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Paper letters.

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.

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  1. Kate April 9, 2010

    Lol, kids today. :)

  2. Kylie April 9, 2010

    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 :)

  3. Lynn April 9, 2010

    Stopping by from SITS!
    LOL! Cute story

  4. 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.

    :)

  5. Alexandra April 9, 2010

    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 :)

  6. Miranda April 10, 2010

    Why, yes! Yes that is why you’re a teacher ♥

  7. Kathleen April 10, 2010

    Hahaha… Yes! That is exactly the reason why you are a teacher! :D

  8. Charles Ravndal April 10, 2010

    Hehehhe that’s just cute actually.

  9. Cecilie April 10, 2010

    Haha, that is a really cute story:)

  10. Georgina April 10, 2010

    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. :)

  11. Sonya April 10, 2010

    too funny!

    Happy SITS Saturday sharefest!

  12. Courtney April 10, 2010

    LMAO, adorable.

  13. Krysten April 10, 2010

    Lol, love this.

  14. Damita April 10, 2010

    Ha ha ha so cute!

  15. Jeni April 10, 2010

    i think kids are getting dumber and dumber every year. for real.

  16. Shellie April 10, 2010

    Aw lol that is cute!!!

  17. Latrina April 10, 2010

    Haha, kids are so damn great, aren’t they? :D

  18. Kimeh April 11, 2010

    Hahaha!
    I should try this in school! Haha.

  19. Holly April 11, 2010

    LOL – that is so cute!

  20. That’s such a cute story Caity! :)

  21. Manda April 11, 2010

    Love that story! I literally LOLed!

  22. Janne Funster April 11, 2010

    That’s funny! They were so involved in their artistic endeavor they left the otehr part of their brains eisewhere.

    Cute!!

    xxoo

  23. Michelle April 11, 2010

    Hahaha, that’s such a cute story =)

  24. Naco April 11, 2010

    That’s why I love kids, anything impresses them haha!

  25. Mary April 11, 2010

    Awwww. That made me smile =)

  26. Lisa April 12, 2010

    OH DEAR LORD I NOW FEAR THE FUTURE!

  27. Mikaela April 12, 2010

    haha kids are so great. Also I like this theme! =)

  28. Cori April 13, 2010

    I’m a firm believer than an outside eye always has the best perspective.

  29. cole April 13, 2010

    Haha!

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