Kindergarten Funny

So, clearly by my lack of posts, the whole "back-to-school" thing has occurred... again. I'm not sure how it keeps happening every year, but I'm determined to make it stop!

Instead of boring you with my whines and complaints about school/volleyball/lack of sleep/having no life, I thought I'd share a story that made me laugh today. I KNOW RIGHT?! It's about time I laughed at school instead of wanting to pull my hair out! Hopefully this is just the beginning MANY funny moments and good stories from my classroom this year, but I'll start with this one.

At the beginning of every school year, we do a lot of activities where students practice writing and recognizing their first names. The first letters they learn are those in their name. One of my favorite activities that we do is reading the book Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes. 

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For those of you unfamiliar with the story, it is a cute book about a young mouse named Chrysanthemum, who loves her name until her classmates tease her about it. However, a popular, and pregnant, teacher (named Delphinium Twinkle) defends her to the class and her family comforts her each night, reminding her "how perfect" her name is.

The kids teasing Chrysanthemum make fun of how long her name is, including that it has 13 letters in it- exactly half of the alphabet. Every year, I read this story before we graph each student's name in my class to see how many letters every one has.

So after reading the story this morning, and saying the name "Chrysanthemum, Chrysanthemum, Chrysanthemum!" about 30 times during the book, I asked the students what they thought Mrs. Twinkle chose for her baby daughter's name at the end of book. This little girl in my class raises her hand all excitedly and says "oh oh oh, Julianne!!!"

WHAT?! My assistant and I caught each others eyes and burst out laughing. I mean, really?! We didn't hear the whole "Chrysanthemum" name repeated 8943974 times?! And what's with Julianne?! No one in the story was name Julianne!

Oh my goodness. I'm either in for a verrrrry long year, or a verrrrry funny one! :)