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i had sprained my ankle and standing on it all day wasn't working out too well. by the afternoon i was unsuccessfully hiding a limp and i mentioned to the class that i probably looked so silly limping around all day. bryson reassured me when he said, "don't worry, miss a, your greatest fans are in here!"

pictures

we had just received our group class picture and cayden's mom saw him looking at the picture and giggling to himself.

mom: what's so funny, cayden?

cayden (still giggling and shaking his head): i'm the fattest kid in my class!

mom (panicking): who told you that?!?

cayden (nonchalantly): nobody. i figured it out myself.

mom: well, did you tell anybody else?

cayden: just davon.

mom: and what did he say?

cayden: he said i should go on a diet.

wedding

recently i got to meet an actor from my favorite tv show and i told my students about how exciting it was. of course, they asked if i was going to marry him and if so, would i invite them? i promised them that if this actor and i ever got married they would be the first people on the invitation list. this was very exciting to them and the class erupted with chatter. ready to move on i told the class to get ready for history. they were still buzzing about my upcoming, imaginary nuptials so they ignored me. i casually said, "if you don't get ready for history, i won't invite you to our wedding." this silenced most of them, except for marcus, who exclaimed, "even if you don't invite me i'll still come." "you can't, marcus, you won't know where or when it will be, " i countered. marcus was ready with his secret weapon, "so? i'll just look it up in the phone book. you can find out everything in the phone book!"

trees

the question said to underline the 5 things that were not invented by anybody and ryan underlined buses. while checking his work he noticed his mistake and told us, "oops, i thought it said bushes. i got it wrong." i teased him saying, "no, ryan, it's right. didn't you know that buses grow on trees?" "yeah, right," he replied. everybody laughed and jacob said very seriously, "money does, too." forrest piped up, "yeah, that's true! in california!" and hope thoughtfully asked, "is that why everyone in california's so rich?" and jacob, apparently the money tree expert, said, "yes, most money trees grow in beverly hills."