Why I Love Sixth Graders

It has been interesting in Mrs. Cole's science class this week! This first little story should be entitled
"Why I DON"T Love Sixth Graders Everyday!"

On Monday the cookie cart came around to my room (a little moneymaking project of the CDC classes.) The student who was selling them asked if I wanted a free cookie.

Me: "No thank you. I really do want one but I am on a diet."

Smart-mouthed-student-I-no-longer-like (while laughing out loud): "YOU are on a diet? HaHa, you don't LOOK like you are on a diet!"

Lovely-just lovely...
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Random questions that kids ask right in the middle of a lecture on waves and wind currents (granted-maybe not the most compelling subject matter)

1. Mrs. Cole, did you know that if you don't ever fart you will burst into flame? (He then proceded to tell me all I ever wanted to know about methane gas.)

2. Mrs. Cole, did you know that if you squeeze your chin skin and then poke it it hurts?

3. Mrs. Cole, is jello a liquid or a solid? I have just always wondered that...

I could not make this stuff up folks!
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And this is a sad one...

Today we got a new student. I am giving a chapter test tomorrow and we were reviewing in class today. So I told her she, of course would not have to take the test tomorrow. Instead of reviewing with us today I asked if she wanted to use one of the computers in my room and browse one of the science websites I have bookmarked.

She replied: "I don't know how to get on a computer. We have never had one."

Sometimes someone else's reality just hits me in the face.