Overheard in First Grade

Overheard at the first grade lunch table:
J: "There's two kinds of 'hot,' you know. There's hot like (waves hands in front of face signaling hot temperature), and there's hot like (puts one hand on hip, sways back and forth, rubs chest with other hand, and rolls eyes upward)."
(Pause)
E: "Actually, there are three kinds of hot. There's hot like (waves hands in front of face signaling hot temperature), and there's hot like (puts one hand on hip, holds other out, and sashays back and forth), and there's hot like (sticks tongue out and waves hand in front of it, signaling spicy food)."
Miss Reed thinks: "Oh dear... What am I going to do with these girls?!"

Overheard during first grade writing workshop:
J: "My mom's forty years old."
S: "My mom's, like, forty-four years old. And her hair is starting to turn brown."
J: "Oh no! Don't tell me that! I don't want to hear that!"
S: "Yep; it's true."

Conversation during lunch:
O: "MIss Reed, this french fry looks weird."
Miss Reed: "Yeah, it does. But that's ok, because everything looks weird when it gets to your stomach."
(Pause)
O: "Did you know there's this long tube thing inside of you?"
Miss Reed: "It's your intestine."
O: "Yeah. And the food goes in (rubs hand over stomach, mimicking path of food through digestion process) and then... it goes to your penis.
Miss Reed: "Oh. Right." (Yikes!?!)

At recess:
J: "Miss Reed... I love you."

:-)