little funnies from the little kiddies

so i will spare you the details, but one of my little friends had to change his underwear not once, but twice during naptime today all in about a 15 minute time period. after he went through the 2nd new pair of underwear, the only option left was for him to go commando the rest of the afternoon. 

i wasn’t sure how this was going to go over with him but decided to just go ahead and tell him this was his only choice. his response to “j, you don’t have any more underwear here, you are going to have to wear just your pants for the rest of the day” was this: 

“oh! ok. just like a cowboy!”

WTF. i almost died laughing. try explaining this to a parent in an email. talk about awkward. my job is funny. 

every year, i love the very moment my kids ask me, “ms. s, how old are you?” 

that day was today and it was the perfect little laugh for my monday. 

“ms. s, how old are you?” - 4 year old 

“how old do you think i am?” - me

“i don’t know…4?” - 4 year old

“nope, not quite.” - me

“ummm, 67?” - 4 year old 

this was then followed with: 

“why are you so tall?” - 4 year old

“that’s the way god made me.”- me

“is it because you are a teacher?” - 4 year old

it is these moments and these conversations that make me love every second of my job. i am one very tall and happy teacher :) 

I am so happy to have kids back and my classroom and so lucky to have the sweet little group of 17 three and four year olds that I do. It was so hard to let go of a couple of my kids from last year, but I think I will learn to love this group just as much. So far they are proving to be just as funny in the weird things they come up with to say to me each day. So here goes the first story of the new school year.

On Friday, we are out at recess and one of my 3s that is such a little cuddlebug is sitting next to me. (He sticks close to my side all day and has a smile with dimples that seriously melts your heart.) All the sudden he stands up in front of me and says:

“Ms. S, do you want me to blow on your face?”

“What??” I say.

“Do you want me to blow on your face?”

I have no idea what he is talking about and I’m kind of curious to see what he is going to do, so I say yes. And what does he do? Literally takes the biggest breath he can suck in and blows air on my face. I should have realized that he would do this because kids are so literal but I’ve never had this done to me before. Can’t say I hated it, and it definitely gave me a laugh! :)

kids speech impediments really make me laugh. 

today was the first day of our little “intro to prek” camp, so we got to meet about half of the incoming 3 year olds for next year. they were so cute and little, one full on crying tantrum (lots of fun)…and full of undecipherable speech. 

one little boy immediately fell in love with sophie…or “snophie” as he was calling her. she was so not that into him, probably because she didn’t even know he was talking to her. 

so freaking cute. :) 

back in december (yes, i know..so long ago) we had reindeer day in preschool. we had miniature reindeers for the kids to carry around with them all day, made reindeer food, had ice for the reindeer to play in, etc. the kids had a ball - definitely one of the best days in preschool. 

so as the kids are getting picked up by their parents and nannies, i’m reminding the kids to “tell your mommy what a fun day we had” or “don’t forget to tell daddy about reindeer day!” 

i’m down to the last kid being picked up (you know, the one who’s mom is late everyday) and she finally arrives. i remind A to tell her mom about our day, so bursting with excitement, the little girl says “TODAY WAS REINDEER DAY AND WE ALL GOT TO PLAY WITH OUR OWN REINDEER!!” 

immediately the mom looks over at me, confused and asks, “you had real reindeer in your classroom?!” 

as i’m sure you can imagine, the look on my face when she said this was priceless and i had to very kindly explain that, no we did not have real reindeer in the classroom, that wouldn’t be very safe, etc all the while i’m thinking are you seriously asking me if i have reindeer?! yeah, santa loaned them to me for the day. 

the funny comments don’t always come from the children. oh the joys.

Some kids just know exactly what to say to absolutely melt your heart. Here is part of an email I got from a parent a day after the last day of school: 

“We were reading a book tonight at bed time and G said “I am going to read this book with Miss S when she comes over because Miss S loves reading books more than anything in the world and I don’t think she has this one.”

This little girl is so right, I love reading books more than anything in the world and it is my hope as a teacher to pass this passion onto my students! :) 

so this didn’t happen at school but still funny. 

on our walk back from getting dinner, c and i were walking behind this cute family. mom walking the dog, 3 year old girl on a training wheel bike, dad walking next to the girl. 

girl is pedaling, laughing, having fun. she starts speeding up her pedaling (and by speed up, i mean that she is still going slow enough that dad is walking leisurely next to her) and starts to veer off the sidewalk onto the grass. her bike stops at the edge of the grass and girl begins to cry. no..the bike has not fallen over, she is still sitting straight up on the bike..crying. 

dad’s response? 

“that’s not even sad.” 

it was perfect. absolutely nothing in his voice..just the simple truth. it really wasn’t even sad. she didn’t fall down, didn’t crash, nothing. we laughed the entire walk home. 

this is my new favorite line and i’m positive it will be used daily in preschool. 

out at recess, one little boy finds it very entertaining to run up to other friends or teachers and scream at the top of his lungs right into their ears and then run away laughing hysterically. this is the conversation after my assistant catches him doing this: 

teacher: “b you cannot scream in someone’s ear like that..you could hurt their eardrum.”

little boy (looking at the teacher like she has just said the stupidest thing he has ever heard): “WHAT?! there are NOT drums is your ears!! UGH!” 

little boy runs away laughing at the teacher :) 

one of my little girls went home this week and said to her mom and dad…

“i am ms. s and ms. f’s favorite. its really a shame that they aren’t as fond of the other kids.” 

any teacher that tells you they don’t have favorites is lying. do i have favorites? absolutely. is she one of them? i will keep that to myself. and what four year old uses language like: it’s a shame and fond of?