Batman Returns

A second grader was informed that our reading specialist (who is working in their class) is my aunt. She was a bit incredulous, but took it for what it was. Later that day at after school tutoring she drilled me on whether Mrs. Hatch really is my aunt. I told her she was, but she was still unbelieving - even after further confirmation from a 3rd grade teacher. She backed slowly away and gave me the "I'm watching you" fingers. I just laughed.

Response by a first grader to a question on a worksheet about astronauts: "I not no but I will chiye my best."

One of the most entertaining/frustrating things about my job is when kids just don't pay attention to what they're doing. There are many times when they're supposed to combine words to from a sentence, or fill in the blank in a sentence, and rather than checking to see if the sentences make sense, they just guess and move on. This creates some highly laughable phrases:

I grow a doctor.

They ate toasted soup and milk.

Pam's right he was lost.

I've noticed that in the first grade a lot of things involve large dice...or something similar. I think it's hilarious to watch kids shake dice before they roll them. Mostly because the dice are often too big for the kids to fit their hands around, so rather than the dice rolling freely around inside the hollow of their hands, they stay firmly gripped in their tiny grasp, thus defeating the purpose of the shaking. But being that the kids are only 7, they don't realize that. All they know is that they're supposed to shake the dice before they roll them.