Student Quotes

Disclaimer:  I am completely stealing this idea from Ann Durham.  She has a done a number of these posts, with the most recent being Student Quotes (#5).  They are utter genius and I thought I would share what students down at my end of the school have had to say over the months...

“I don’t get dizzy because my brain is so big it doesn’t giggle around.”
--2nd grade boy.


“I used to be a professional hockey player.”
--2nd grade boy.

“You look very pretty today.”
--1st grade girl to me.


“In the real alphabet it is supposed to be at the end.”
--1st grade boy talking about the zebra picture in the alphabet book.  In Spanish zebra starts with a C.

“Más o menos is so, so as in middle or 50-50.”
--4th grade boy's answer on a quiz in Spanish.  Just in case I didn’t get it the first time.

After asking a 3rd grade class what the yellow meant on the Venezuelan flag, one student answered, “Cheese!”

“Not yesterday, but yesterday, yesterday, yesterday…”
--2nd grade girl talking about her shoes.

“I hope the wind doesn’t blow my dress up.”
--1st grade girl.

“Oh, Ms. Houston you saved me.  I am so glad you said we don’t need our folders today because I forgot mine at home.  I am so relieved.  That is so good.”
--1st grade girl.

“I’m really bored. I need a beer or something.  I mean I’m really thirsty.  I just need a beer.”
--2nd grade boy.


“Come on Ms. Houston.  Go easy on us.  We’re just kids!”
--2nd grade boy.


“Ms. Houston you look younger today.”
--5th grade boy.

“Taking a sip of champagne does crazy things to you.”
--3rd grade boy.


“Ms. Houston, what are you going to be when you grow up?”
--1st grade boy.

“I have a werewolf inside me, spiders too.”
--1st grade boy.

“The tooth fairy doesn’t work on Fridays and Saturdays.  Those are her break days.”
 --2nd grade boy

“I went skydiving.”
--KG boy.


“I have a hot papa (potato) in my pants.”
--3rd grade boy.

“Don’t cry little one.  It’s just a joke.”
--2nd grade girl.


“That only happens to me when I run like 13 miles, but I’ve never done that.”
--3rd grade boy.


“I may be young, but I’m not dumb.”
--2nd grade girl.


“I think my balls burst.”
--2nd grade boy.


“I dare you to smell this.”
--2nd grade boy.


Student:  “Ms. Houston you look really young in that photo. How old where you?”
Me:  “13 años.”
Student:  “And they had color cameras back then?”
Me:  “Ummm, yes.”
A couple weeks later...
Student:  “Ms. Houston you're only 27 years old?”
Me:  “Yes.”
Student:  “Oh, so I get it now why they had color cameras when you were born.  You really aren't that old.”
--4th grade boy.