Fun Facts from 2B

I have been compiling a list for quite a while now of all the little things I love about my second graders. It's a great reference to look at after a long, not-so-good day!

• Some of them have superior imaginations. Others have none.

• They had a party in art class, yet somehow my classroom floor was covered in popcorn.

• They have the most advanced selective hearing abilities ever! It's astounding.

• I only trust the girls to teach me words in Arabic. The boys purposely lie.

• When my students want to say "octopus" it comes out as "octopiss." Every time. All of them.

• I killed a baby cockroach and two spiders in my classroom all before 7:15 one morning. Productive, I know!

• Saying "keep your hands to yourself" is a challenge to them. I'm convinced of it.

• They are far too comfortable with me! I went to get a fork at lunch and came to back to find one eating my pretzels and another trying to hack into my phone...both of which were inside my lunch-bag!

•  The days I encourage the kids to try really really hard to open their water bottles in the lunch room are really the days when the bottles are too difficult for me to open!

• I have the cutest second-graders. (Okay, this one might be more of an opinion)

• Soccer is more than a thing to do at recess...it is their lifeblood.

• They are quite Unaware of each other...I watched my smallest girl carry four chairs, one at a time, across the room. A few minutes later I watched my biggest boy carry all four at once back to the same place she had moved them from.  There was no need to move the chairs in either instance.

• They are very nosy!! They beg me to share any letter from home, they watch me like a hawk during their French class (but when I am teaching it's like I'm invisible), they make up silly things to ask just to come over to my desk and look at things, if I smile at something they will also smile even though they have no idea why I am smiling (I've tested this!) and then they will ask why I am smiling. 
• They answer questions like this:  
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• They make me smile (and usually) laugh Every day!