While I was sitting on hall duty a few afternoons ago, along came two seventh grade girls with a large piece of construction paper each. On top of the construction paper were cut out paper letters a few inches high. They were on a mission down the long hallway to hang up the letters for their art teacher.
As they wandered along, they had one small problem: the paper letters kept flying out of their arms onto the floor as they walked down the hallway. They bent over to pick them up, giggling at me as they passed. “Silly papers keep dropping!” they said.
“I have an idea girls,” I offered. “Instead of trying to balance the letters on top of that paper, why don’t you put one hand on the bottom of your paper as you walk and the other hand on the top of your letters so they don’t fly off?”
They gasped. They told me that I was smart and that was probably why I was a teacher.
Yes. Yes, it is.
Lol, kids today. :)
That’s so adorable!
Often solutions are the most obvious, but when you’re so close to what you’re doing they’re hard to see.
I’m sure those girls appreciated your objective and infinite wisdom :)
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LOL! Cute story
HA! That’s what happens when you can’t stop thinking about boys (or girls, or whatever). No room left in the brain for critical thinking.
:)
Ha, ha! I bet that’s exactly one of the challenges of being a Math teacher.
I love this new theme Caity. It’s simple and super cute :)
Why, yes! Yes that is why you’re a teacher ♥
Hahaha… Yes! That is exactly the reason why you are a teacher! :D
Hehehhe that’s just cute actually.
Haha, that is a really cute story:)
Two days later and still no reply from my group. Looks like it’ll be a report to the tutor soon. :O Thank you though! *hugs* I’m feeling a little better, not so sore, but a little bloated. :P
Aww that’s so cute! Seventh grade, not so young anymore but still freshly out of primary (elementary?) school. It’s nice to teach kids a little something. It really makes me smile when I receive a compliment from a little one. :)
too funny!
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LMAO, adorable.
Lol, love this.
Ha ha ha so cute!
i think kids are getting dumber and dumber every year. for real.
Aw lol that is cute!!!
Haha, kids are so damn great, aren’t they? :D
Hahaha!
I should try this in school! Haha.
LOL – that is so cute!
That’s such a cute story Caity! :)
Love that story! I literally LOLed!
That’s funny! They were so involved in their artistic endeavor they left the otehr part of their brains eisewhere.
Cute!!
xxoo
Hahaha, that’s such a cute story =)
That’s why I love kids, anything impresses them haha!
Awwww. That made me smile =)
OH DEAR LORD I NOW FEAR THE FUTURE!
haha kids are so great. Also I like this theme! =)
I’m a firm believer than an outside eye always has the best perspective.
Haha!
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I'm Caity! I am a New Yorker who married a Kiwi and recently moved across the world to New Zealand. I'm a math teacher who enjoys the outdoors, photography, video games, music, and general geekery.
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