Once in a while – in my line of work – something just comes along to tickle your funny bone. It was a drab and rainy Monday morning today. I had three classes of second graders before lunch and it was time to do a report card assessment piece. They were to create a poster using Microsoft Word. They were directed to finish a sentence, center the text, change and enlarge the font, add their name in a smaller font, insert, center and resize a picture. They could use color and/or Word Art if they chose. They were to print their work and save a copy to their files. Their ability to do those things were all I cared about. Spelling and subject matter was not really an issue. Spell checking is our next BIG lesson anyway.
I gave them a choice. The sentence they were to finish was a toss up between ‘It is important to RECYCLE because…’ or ‘It is important to Save Animals because….’
I had 78 papers to grade. I wanted to do them quickly because the four 4th grade classes in the afternoon had a more involved project that would need grading. Sooo….I was flipping through papers, checking off the five things I was assessing when I came across the work of a sweet little blue eyed blonde. Stopped my green marker (it’s an Earth Day project after all) in it’s tracks and drew a gut busting chuckle.
“It’s important to
Save Animals
because if we don’t they will all
dye and We WilL have to be
Vegirteriauns.”
