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Friday, April 3, 2009

How to Pass the Class with Gas

I work as an aide in a second grade classroom where the teacher once asked for examples of words with the "short i" sound and one of the kids raised his hand and said, "Tit". I always felt he deserved partial credit.

So it shouldn't have been any surprise when I was grading papers yesterday and more than a few of them took the word "start" and rhymed it with "fart". For that, they each earned a big, red happy face.

Some days, I really love my job.

Labels: Aiding the Teacher, Kids

# posted by Momo Fali : 7:16 AM

Comments:

Second grade, eh? My husband would have written the same thing.

# posted by

Kathy at The Junk Drawer : April 3, 2009 at 8:25 AM

Would they have got extra smilies if they had also used shart?

# posted by

Ian Newbold : April 3, 2009 at 8:42 AM

Ah, the innocence of youth. Or maybe NOT so innocent... But you know, you start rhyming and working your way down the alphabet, art, bart, cart, dart, fart...

# posted by

Ann in NJ : April 3, 2009 at 9:07 AM

THANK YOU for sharing this.

I spent yesterday afternoon hanging out with my nephew. He's 8 and in the 2nd grade.

Our topics of discussion included how drinking juice gives him the farts, the best knuckle cracking methods and how to sneak the food you don't want to eat off of your plate and onto your brother's.

I LOVE THAT KID!!

# posted by

Unknown : April 3, 2009 at 10:25 AM

Awesome. And good thing you weren't looking for words that rhyme with "truck".

# posted by

Melisa Wells : April 3, 2009 at 11:24 AM

"red face" -- perfect.

# posted by

Tom : April 3, 2009 at 12:44 PM

My 4 and 6yo love to rhyme. The other day, my 6yo said to me,

"Mommy! Ella was rhyming and said the bad pee-pee word!"

"No I didn't!"

"Yes you did, Ella! You said the bad pee-pee word, but you just put and 'E' sound at the end of it!"

I had to think hard about this one. Usually, Ella says the 'bad butt word'. This time, she said, "Dicky".

How obvious is that I have an inappropriate 18yo boy in my house?

# posted by

Unknown : April 3, 2009 at 12:51 PM

Funny. And SPD beat me to the Shart comment.

# posted by

James (SeattleDad) : April 3, 2009 at 3:20 PM

Well thank God they weren't rhyming with words like schmoobs!

# posted by

Blah Blah Blah : April 3, 2009 at 4:54 PM

Oh, and I forgot to tell you -- funny title!

# posted by

Junk Drawer Kathy : April 3, 2009 at 5:52 PM

I hate the word fart! My kids will say that someone "let one".

Funny that words like fart and tit show up in a 2nd grade class.

# posted by

dadshouse : April 3, 2009 at 8:37 PM

Haha, funny indeed. I like fart but Tit is surprising LOL.

# posted by

HalfCrazy : April 3, 2009 at 9:42 PM

Just don't ask them to rhyme with 'bunt'

# posted by

Marinka : April 3, 2009 at 10:08 PM

I could never teach kids that young. Or, I would be asked not to teach kids that young.

# posted by

Captain Dumbass : April 3, 2009 at 10:19 PM

A red happy face for fart...job well done:)

# posted by

Cynthia : April 3, 2009 at 10:28 PM

Sometimes I really miss those little writing assignments.

# posted by

Hockeyman : April 3, 2009 at 10:33 PM

That's always great. Especially when it's not your kid.

# posted by

WeaselMomma : April 4, 2009 at 12:12 PM

You are now officially the 'Cool Teacher Aide.'

# posted by

Tara R. : April 4, 2009 at 3:10 PM

Good thing they weren't rhyming with "tit!"

# posted by

mrsmouthy : April 4, 2009 at 4:16 PM

Awwwwwww

# posted by

meleah rebeccah : April 4, 2009 at 8:15 PM

That's awesome. Ah,the perks of your job :)

# posted by

Mrs4444 : April 5, 2009 at 1:43 AM

Why did the first kid not get full credit?

# posted by

Ashley : April 5, 2009 at 10:30 AM

hahahahaha...still chuckling...

# posted by

Dapoppins : April 5, 2009 at 4:07 PM

My little one would be right there getting a big red face then.. :)

# posted by

Kim : April 5, 2009 at 8:29 PM

god, i love kids.

# posted by

the planet of janet : April 5, 2009 at 8:32 PM

I am confused :-)

# posted by

Speedcat Hollydale : April 5, 2009 at 11:14 PM

I cracked up the other day when a neurosurgeon was making morning rounds. He asked the patient is they'd been passing gas and the patient said "What" and the neuro doc said "HAVE YOU BEEN FARTING??" Bwah ahaahaaa!!

# posted by

Putting the FUN in DysFUNctional : April 6, 2009 at 2:27 AM

I wish you could've been my teacher when I was in school.

# posted by

musingwoman : April 6, 2009 at 6:38 AM

I have no clue how I've missed all your posts recently.

I love kids. I love kids with a sense of humor.

# posted by

Mama Dawg : April 9, 2009 at 5:05 PM

Lol, too funny :)

# posted by

Jaina : April 21, 2009 at 8:07 PM

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