"Teacher... I forgot your name" - boy
"My name is Rene'" - me (obviously)
"Oh. Can I call you something else?" - boy
"So do mommy and daddy speak spanish a lot at home?" - me
"sometimes" - girl
"do you know spanish too?" - me
"yup!" - girl
"That's awesome! Can you tell me something in spanish?" - me
"no... (looking at me as if I were a crazy person) ...I don't think in spanish!" - girl
[working on an art project with a little boy, who apparently doesn't like glue]
"okay, now use your glue finger to spread around the glue." - me
(blank stare)
"well if you don't use your glue finger to spread the glue around how will it get glued and stick on?" - me
(boy takes MY hand and uses MY finger to spread around the glue, and giggles)
"I'm going to DJ a party this weekend. That means I have to pretend to like Justin Beiber, because *girl* really likes Justin Beiber. When I DJ I bring the house down! That means that they all think I'm awesome." - boy
"Oh really? I bet you're a great DJ!" - me
"Ya... I like to DJ most of the time." - boy
[same boy]
"I can't wait until payday! I get payday every two weeks. I've been saving up all my paydays so that I can get my special toy that's number 1 on my wish list!" - boy
"You get paydays, huh? Lucky you!" - me
"Ya. Not every Saturday, but almost every Saturday. Usually I get to go buy a toy, but I've been saving up my paydays because I need $100." - boy
"$100?? Must be a pretty special toy! And you must have been saving for a long time, too!" - me
"No... just two weeks." - boy
[Teacher Becky and I exchanged looks... both hoping that a 4 year old doesn't get paid better than we do ;) or just that his special toy isn't really that expensive!]
"TEACHER!!!! (coming from across the room) - boy
"Boy!" - me
(confused look....) "Teacherrrrrrr!!!" - boy
"Boyyyy!" - me
"Teee Cherrrr!" - boy
"Boy?" - me
"Are you talking to me?" - boy
"Well that depends, are you talking to me?" - me
"Teacher... ...Rene'" - boy
[The next few are from Halloween. We took each of our four classes trick-or-treating! Don't worry, I survived!]
"Ooooooo, batman is here!" - me
"No... I'm John Wayne." - boy
(and yes, he was in the batman suit)
(taking a piece of candy out of his bucket and handing it to me) "You can have this" - boy
"Oh, thank you! That's very nice of you to share!" - me
"I don't want it, she said it was a broken" - boy
(it was a little box of milkduds...)
(at snack time we had cupcakes with spiders on top)
"Okay, *girl*, which kind of cupcake do you want; chocolate or strawberry?" - me
"I want a spider!" - girl
"No, which flavor do you want?" - me
"The spider!" - girl
"All of them have spiders... which flavor? Chocolate or strawberry?" - me
"Oh... the spider one!" - girl
