and I have no idea what the public school policy is so I don't know if this level of unawareness is usual or not. Child B's dad is a doctor as well!
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Platystemon posted:Powerful posting energy from this kid. It was an incredible own, I've got to admit. A devastating amount of scepticism packed into one noise. sweeperbravo posted:my 2yo asked for raisins, so i asked him to bring them to me so i could open them. he described that they were out of his reach by saying "no can hold it in my hands" Adorable!
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So, at my school we have direct email contact with parents and kids, who all have a school email address. It sounded like a nightmare when I started, and I am sure that if I didn't have a lovely class it would be. But I'm lucky enough to have a wonderful bunch of kids. On Friday, one of my colleagues, Ms Yasmin, was feeling a bit rough (cold season, hooray) and was wearing a face mask when she usually doesn't. On Saturday, she received an email from one of my girls. My girl had looked up Ms Yasmin in the email directory and just sent an email saying that she had noticed Ms Yasmin looked a bit sick on Friday and hoped she was feeling better. She also said that whenever she passes Ms Yasmin's class it always looks like the children are having fun so please take a rest and feel better soon so they can have more fun. I don't even think this girl has much to do with Ms Yasmin! She just noticed she was feeling unwell and thought to send her a kind email. My kids are the best.
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So I was talking to one of my kids today while waiting for the music teacher to appear. We were talking about Studio Ghibli films and which is better: Princess Mononoke or Spirited Away? Me: In Mononoke there's some pretty violent fights! I was surprised! Her: You know, Mr Calexio? Me: Yeah? Her: I want to - just one time - kill a person. Just one time! Me:  Her: But just one time! Me: Why?! Her: I want to know that feeling.
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Jade Rider posted:My brother's 4-year-old daughter doing a "grownup impression": I made it deep into my 30s without regularly drinking coffee but now that I have my own baby, this impression is very accurate. Speaking of my baby, my grade 5 students got to meet him recently, on our last day together before they graduated elementary school. They were very good about it: all masked up, kept their distance, were calm and quiet for him. They absolutely adored him and kept saying how cute he was, it was very heartwarming for me. But they did find a way to (unintentionally) stick the elbow in. Towards the end of his short visit, as we were saying goodbye to him and Mrs Calexio, he was getting hungry and suddenly frowned very hard. Their immediate response? "Oh it's Mr Calexio! Baby Mr Calexio! It's Mr Calexio baby!" Thanks kids!
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: I drink coffee EVERY DAY, and fall asleep on the couch, and rock my baby to sleep!
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Cephalopod girl rules. A few stories from recently. I promise the following conversation has not been edited in any way at all. First Grade Girl: Mr C, why do you have tattoo? Me: Well, I wanted to get one so I got one! FGG: I don't want tattoo. Me: That's okay, nobody's gonna make you get one. FGG: My brother's a jedi. Me: Sorry, what? FGG: My brother's a jedi. *skips away* In a different vein of poo poo kids say, I teach an inquiry-based curriculum that includes a long-term, independent project at the end of grade 5 (my class) where the kids have to decide their own investigation topics that are based on global issues, for which they craft and pursue a detailed inquiry cycle with multiple lines of inquiry, etc. Topics we have had in the last two years: endangered animals, protecting stray cats, deforestation, game addiction, right to an education, Paralympic sports, digital vs paper comics. Topics my current class are interested in: medical stigma; the global HIV/AIDS crisis; modern slavery; war and global conflict. We've barely started and already I've had to have a lot of careful conversations about how to conduct child-safe investigations into these topics, or even if it is possible to do so in some cases. Still, I'm thrilled at how unique their interests and curiosities are this year.
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