Funny Comments
Funny comments are taken from The Diary of a First Grade Teacher. I recorded the funny things my first graders said and did for the nine years that I taught First Grade. Boy, did they give me an education!
Pen Pals... What’s That?
Here are rough drafts of two of my first graders’ FIRST EVER LETTERS to pen pals. (Of course, later, I helped them rewrite their letters with appropriate content.)
But for the time being, I have made only two changes for them: I spaced between the words... And I added the punctuation.
der wooevr u r,
if u rit me bk, rit me lik ths cawz I knt red krsv yet.
frm me. I am a st-ran-jer.
Deer pen pal,
i do not hav nutn to sa. i can sa thez. mi nam iz Gena nicole Bounds. thatz it. the en.
frm, you do not no me.
Our Fall Festival
“Class,” I said. “The Parent-Teacher-Association wanted me to remind you about the meeting tonight.
Please ask your parents or guardians to come to school tonight. And bring candy or any baked goods that they have.
If you can donate something, this will help us to have a really nice fall festival.”
Martin said, “Teacher, my daddy said he ain’t bringing nuttin to the fest-i-bull tonight.”
I said, “He isn’t bringing anything.”
“Yes, Ma'am,” he said, nodding.
“That’s okay, Martin,” I said reassuringly. “He can bring you.”
“I know,” he said, very disappointed. “But I ain’t no cake!”
More... Funny Comments
The students’ assignment was to write from 0 to 20. But Stevie had written too large. There was no more room left for him to write.
“Look, teacher,” he said, waving his paper in the air. “Forget it. This paper ain't big enough.”
Weesie piped in. “Come see me, too! See mine?” She had written too big also. She shook her little head in disgust. “This paper ain’t no good... It can’t count to 20!”
Assistants Make Funny Comments, Too
Later on my students learned how to write from 0 to 20 –all on one page.
Problem now was SOME of them were writing the numbers too closely together. They were not spacing between each number. Their work looked like this: 01234567891011121314151617181920
Although I had already demonstrated on the board –several times-- how they should space between each number, it was obvious that I would have to reteach the lesson on how to space.
So I started fresh again. And to help them remember I said, “Look at the board. This is what a dash looks like. First, I’ll make a dash, and then you make a dash on your paper.”
I carried it out, step-by-step. “Let’s count aloud together. We will say the number first… And then the dash.”
(Later, we would write each number with a dash in between each number. Just to help them SEE where the spaces should be.)
“Ready?” I asked. “Zero-dash-one-dash-two-dash-three-dash-four-dash-five…”
Joe Joe yelled, “Ya’ll slow down… I can’t hear that fast!”
Just as we finished counting, my assistant entered the classroom with her hand over her mouth. What was she doing? She was trying to hide her laughter.
She motioned for me to come over.
I was curious. “What is it?”
She tried to compose herself. “I was coming down the hall, headed for our classroom and…
Well, it sounded like you were in here teaching the children to say, 'Dat’s 18, dat’s 19, dat’s 20.'”
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