Incident #1: Cold showers
I was telling my students about Mongolia. I told them how the running water broke at camp, so we had to go down to the river to take baths instead. I confided that I have been taking cold showers every morning since then - on purpose - because I just like them better now instead of hot. (This is true.) They thought that was really strange. (Understandably. I don't understand it either.)
This morning one of the girls comes up to me and says, "Guess what, Ms. Eckstrom? I took a cold shower last night."
Me: "What? You did??"
"Yeah." [pained look] "It was coooold!"
(And she wasn't the only one who tried it, I found out.) Will this come up at parent-teacher conferences?
Incident #2: Logic
New vocab word: logic. Mrs. D told the students to think up examples.
Fifth-grader [matter-of-factly]: "It is logic when you go out the door in the morning, and all the neighbors are staring at you, and then you realize, 'Oh, duh! I forgot to put my pants on.'"
In the back of the room, I blink. Mrs. D pauses for just a second, then says brightly, "Yeah, don't you hate it when that happens?"
Incident #2: Logic
New vocab word: logic. Mrs. D told the students to think up examples.
Fifth-grader [matter-of-factly]: "It is logic when you go out the door in the morning, and all the neighbors are staring at you, and then you realize, 'Oh, duh! I forgot to put my pants on.'"
In the back of the room, I blink. Mrs. D pauses for just a second, then says brightly, "Yeah, don't you hate it when that happens?"
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