Weather in 1st Grade

This moment is brought to you by our first graders. The question asked, "If it is chilly outside, what is the temperature? Hot or Cold" My little hispanic students all answered "Hot" when asked why they marked hot instead of cold, they told us the CHILI their mom makes is hot!

Are you really sisters?

So, at the start of the year there was a new 5th grade teacher, some of my students from last year decided that she and I looked like sisters. So, as teachers what do we do, we play along. Within a few weeks we have all the kids in fourth and fifth grade convinced that we are sisters. At conferences tonight I had an parent of a student ask me if we really were sisters :) Ha ha ha, we must be pretty good at this game!

Chores

Their journal prompt today was "Tell me about the chores you have to do at home." To get their minds thinking I explained to them some of the chores I had when I was little. Such as helping with dishes on certain nights of the week, dusting, vacuuming, cleaning the tub. I talked about which ones were easy and which ones I didn't like. My kids listened very intently. One little boy raised his hand and asked, "Miss Brog, how much did you get paid for doing your chores?" I smiled, and replied, "Nothing, it was just part of being part of a family." To which my entire class broke out into conversation about how that was impossible. They then asked, "Well if you didn't get paid, what was your reward?" Once again, I tried to explain to them that it was just something that we did in our house. I had totally forgotten that kids don't have chores anymore, and if they do they are rewarded for them! What would it be like to be a kid in 2010?