Monday, March 20, 2006
What in the world?!
I have no words.
hat tip: Shrine of the Holy Whapping
On a fun note: Ice Age 2 comes out next week! I'm celebrating by showing my class Ice Age (in Spanish, of course) for the next two classes. :) They were laughing so hard today, and one student even exclaimed, "It is so much funnier in Spanish!"
Haha. :)
And conversation of the day, between me and one of my 8-year olds:
Me: Tomas, what would you like to be when you grow up?
Tomas: Um, a volcanologist.
Me: Ok, sweet. Can you give me three words that either describe or are used by volcanologists?
Tomas: Sure. Ummm...volcanoes...
Me: Yeah...
Tomas: And...tests...
Me: Yeah...
Tomas: And hyaloclastic flow. I don't know how to spell it, though.
Me: ::blank stare, followed by straightening up and acting like I totally know all about hyaloclastic flow:: Great word! ::pretend to write it on the board, knowing he won't know the difference::
Other kids: What the heck is that?
Me: Oh, ask Tomas.
Tomas then procedes with an explanation of hyaloclastic flow...to the other 8 year olds.
Oh dear.
It reminds me of the time I was sitting with one of my kindergarteners and he asked me if I knew what the dinosaur with the longest name is called.
I said no, and he informed me that it is the Pachycephalosaurus.
He was 5.
And to round all this out, I feel we are in need of a stupid quote:
Found on a Chinese alarm clock instruction manual:
"Due to the perfection of the alarming mechanism, you are never awake when you are asleep."
Ahhh, yes. Brilliant. ;)
I have no words.
hat tip: Shrine of the Holy Whapping
On a fun note: Ice Age 2 comes out next week! I'm celebrating by showing my class Ice Age (in Spanish, of course) for the next two classes. :) They were laughing so hard today, and one student even exclaimed, "It is so much funnier in Spanish!"
Haha. :)
And conversation of the day, between me and one of my 8-year olds:
Me: Tomas, what would you like to be when you grow up?
Tomas: Um, a volcanologist.
Me: Ok, sweet. Can you give me three words that either describe or are used by volcanologists?
Tomas: Sure. Ummm...volcanoes...
Me: Yeah...
Tomas: And...tests...
Me: Yeah...
Tomas: And hyaloclastic flow. I don't know how to spell it, though.
Me: ::blank stare, followed by straightening up and acting like I totally know all about hyaloclastic flow:: Great word! ::pretend to write it on the board, knowing he won't know the difference::
Other kids: What the heck is that?
Me: Oh, ask Tomas.
Tomas then procedes with an explanation of hyaloclastic flow...to the other 8 year olds.
Oh dear.
It reminds me of the time I was sitting with one of my kindergarteners and he asked me if I knew what the dinosaur with the longest name is called.
I said no, and he informed me that it is the Pachycephalosaurus.
He was 5.
And to round all this out, I feel we are in need of a stupid quote:
Found on a Chinese alarm clock instruction manual:
"Due to the perfection of the alarming mechanism, you are never awake when you are asleep."
Ahhh, yes. Brilliant. ;)
