George Washington and the Civil War

After my first week as a student teacher, I have come to the realization that I am in the right profession. It certainly has its fair share of problems, but in the grand scheme of things it is where I was ment to be. The reason I know this is that when leaving at the end of the day, my mentor teacher said "Hurray for Friday! We don't have to stay late and we get a three day weekend!" You know what I thought? I thought, I forgot it was Friday and I can't wait until Tuesday!
In all of my previous employment, I could not wait for Friday! I started the week thinking "only 5 more days..." This week I find myself saying "I can't wait to come back tomorrow!"
I am sure this attitude will change as the school year wears on, but it is nice to have found my place in society, a place that I know I belong.
The group of kids I am working with (third graders), is amazing. They have already amazed me with their abilities and their egarness to learn. I couldn't have asked for a better first class.
Having said that, one of the things that I love about them, is their sense on humor (intentional or not). There are two quotes for today's entery.
The first quote comes from the same boy who won't write with a regular pencil. My mentor teacher was recounting and experience from her past, where she was young and curious about what the boys bathroom looked like compared to the girls. She went in to look around and was disappointed that it wasn't more impressive.
This particular boy looked at her with a straight face and asked "Well, what did you expect? Disco balls?"

The second quote comes from the interaction between a group of students. One student is sharing with the class a box filled with things that are most important to him. In that box, he included an army man that was his grandfathers. It belonged to a set that was made in replication of the Civil War soldiers. One of the boys classmates shouted out "My great-great-granfather was in the Civil War!" another student responds with "My father knows someone who was in the Civil War and he is still alive!" (read: impossible since the person would be around 150 yrs old) Yet another student added his two cents with the comment: "Wow, just like George Washington!"
This display was so amusing to my teacher and I that we accidently laughed out loud. After drawing attention to ourselves, we had to try to explain that not only that Civil War veterans couldn't be alive today, but that George Washington was not alive during the war.
Their version of U.S. History would certainly be entertaining!