Kids Say the Darndest Things

I’m always amazed at the things kids say—the things that pop out of their mouths when they aren’t even trying to be funny. Since I’m at school all day, and therefore around kids all day, I decided to compile a list of things that some of the kids say.

1. One of my second graders started a sentence by saying, “When I was a kid…” (Um, when was that, last week?!)
2. Two older boys walked passed my room, one was talking and the other, presumably, had been listening until he said, “I’m tuned out…” (I almost fell off my chair from laughing so hard when I heard this one—the non-listener was totally deadpan when he said that!)
   
3. The conversation among a few of the second graders as they raced to their Sunday School classroom—Kid A, “I’m going right into the room, since our regular teacher isn’t here!”
   Kid B, “But that’s against the rules!”
   Kid A, “Well, he doesn’t know that we aren’t supposed to!”
   Kid C, in a superior voice, “Well, I’M going to follow the rules and wait outside!” (Seriously, I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried!)
4. One of the second graders to their substitute teacher: “I’m not allowed to have cotton candy!” (Okay, that’s good to know, because I always make cotton candy when I sub…or not…)
5. One of my first graders, upon noticing that her classmate was doing things a little differently than she was, “Whoa, whoa, whoa! It’s out of order! You can’t do it like that!” (It’s nice to know that I can just sit back and relax, since she is apparently keeping an eye on everything!)
6. Teacher: "As we study the animal kingdom this term, there will be several dissections. When we get to the mammals, we will dissect rats."
   Student (completely serious): "Do we have to catch our own?"
   She didn't look fazed in the slightest at the thought of providing her own rat (only in PNG!) and seemed slightly disappointed upon being told that preserved specimens had already been ordered. (This one is courtesy of one of the biology teachers at the secondary campus—welcome to the world of MKs (missionary kids)! I remember when my class did a dissection unit in junior high; many of the girls turned quite green, but I don’t remember any of them actually wanting to do the dissection, much less provide their own specimen!)

   

   Outside one of the classrooms at school; the kids can take
   their shoes off when they are in class. They have to be reminded
   (some more than others!) that they do need to have shoes on
   when they are on the playground or going to a different class.