Laugh out loud moments

[MsCoffeeLover]

Today my 7th graders and I were discussing the immune system. We learned all these wonderful things and how the white blood cells are basically our own little internal army that goes after foreign substances.

We then get to the special white blood cells called "Killer T Cells" that attack viruses and the like.

One kid actually said out loud today, "Wow! They ain't playin' around!" He was dead serious about it too. At least I knew I had one kid paying attention.

I tried to stifle a laugh, but I couldn't and gave in. I will never be able to look at a white blood cell without hearing that kids voice.

Anyone else care to share laugh out loud moments? I may not have given my moment justice, but the serious tone and the accent of the kids voice just had me.

[Aziz]

There's a group of students in my class that would speak a foreign language when they didn't want me to understand what they were saying. So one day a student said something alone the lines of "he's so hot!" pointing to another classmate, and I replied in the language: "I hope he's not, you know, a source of distraction or anything." I said it in a mildly sarcastic tone that suggested I would never suspect a student of finding another classmate's body more interesting than my lesson. The whole class burst out laughing. I don't know if it's as funny here; it might have been one of those moments where you had to be there.

Well, now, my students always try to make sure I don't speak the language they're talking about me in.

-Aziz

[Bananas]

:DI ran a community-based apartment upon graduation from college for eleven developmentally disabled adults. One was a man more with behavioral concerns. I had every weekend off, and hubby covered every other weekend, and another woman worked the other weekends.

This man wrote Swedish profanity all over his shower while the woman was on duty. He was busted as she was fluent in Swedish.

I came back to work and he mumbled to himself, "Who'd of thought she could read Swedish."

[MsCoffeeLover]

These mitosis comic books are cracking me up.

While we were making the first slide and example, we had our vocabulary, definition, illustration, and step number. All we needed was our funny caption.

Then one student said it, "It's not you, it's me." That set the tone for the rest of the comic book. Everyone knew it was the perfect break up line.

Then you hear a student actually quote Seinfeld, "It's not you, its me! I wrote that line. If it is anyone, it is me!" In famous George Castanza language.

It made my day.

[irish223]

On Friday, my kdg students were writing a response to a story. The prompt was:

"When it's time to get ready for bed, I...."

One of my little ELLs wrote:

"brsh my tit."

Hopefully you know what he meant!

[jsfowler]

One of the funniest stories ever happened to me during my student teaching. I was with the language arts teacher and we were working on personal narratives. One of the students wanted to talk about their trip to Virginia. This was a lower student who could not spell and, like most kids, clicked on the first word that came up on spellcheck - vagina. Every time he meant to say Virginia, it said vagina. He talked about how much he loved (Virginia), how he went swimming in (Virginia)...you get the point! It was TMTH. All you American Idol fans know what that means!

[sgaestel]

One of the funniest stories ever happened to me during my student teaching. I was with the language arts teacher and we were working on personal narratives. One of the students wanted to talk about their trip to Virginia. This was a lower student who could not spell and, like most kids, clicked on the first word that came up on spellcheck - vagina. Every time he meant to say Virginia, it said vagina. He talked about how much he loved (Virginia), how he went swimming in (Virginia)...you get the point! It was TMTH. All you American Idol fans know what that means!

THAT is a great story! I laughed out loud!
I am also an AMerican Idol freak... so I got you on the TMTH!:D

[hot_teacher]

My students had stressful weeks over the HSPA and one day one of my students made a noise in class, another made the noise back, I'd usually not encourage this behavior but since the week was so stressful for all of us I decided to join in. Now, whenever we're learning a tough lesson and students feel stressed out they make this noise to break-up the lesson. It's really worked well because they don't abuse it, they use it to let me know they need me to slow down or back up.

[wtrafton]

We have one student in our study hall that started the year quite well. As the year has progressed he has come more and more out of his shell. Today we told him he needed to stop talking constantly. No more random comments, we even joked how about a lunch detention for each word. What would it take????
So finally we said look, lock it up and lose the key. He said ok. He was quiet for about 5 minutes and then said "it's not working---I found the key" We all laughed so hard. So much for keeping things quiet.

