Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Kindergartners

I subbed in a kindergarten class today. Here are a couple of funnies:

This week, the class is learning about dinosaurs. So I read them a couple of books on dinosaurs. After I read the non-fiction dinosaur book, I was amazed by the children's stories of how they had been finding dinosaur bones in their very backyards! It was a real little class of archeologists. Most amazing was the story told by little A, who said that he'd not only found one or two dinosaur bones, but a whole set! After he dug up all the bones, he put them all back together to look like, as he said, "the real dinosaur!"
I thought for a moment, and then asked him, ever so sweetly, "Hm . . . I wonder if I asked your mom and dad about you putting that dinosaur back together, if they would tell me if that was true or not."
He promptly shook his head, never missed a beat, and said, "Nope! Big, fat lie."
Then many of the other dinosaur-bone-finders said they thought theirs had really been chicken bones.

While I was reading the non-fiction dinosaur book called My Dinosaur, we got to a part where the girl and her dinosaur get a drink from the river. Sweet little C said, "I don't think that's real because I don't think a girl would drink from water like that because it probably has a lot of germs in it."
Most of the boys agreed. I guess boys don't mind germy water.

2 comments:

Boss said...

Oh, kindergarteners! You gotta love them! Especially how the main thing that marks a book as fictional is a girl drinking germy water, NOT the girl hanging out with a dinosaur. Priceless!

Just Jiff said...

LOL!! "No, big fat lie." HAHAHAHA!! So funny.

I love listening to Z and his pals tell me their stories. I just smile and say, "Really..." and let them go on and on and on. If you're quiet enough, but look interested... they keep adding to it. haha.