Off to a good start this year...

Kid: "Hey I like that blue turkey"

Me: "That's a peacock not a turkey, what animal group does he fit into?"

Kid: "The turkey group"

Me: "That's not one of the groups we learned about"

Student: Ms. X, you should probably get a job

Me: You're right I probably should...

Me: And what was the big party that the pilgrims had called?

Kid1: The Publishing Party

Me: No, that's something our class has. What did the Pilgrims have?

Kid2: A stick party.

Me:....I don't even know what that means. THINK guys you know this!! What was the party they had with the Native Americans called!?!

Kid3: Thankgiving!

Me: Excellent! And what were they thankful for?

Kid2: Thanksgiving CAKE!

Me:.....yup.

(Teaching about adaptations we have just learned what an anteater is and how his long tongue helps him to eat ants from the ground....)

Kid: Does it eat people?

Me:No its fine to you if you are a person, just not if you are an ant. Its an ANTeater.

Kid: (Thinking this over...dead serious) Ms. X if you were dressed as an ant for Halloween and you saw this thing he would try to eat you.

Me:....maybe...