and it made me laugh. Is this really on TV somewhere?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACi1VO9JP0A
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Are you married?
I was in the middle of working one-on-one with my first graders during math today. One girl waited patiently in line for her turn to talk with me. Then she said, "Miss Reed, are you married?"
I asked, "Why are you talking about that right now? You're supposed to be doing math."
She pointed at her math book, where she was to draw pictures of three things shorter than herself, three things the same size as herself, and three things taller than herself. And she said, "We'll you're taller than us, so we thought you must be married."
"Oh, I see. No, I'm not married. That's why my name is Miss Reed."
And from across the room another boy piped in, "Yeah, and if she got married her last name would change, too."
And another student across the room: "And she'd have kids, too."
By this time another girl had come to the front of the line, and she said, "Everybody has to have two."
Ok... what? So I asked, "What do you mean? Everybody has to have two?"
Get this - "My mom says she wants four grandchildren, so that means my sister and I both have to have two kids each. And my sister doesn't want to have kids when she's an adult, so that means I have to have four! Ugh... I don't wanna think about it." She sighed...
And so I checked her math page, and that was the end of it. First graders! Gotta love 'em! :-)
I asked, "Why are you talking about that right now? You're supposed to be doing math."
She pointed at her math book, where she was to draw pictures of three things shorter than herself, three things the same size as herself, and three things taller than herself. And she said, "We'll you're taller than us, so we thought you must be married."
"Oh, I see. No, I'm not married. That's why my name is Miss Reed."
And from across the room another boy piped in, "Yeah, and if she got married her last name would change, too."
And another student across the room: "And she'd have kids, too."
By this time another girl had come to the front of the line, and she said, "Everybody has to have two."
Ok... what? So I asked, "What do you mean? Everybody has to have two?"
Get this - "My mom says she wants four grandchildren, so that means my sister and I both have to have two kids each. And my sister doesn't want to have kids when she's an adult, so that means I have to have four! Ugh... I don't wanna think about it." She sighed...
And so I checked her math page, and that was the end of it. First graders! Gotta love 'em! :-)
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