[ChocolateNewOrleans]

boy oh boy, I have a ton of LOL moments. Some appropriate, some not.

Sometimes, the inappropriate ones are the ones you laugh the hardest at (after the fact) ;)

We were discussing the Great Depression, I led with the question, "Does anybody know what the Great Depression was?" A kid answered "Wasn't that a big hurricane a long time ago?"

Before I could say anything, another kid said "Layton, you dummy, that's a TROPICAL DEPRESSION"

I understand there's no such thing as a dumb question in class (or statement in this case) but I'm only human, I laughed just as hard at the statement, and the second kid's quick witted reply until tears were coming out of our eyes.

I once had a girl in my SPED class, 16 y.o. 8th grade girl. 6'3" 450 lbs. black girl. She was VERY LOUD when she got worked up and could get worked up very easily and destroy the education of any class (the reason I had her in mine)

Anyways, at the end of the year, the kids had a radio and was listening to the local pop music station and some stupid booty dancing song the kids liked came on. Big Vicky started booty dancing (think of rap video girl dancing, only with a 450 lbs girl doing it) and proceeded to start dancing up on the team teacher in class. He was about 5'10, 150 lbs. She backed him up against the chalk board and started grinding her butt up on him, he's crying out for me to help, but I couldn't, I was rolling on the ground laughing.

[MsCoffeeLover]

Kids to a lot of funny things, but I have to tell y'all how funny my kids were when they were not trying to be.

Three of my boys in my last period class were telling me how hard my class was. These three boys are my favorite boys, so I was crushed for like a second. The rest of the class argued on my behalf telling these boys that my class was easy and they were just lazy.

As a science teacher, you try to have as many hands on things as possible, and these boys are true 7th grade boys and are hands on learners. They are the reason I have as many hands on things now, but it can't be done everyday, you know...in a trailer with thirty kids and no lab.

I have taught all of the content areas before and look at the date and content scores. All teacher are supposed to include reading and writing across the curriculum, and I actually do that.

So, these three boys were telling me how hard my class was, right? One of them is in resource and is telling me how the science textbook is on a higher level. That is correct. Then he proceeds to argue with me how his scores are higher than his brother's who is in high school. Yes! That was his argument! Two assessment tests ago, he improved in reading 27 points: I don't know if he made the effort the first go round or not, but he is actively trying to get out of resource. This next go round, he still improved by six points (which is a lot of points). The other two boys improved in reading and writing by ten and seventeen points respectively.

I have taught language arts before, so I always offer incentive s to kids for reading improvements because not all students take the science assessment tests and we need to reinforce reading and writing across the curriculum.

Basically, my class is hard because they actually have to think, and there only argument was their increased scores.

We all had a good laugh, but I was laughing the loudest, and told them to get back to work.

[fcosgriff]

That's funny! I guess it shouldn't really surprise me, children are always thinking. I'm not in the classroom yet, just finishing up my program. But, I've seen examples of this in students when in field experiences, especially at the middle school age. Also, I have a 7th grader and 11th grader (boys) of my own, and they are pretty creative with their thinking to work things their way!! Just glad to see them using their brains.

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[Boxcar]

That is hilarious!

Good jub on teaching your kids well!

[ChocolateNewOrleans]

a girl on my track team/6th period class came in on Friday with marker all over her face like she lost a battle with a sharpie. She asked if she could go into the bathroom and clean it all off. I said, sure, but then quietly told another girl in the front row to "watch this". I then told my track girl "and while you're in there washing the sharpie off your face, see what you can do about the ugly"

The class laughed, but unphased, Trackgirl snaps back "you're just jealous that I can benchpress more than you" (which is the running joke among all the athletes at school since I benchpress so little and even the girls bench more)

Man, all the laughter the class was directing towards her, got redirected back on me. I'm a good sport about it, especially since I started it. But she got me good (the little SmartA$$ ;) )

[MsCoffeeLover]

a girl on my track team/6th period class came in on Friday with marker all over her face like she lost a battle with a sharpie. She asked if she could go into the bathroom and clean it all off. I said, sure, but then quietly told another girl in the front row to "watch this". I then told my track girl "and while you're in there washing the sharpie off your face, see what you can do about the ugly"


Am I the only one upset by this comment? There is a time and a place to joke around, but the content is entirely different. Physical characteristics should not be joke about.

