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Kids Say the Darndest Things!

We've started a "Kids Say the Darndest Things" page!  We are featuring interesting quotes by our very own students at Montlake.  If you would like to submit quotes, please email the web team at webmaster@montlakeschool.net and be sure to include:
  1. grade of student
  2. month and year

Current quotes are featured on the home page.  Here are previous quotes:

February 2010
  • In P6, we were working on name poems.  The idea was to take each letter of your first and last name and think of a word using each of those letters that described the individual.  One child was having problems with the letter “t” so I got out the big school dictionary.  We quickly scanned through the words that began with the letter “t” until we located the word “terrific.”  I put a ruler under this word and left him to write it, while I roamed around the room to help other students.   Before long I heard his frantic call to check his work.  I clearly bent over in hysteria when I discovered that he had written “termite.” - Ms. Forbes (Feb. 2010)
  • Ms. Grandbois:  “For our Valentine’s Day party this afternoon we’ll watch a movie from when I was a kid.  Student:  “Is it a silent movie?” (Feb. 2010)

January 2010
  • In our classroom, we are coloring pictures of Daruma-sans as a way to create New Year’s Resolutions.  In Japan, people make a wish on a Daruma-san, an egg-shaped doll with a determined face and blank eyes.  People give him or her the “gift of sight” by painting in one eye.   In our class, this eye is painted so we can see a goal we want to accomplish.  When the wish is granted, or the resolution is achieved, the other eye of the Daruma-san is painted in. One student wrote (and allowed for editing since it was his goal) the following New Year’s Resolution: "This year, I want to spill betre (spell better).” :) - Ms. Eisenrich (Jan. 2010) 
  • When a 3rd grader finished her MAP test she announced: "I'm outa here!"  (Jan. 2010)
  • During P.E., students in Mr. Schultz's class were discussing information about the Big Climb.  In response to hearing that you climb 69 stories, a student raised their hand and asked, "Will we get suction cups?" thinking that we were climbing the outside! - 4th grader (Jan. 2010)
  • There's been some talk about having crushes amongst kindergartners in P2.  "You know, mommy... we invented 'crushes' in P2!" - Kindergartner (Jan. 2010)

December 2009
  • During Writer’s Workshop when I was conferencing with a 1st grade student I noticed that they had written “Wii” on their page.  While trying to find out more about the games he’d played, I was informed that “Wii” was actually “we” like “What we did together.” - from 1st grade teacher (Dec. 09)
  • What do you want for Christmas?  The Kindergartner replies, "Oh!  A white board, please, please please?!  Just like the kind my teacher has!" (Dec. 09)

November 2009
  • A teacher asks a 2nd grader about the ballet class she's been taking, "When did you start ballet?"  The student responds, "At the beginning!"(Nov. 2009)
  • A Kindergartener whispers, "I think Mr. Dunnigan came in the middle of the night and put new computers in for all the teachers! .... And I think tomorrow, he is going to plug them in!"  (Nov. 2009)
  • Learning new songs:  "It's a brand old flag, it's a high-fivin' flag..."  - 1st grader (Nov. 2009)
  • "OK, don't press so hard on your eye.  You won't be able to see with it when you switch." - Nurse Lombard testing eye sight of 1st grader (Nov. '09).
  • I appreciate my teachers because... (5th graders, Nov. 09, compiled by Rebecca Phelps):
    ... she is a great writing teacher and she's very fun and tries to make things more exciting.
    ... they teach me a lot.
    ...they set a standard beyond a normal standard but not beyond our reach.
    ... they make learning fun.
    ... they understand me.
    ... she lets us have free choice and gives us fun activities.
    ... I can do my homework on the computer. 
    ... she helps us correct our writing.
    ... they teach me what I need to know to be a better person.
    ... my teachers sing a good moose song.
    ... they help me with writing.
    ... he helps me with the problem of the day.
    ... she is one of the nicest teachers.
    ... she helps us when we are falling behind; that is how I feel about my teacher.
    ... they listen to me.
    ... they understand me and I'm crazy sometimes.
    ... she is one of the nicest teachers I have ever had.
    ... they buy classroom supplies with their own money.

October 2009
  • I picked up a student from her classroom for Read Naturally for the first time today.  I said I was very pleased to get a chance to work with her every day.  The student responded, "I can understand why!" (Oct. 2009)
  • A student went home sick today.  I said, "I hope you feel better and are back soon."  She said, "I hope I come back to school one day."  - Kindergartener (Oct. 2009)
  • One student looked at 2 students in my class and said, "Are you both married?  You have the same last name."  The 2 students looked at this student and said, "No, we are twins!" - Kindergartener (Oct. 2009)
  • The Ears Have It!  - I (Ms. Eisenrich) was trying to figure out how I could remember the track our poem was on our CD and a student (3rd grader) came up with the suggestion:  "Why don't you get a little piece of paper, write the number 41 on it, and put it in your ear so it can stay in your brain?"  (Oct. 09)
  • Students were giving compliments to each other in our class meeting (Rm2) and when one student said they didn't know what they were doing on the weekend, another student said, "I hope you have fun whatever you do.  Hopefully it's not clothes shopping, because that is boring."   (Oct. 09)
  • While driving over the pass from the Methow Valley, "Oh, that is definitely sedimentary rock." - 2nd grader in Ms. Gingrich's class. (Oct. 09)
  • "These pants come up to my arm pits!" - 3rd grade Safety Patrols on a very rainy day, filling in for Team 3 while they were away at Camp Sealth - They were very large 'pants' to fill. (Oct. 09)

  • "I LOVE CAMP. I WISH I COULD LIVE HERE!"~ Fourth grade boy spontaneously offered his comment about attending Camp Sealth this fall (Oct. '09)
  • "Can you believe this ---GOOEY DUCKS (a large mollusk) CAN LIVE FOR UP TO 140 YEARS!" ~ 4th grade girl, Camp Sealth attendee, responded in amazement, during a marine science session (Oct. '09)
  • "I already learned that in preschool."  But when asked about more information, she said, "I guess I was absent that day!"
  • "Can you make the doggy come up?" - In MAP testing, you have completed the test when a little dog appears on the screen.
  • "I can't come with you today, Ms. Carpenter.  I'm too cold!" - 1st grader