Slightly Inappropriate Stories

Today was party amusing and partly frustrating.

The kids were okay in the morning. Chatty, but OK. Then they had inside recess after lunch and the afternoon just went downhill from there.

I did a lot of this:

"Look at me."

"Sit."

"Stop moving."

"Put the pencil down."

"Listen."

"Sit."

"Stop talking."

"Follow directions."

"Stop."

"Sit."

"Stop!"

"Sit!"

Argh. Anyway, I hate inside recess.

I've got one story for you from this morning. During writing time a kid was telling me he was going to write about his trampoline. This was overheard by another child, who also had something to tell me about his or her trampoline. Anyway, eventually, once everyone is back to working one girl comes up to me and quietly tells me she wants to tell me a funny story about her trampoline. I say OK and she proceeds to tell me that sometimes her mom jumps on the trampoline. She then points to her chest and says, "You know these things right here? When my mom jumps on the trampoline they go up and down. When she jumps up they go up and when she goes down they go down!" She then giggled to herself and said, "Isn't that funny?!" (Very innocently and having no idea that what she's saying is the slightest bit inappropriate - she's just making observations!) So I just nodded and said, "Oh. OK, go finish your writing." Which she skipped off happily to do.

First grade. They will say ANYTHING.