#teaching is funny

[scr3amingfrog]

I was teaching a lesson the other day and my student (7) saw a trombone case in the room. He asked what was in the "weird looking suitcase". He was far too distracted by it to continue warming up, so I answered.

Me: a trombone

Him: a what?

Me: it's like a trumpet, but bigger and with a slide instead of buttons

Him: I don't get it.

So I pulled up a pic on my phone, and he was like, "How do they play it without hitting themselves in the face?"

I tries to explain but failed, so I pulled up a search of people actually playing the trombone.

One of the first pictures was of Trombone Shorty (really cool jazz artist), and my student went, "Wait a second! Is that Martin Luther King jr?"

Me: no, buddy, that is simply a black man

I had to hold in my laughter for the rest of the lesson.

This kid is always saying off-handed funny things without realizing. Honestly, he's one of my favorite students.

[talkingfiction-blog]

Some of the third graders were talking about how they speak Spanish and English. I told them that meant they were bilingual. Another spoke up spoke up and said he spoke philopenis. I lost it.

[brastuffer-blog]

A girl in my class poured clay slip all down the front of my sweater

no this isn't the beginning of a porn