Teacher discussing Thanksgiving:
"What would you like to give thanks for?"
Little girl: "Frogs!"
"Why frogs?"
"Because when you kiss them they turn into princes" |
Little girl: My Daddy's writing his PhD
Teacher: What's he writing it on?
Little girl: His computer |
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Teacher discussing evolution:
"Where do you think the sun comes from?"
Child: "Holiday" |
Child to teacher who is
explaining isosceles triangles: "Why do you keep saying 'I'm so silly?'" |
Doing the timeline of her life a
little girl asked by her teacher: "What did you turn after two?" replied
"Left" |
Miss Felicity: "What do you want
to be in the school concert?"
"Spiderman!"
"Do you want to be a king spiderman or a shepherd spiderman?"
Long pause: "Spiderman spiderman" |
Little girl: "My great, great,
great, great grandfather went to heaven". Miss Emily: "What about your great
grandfather?". Child thinks..."I think he went to another country" |
Boy to his elder sister:
"Why are you allowed to do it when I'm not?"
Sister: "Because I'm older"
Boy: "But I'm not new" |
| Teacher to little boy: "I
bumped into your mum in a shop at lunch time". Little boy: "Did
you say sorry?" |
Little boy: "You can die if
you do cigaretting" |
Conversation between little girl
and little boy: "Can you come to my house today?" "No, I've
got lunch bunch" "After lunch bunch?" "No, I have to
go home. I have a lot of paperwork" |
| Little girl: "I speak so
many languages - French, English, American and Babyish" |
Little girl while making a
family tree: "I wish I had a family tree in my garden" |
Little boy: "I'm going to
Lily's house. You need a lot of money to play mummys and daddys. Later
I'll go to the bank" |
| (During a term doing The Continents as our
theme) Two four year olds looking at a teacher's bracelet: One asks the other "Do you
think that bracelet comes from Asia?" The other replies "Or maybe it's from
Africa" |
Doing insect terminology cards, discussing why
the insect had legs towards the top of its body: "I know why - in case he wants to do
a headstand" |
Three year old about her baby sister: "My
baby sister has changed. She's turned into a proper little lady" |
| "Stop in the name of the law of
gravity" |
Little boy talking to teacher about the fact
that she is pregnant and the baby is in her tummy: "Why did you eat your baby?" |
Little boy looking at Mum's photograph for a
project on families: "I've got the prettiest mummy you ever saw" |
One little boy to another: You must do a good
job when you grow up. What are you going to be?"
"A witch"
"That's not a job. Anyway a boy witch is a wizard" |
"It was unbelievable this morning because
I popped my head out of the cover and it felt very exhausted as soon as I woke up. I
couldn't believe it" |
Miss Felicity to little boy: "You are
sweet enough to eat. Can I eat you?"
Serious answer: "No, have a bite of my biscuit" |
Miss Felicity to little boy: "Come on old
man"
"I'm not an old man" - pause - "I'm a new man" |
Boy to girl: "Broom the hair out of your
eyes" |
"My Mummy cried on my first day at school
so I had to take her home" |
| "I can feel a sneeze on the inside but
not on the outside" |
"If I'm good, I'm going on a holiday to
Florida".
"Well, if I'm good, I'm going to heaven" |
Miss Felicity: "Look at that
flutterby". American child: "In English we call it a butterflap" |
