Friday, February 27, 2009

How do you get milk from a cow?

I am always getting funny stories that teacher's write about their students in my e-mail, so I decided to share one of my own. I started doing this lesson called Mondo in the classroom, where you post a picture and have the students talk about what they see in the picture. It is a continuous lesson that takes place over the period of three to four days. The first picture we looked at had a little boy with an older man, milking a cow. Here is what happened after the students explained the picture to me:

I asked them, "How do you get milk from a cow?"
Studnets: You squeeze it
Me: So you're saying if I walked up to a cow and said hello Mr. Cow, I would like some milk today, and squeezed his ears I would get milk.
Students: NO!!
Me: Why not?
Students: You'll get ear wax!
Me: What if I squeezed his cheeks?
Students: Eww!!! NO!!! You'll get snot.

I had to try so hard not to laugh when they said that, but I could not keep from smiling. :)

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