[jsfowler]

Do as I do...ignore!

[Miss T]

see what you can do about the ugly

I was rather struck by this as well. I believe that there are certain things that can be joked around about with students.:( The bench press is a good example. My kids tease me because I'm only 5'1'' and they're all taller. I would never pick on a kid for a physical description or something of that matter. Teenagers and pre-teens are so impressionable and worry constantly about their appearance and things like that 24/7. Personally, if one of my teachers, even one of my professors in college, had said that to me, it would have scarred me for awhile, especially if it was someone I was comfortable with like a coach. One of my teachers in high school joked around with girls like that and a lot of them cried afterwards as a result. I think that that kind of "joking" is totally inappropriate.

[MissTeach]

You are right Miss T. That kind of 'joking' isn't joking. That is rude and inappropriate! Middle school students have enough problems with their self esteem without teachers adding to their problems.

[wtrafton]

I am struggling for how to say this, which actually kind of proves the point I am trying to make.

It can be very hard to explain a situation for someone to understand if they weren't there when it happened. Sometimes it's hard enough to see all sides of things even when you are.

How people communicate can vary greatly. I say things to some people that I would never dream of saying to others.

I guess I'm just saying that I hope that the reaction was pretty much what was expected and that it wasn't intended to be hurtful .

I try to be optmistic:rolleyes:

[wig]

I believe he is banned.

[TookieWilliam]

sounded like a student that he had that sort of relationship with. It makes it hard to explain though as "I was joking" never really plays well on the stand when being cross-examined. Besides, it looks as if she fired back pretty effectively

I've joked with kids like that before, but only certain kids joke like that.

[kjem]

I'll lighten the tone of this thread back up with my favorite laugh-out-loud fifth grade moment.

We were studying Christmas around the world, and all the students were quietly and intently reading about their countries. One my dear ones, who was studying Mexico, looked up suddenly and announced 'In Mexico, they have donkeys instead of reindeer! That's crazy!' Another student looked at him, puzzled, and said 'What's so crazy about that?'. Tommy answered in a bewildered voice, 'Duh, donkeys can't fly!'.

[SiobhanMarie]

Oh, haha thats wonderful!

[apple4me]

Several years ago I was teaching 6th grade reading. A female student was habitually falling asleep in my class, so it was no surprise for me to look over and see her sleeping on this particular morning. I called her name to wake her. I must have startled her because she jolted up and passed gas verrrrry loudly. My assistant and I quickly walked to the door to conceal our laughter! One of the funniest moments.

[SiobhanMarie]

Wow; how embarressing for that child, however I can see the funny side :)

[CA_teacher]

I'm student teaching in a second grade and we've been studying meal worms for about a month. They recently started turning into beetles.

On Monday, I was sitting with one of my kids when he looked in his meal worm container and said, "Hey, one of mine turned into a beetle! I don't know if it's Speedy or Rick Dangerous."

He was very serious and perplexed. I'm still laughing as I write this :).

[Boxcar]

Awww... That is hilarious!

[CA_teacher]

I usually wear my hair up, but I wore it down one day this week. One of my kids said, "What happened to your 'fro?!"

I felt so stylish. :p

[littlmare]

This is along with JSFowler's story on page one about Virginia...I was teaching an LD Life Science class (7/8 grade). 6 students...5 boys, one girl... one of the boys was reading out loud and should have been saying "organism"...HE WASN'T!!!!!! (you can figure it out) and he said it over and over and over. If that wasn't funny enough, when I looked at the class, it was obvious the only one who picked up on it besides me was the little fair headed girl in the class. She was laughing so hard that she was beet red. We made eye contact, and I lost it. The 2 of us had tears rolling down our faces, and the reader looks up from the book, and says, "what?" Priceless!

[CA_teacher]

That's fabulous!