love through a kid's eye...

well, i have a friend who teaches 3rd grade just down the hall, and she comes up with the best activities for her kids, so i decided to "borrow" this cute quiz she gave her kiddos.  i wanted to see some 2nd grade responses to these questions on love. :)  i have had many laughs about some of them and i hope you do too!

while i was giving the quiz and reading the questions, all the kids were so embarrassed; it was so cute!  some of them didn't want write their thoughts because i would be reading them... little do they know, im posting their responses for everyone to read!  here are some of my favorites:


1.  What do you think is the right age to get married?  Why?

      ~I think that I shod be 20 to be married becaus you can not get married when you are 8. 
      ~I think you shoud get married at age 28 becuse it gives you time to know the person rilly well.
      ~20 because it is after all the 1 dijit numbers and teens.
      ~I think the rite age to git married is 22 becaus people love that age.
      ~I think the right age to get marred is 27 because my mom was marred at 27.

2.  What is falling in love like?
      ~Like my hort is brsting.
      ~I think falling in love is like sone thing crazy becuse you are dieing to know that person adn tell them that you are in love.
      ~I donot now I haven't.
      ~Like kissing somewon.
      ~Falling in love is embarrassing!
      ~Falling in Love is like being in a romantic movie because love is sweet.
      ~I think it is creepey.

3.  How can you tell if 2 adults eating dinner at a restaurant are in love?
      ~Becus he gives hr a reing.
      ~I think they wod get iey contact.
      ~I can tell becaus they are probobley on a dayt.
      ~If they are laughing.
      ~If they are staring at each other.
      ~They useshly kiss.
      ~If they kiss and do love stuff.

4.  Do you want to love someone SOMEDAY?  Why?
      ~Yes because I want to have kides. 
      ~Yes becus I am prity.
      ~Yes I want to becuse I want to have my own kids becase I want to see what my kids wood look like.
      ~Yes I do because you can git childrin and have childrin.
      ~no!  because Boys are gross!
      ~Yes Because I think it is going to Be jast fine.  (I think this is my favorite!)
      ~Yes I do Because It will be hard by your self.
      ~Mayby I want to love someone because averyone else will.
      ~Yes Becus my kids will have a DaD.

5.  Do you feel loved?  By who??
      ~Yes because Alexis tlod me.
      ~Yes I am loved by God!
      ~I feel loved by my mom and dad becuse ther not Grochy or mean to me they do nice things for you and you do things for them.
      ~I feel loved by my best friends.
      ~Yes I Do fill love by my teacher because she is nice.
      ~I feel loved by my parints.
      ~yes By ms. Johnson she is grat.
      ~God

6.  Why do people fall in love? 
      ~Becos they doNt whant to Be wowone.  (alone, but due to his speech, many of his sounds are w's. :) )
      ~Becus a hot Boy and girl meet and fall in Love and kiss and get merred and have kids.
      ~To be happy.
      ~To be married and have a happy family. 
      ~because they Love to be with each other.
      ~bcus they like to date.
      ~because if no onen wood fall in love then ther wood be no more people!


kids are so precious!  i just love hearing their thoughts and feelings on every subject.  hope they brought you some smiles today!

its the little things

i just cant wait for valentines day.  i feel like a kid again!  i was filling out all of my valentines, and thought about how fun it will be to go around to all of the kids bags and drop them off.  i cant wait to see all of my kids smiles and hear their laughter while they open theirs, and play all of the games that i have planned.  i love being the one in charge of the schedule, but i am mostly excited to be a part of all the fun activity throughout the day! :)  it feels so fun being on the other side of the school day...its almost like being behind the scenes.  i wonder if my kiddos get as excited as i do for days like this?!  i just hope i remember to prepare myself for the sugar rush! 


on a side note, i finally read the book, you are special, to my class (i have been wanting to for quite a while now) and we wrote entries in our reading notebooks about how we can connect to the book, or what it reminded us of.  it was amazing to see their insight and how they could relate to the book so well.  they could think of times they felt a lot like punchinello with hurt feelings, how they may have felt like another wemmick by giving gray dots to others, or even how they felt like lucia by not caring about what others think.  they all understood the message about how we should not to judge others by what they look like, say, or do.  i dont know if they connected it 100% to the true meaning of the book, but i loved hearing the responses they came up with, and being a part of the discussions with the book.  sometimes i wonder if they really are more intelligent than me!  im thrilled to be able to dig so deep into these meaningful books with my students.  if you have not read you are special by max lucado, i strongly encourage you to do so!  every time i read it, i am covered in goosebumps and tear up! its sends such a strong message.  i hope my kids know just how special they are.  i need to remember to tell them so every day.  sometimes i get too caught up in what im teaching, how they are so squirmy, or the fact that i dont know how to get things across to them always.  i need to take the time to sit back and let them know the things that truly matter.

teaching makes me smile.

so after almost a week away from my kids, i was definitely ready to see them again!  in line after a bathroom break, i mentioned the fact that you are supposed to get 3 hugs a day.  well, they acted on that one for sure...  i certainly met my quota for the week after saying that!  i absolutely love 2nd grade hugs. :)  and at least i know they are listening to some things that i say! 

another tidbit to make you grin... i love the way kids hear and repeat certain words.  my kiddos were working on an assignment in social studies.  (they have to come up with their own store and decide all of the factors that go along with it like their name, what they will sell, how much they will charge, and so on) well two of them came up to me very perplexed about how they will determine the cost of the animals for their pet store because, "it apends on which animal" theyre selling.  oh, the joys that go into my work. :)