Daily Battles

Welcome back from spring break! We were celebrating spring here in Indiana anyway last week. Mother nature gave us a good size snow storm and plenty of 30 degree days.


At any rate, here are just a few of the daily battles I face in 5th grade:

• Do you count "averates" as correct when the answer should be "evaporates?"

• There was a huge gap in the line as we walk back from lunch so I inquired as to why one particular boy was distancing himself so much. He points to Girl A and Girl B: "I'm scared of her. She likes me." Me:"Which one?" Student: "Both of them. I dated that one for a week and the other one..." Followed by an expression of bewilderment.

• What's the difference between mass and weight? Student: "Weight is like what happens to you when you eat McDonald's all the time."

• Homework assignment asks for an example of a solid. Student answer: "Stamche." Which I'm pretty sure is "stomach" and what does one even do with such an answer?