Pure Honesty

    As I returned to school today, well rested from a weeks worth of Spring break, I was excited to see the 18 little smiling faces that I had not seen for the past 9 days.  I greeted the students as they came in the room this morning with a smile and a hug, handshake or high five -whichever they prefer. Our day was off to a GREAT start as we whizzed through math reviewing non-standard measurement. We were discussing some of the reasons why it is important to learn how to measure. We created a list that included reasons such as
 "So we can measure how tall we are"
 "So we can build or make things"
 "So we can bake/cook"
 "So we can measure how much we weight".
All of which are very good answers. As we added the last reason "so we can measure how much we weigh" to our chart I saw a hand go up in the back of the room. I called on the student and asked if she had another reason that we could add to our chart, and this was her response " No- but Mrs. Cowan, you sure are getting fat!" Before I even had time to react to the statement another little voice piped up with " No, Mrs. Cowan isn't getting fat-the baby is getting fat". At this point I was cracking up! I responded with "Thank you sweetheart, and yes, Mrs. Cowan is getting bigger."

You have to love 5 year olds. They speak nothing but the truth......unless they are in trouble :)