This week I finished my first semester as an educator. Now that the year-end “best of” mania has died down, I’ll make my own list for great interactions with students this semester.
The first three come from vocabulary quizzes. The underlined word is the one they’re supposed to use in a sentence:
Fiction books make teenagers crazy. (The sentence preceding this one was: Twilight is my favorite novel.)
His behavior shows he is a typical Chinese.
In my opinion, losing weight is not right if you aren’t fat.
Me: What can you personally do to help reduce CO2 emissions?
10th grader: I can go to the forest and live in a small house.
Me: What do you do with a toothbrush and toothpaste?
2nd grader: Swim.
Me: What did you have for lunch?
2nd grader: For lunch, I had water, milk and jelly.
Me: What did you have for dinner?
2nd grader: For dinner, I had lunch, fish and meat.
2nd grader: When I catch a cold, I drink some doctor. (Combination of: ‘drink more water’, ‘take some medicine’ and ‘see the doctor’.)
2nd grader: Supercali-fergilicious...fjkdekodfij... cious. (Trying to say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious)
And these are only the quotes I was compelled to write down when they happened.
