Remember, remember back in November when it was (sort of, briefly) all about Georgette?
She's back. And maybe this will turn out to be one of those-you-had-to-be-there-and-know-the-girl moments, but I'm still laughing and this happened four hours ago now.
Anyway, quick background: the fifth graders have a daily assignment that they do first thing in the morning. They turn it in, it gets corrected over lunch, and after lunch I spend my time pulling them back and helping them correct the things they get wrong. One of the problems today involved a sentence with multiple grammatical errors that they were to rewrite correctly. Among other things, it involved replacing "buyed" with "bought" and as Georgette and I were going over the spelling of bought, the conversation devolved into us being a little silly and this happened:
Georgette: I know how to spell (some word or other I've already forgotten)!! C-O-O-L!
Me: No, that's how you spell Miss Lacey.
(oh the lulz, no?)
Georgette: Well, you wanna know how to spell awesome? G-E-O-R-G-O-T-T-E. Wait!! I mean E-T-T-E!!!
Me: *blink blink* Georgette . . . did you just . . . misspell your own name . . . ?
Georgette: NO!! No! . . . maybe . . . yes . . .
Why is it these kids only make me laugh when during those rare moments when the rest of the class is silent?!?!
Don't get me wrong, I love this girl. She's a sweetheart, and really smart when she tries. But bless her heart, she's also the entire reason the stereotype of the dumb blonde was created.
P. ost S. cript
Sometimes I wish I was good at building stuff. Can you believe this thing is gravity powered?!?
It's moments like this one that makes me miss teaching (it was the bureaucratic stuff I DON'T :) Students crack me up :)
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