x + y = LOL

During math class, as I am explaining the importance of showing all of your work on a word problem.

Me: "I know this seems like a lot of extra work right now, but you'll come back and thank me later in life."

6th grader: "I might just text you - is that okay?"

Maybe if I had a Magic Wand...

"Could you in a couple sentences tell me the main point/plot of book 6?" - One of D-Al's friends wanting to be caught up on the Harry Potter series.

Eureka Barbie

"I wanted to play with my Barbies but I also needed to study science so I just made one of my Barbies be Archimedes."

- 6th grader

This is no "Twister"

"Yeah, it was really boring."

- 8th grader, on our tornado drill

Shiny things, all in a row

"Sparkly things that you put on dresses."

-6th grade girl's response when asked to define a "sequence"