Wednesday, May 13, 2009

On all things inappropriate

A 5th grade student today realized the following:

"Ms. Lady, if my name is Maggie Fernandez, then my initials are inappropriate." Uhhh...can you elaborate? "You know....MF....MFer...."

Yeah, Maggie, I guess they are. And I guess it is a sweet day when a 12 year old is telling you what is and isn't appropriate.

All of this came about during a wild round of Balderdash, which is pretty much my favorite thing to do when the lesson plan ends early. I was playing a round once with my middle schoolers and a student chose the word "impala." The dictionary said only that it was an African antelope, but one of my 8th graders knew better:

"Oooohhh! I know this one, its a sweet car."

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