Back to School

It's that time of year again. Yep, that's right, it's time for "guess how hold Ms. Ebberts is" game.

Well, I never know how it begins, but someone always starts talking about how old I am.

I mainly got in the 30s. Lots of guesses for ages in between 37 and 32.

So, I decided to have a little fun...

Me: okay, I'll give you a hint. I was born before 1996 (which is the year most of them were born) and after 1963.

Class: WAIT! What?!

Boy (yells): that means she was baptized!

Then he looks directly at me and says, "right? Isn't like that the way that people say they have two births and are like reborn?"

I don't remember exactly what my response was but I know what I wanted to say: yes, you can be reborn through belief in Jesus. But I figured that probably goes against the whole separation of church and state, so I just laughed and did an example of applying linear pairs and vertical angles to the class instead.

Random quotes

Me: Have you guys ever seen Mean Girls?

Boys: No

Me: Oh, you should watch it, it's really funny. It's not a girly movie, it's for boys too.

Boy: Yeah, that's what my mom said about Steel Magnolias, too. She lied.

 

Boy: "Did you guys know Vietnam was an actually country?"

 

I'm standing in front of the classroom teaching:
Boy: Are you always this physically blessed when you stand in front of the room, Ms. Ebberts?


Girl: I'm going to set you up with this guy I know. He lives in Mexico and started an orphanage. I think you'll like him, he's REALLY Christian.

Spring Update

I ate a neon pink gummy bunny that tasted the way trash smells today.
After I spit the candy, I offered the bag of candy to one of my (former) students.He accepted, then convinced me to try a different color.
The purple ones taste like cough syrup.


Me and a few students got to talking about Pokemon in Geometry. So, I said something about Jiggly Puff and proceeded to teach. Well, this is first block, so sometimes the coffee that I have before school makes me say and do weird things. So, in the midst of giving my class notes, I turn to them in the middle of a sentence and yell, "PI-KA-CHUUUUUUUUUUUU"

Mid-winter Highlights

This semester has been a whirlwind. I know my kids have said TONS of really weird and funny things, I, unfortunately, have done a poor job at recording them.

Here are some things that I can remember and that are fresh on my mind:

1. Today I told a group of kids:
"You can practice licking your nostrils after you complete your work"


2. In 4th block Geo, one of my students (jokingly) asked: Why do you hate me?
My response? [pretending to read from a piece of paper] A reenactment of 10 Things I Hate About You when Kat (Julia Stiles) reads her poem about Patrick (Heath Ledger) to the class. You know, "I hate it, I hate the way your talk to me...But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you. Not even a little bit. Not even at all!!" I pretended to run out of the room crying.
Got a small applause from the class.


3. I teach an after school credit completion Geometry class until Spring Break. It's basically like summer school during the school year. It's kind of fun because it's a pretty random group of kids, so I've gotten to build new relationships, which is always a plus.

On Wednesday, I was helping a student at my desk, so I pulled over a chair. He went back to his desk, but sat on it instead of in a chair. I asked if he wanted his chair back. Here's what follows:

Student: No. I'm okay.
Me: Okay, well I'm going to put it by you just in case.
Student: What, every chair has a home?

So, (naturally) I begin to sing to sing to my student, "Every chair has its home" to the tune of "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" by Poison. I included a little bit about how every desk has its own classroom.

Totally weirded the boy out.

Starting the new year off right

A boy talking about how Chuck Norris kicked an '8' and turned it into infinity distracts me so I say this to the class:

me: Nothing is impossible for Chuck Norris

Another boy: Yeah, well, what about stapling Jell-O to a brick wall while giving birth to a shark?!

I had nothing to refute that comment.