Much better than a devil...

My students have been writing Halloween stories, this was one of my favorites;)

I was trick-or-treating when suddenly my teacher came out like an angel. She was pretty and the boys came on her.
I said, “Miss Sullivan, why are you dressed up like an Angel?”
“Because the class said I should be an angel.”
“That’s cute.”
Then my sister came to me and said, “Let’s go, we have to go home.”
My teacher told us it was funny.
She came at my door and said, “Trick-or Treat, I’m Jalen’s teacher.”
Then my mom said, “Come in and play Wii with us.”
She said, “Wow, you have Wii?”
“Yes we do!”
We had fun, then everybody went home.
THE END

Monday, Monday...

"Miss Sullivan you can't dress up like a devil because you already are the devil"

What a great start to the week...

TURK-WASH

Last week my students laughed in my face, not in a bad way. I was laughing too. I was thinking, “Are they serious?” They were thinking that I had gone mad – totally crazy. Right now, I can’t even remember why, but we were talking about colors. One student repeated a word about three times and no matter how hard I tried I could not understand her. Finally, after about the fifth try and some explaining from her I figured it out, “Oh, the color you mean is turquoise”. This is when the laughing began. The sweet little girl giggled a little as she responded, “No, Miss Sullivan, turk-wash”.
“Turk-WASH?”
“Yeah Miss Sullivan, turk-wash, like the color of your shirt.”
“I think you mean turquoise”
More laughter.
I could hear a few students mimicking me, “turk-coy-z?” “turrkwoys?”. As I repeated, “Turk-wash?”
Eventually, we were all laughing. The dilemma wasn’t solved, it was better left just as it was.