Glorious three...

This was one of those moments in my classroom where I HAVE to change the subject asap. I have a lot of those. They usually make for good stories.

Here is a little snippet from our high frequency word introduction this morning.

Picture 28 first graders all gathered around me at the carpet for our annual word meeting.

Me (holding up a card with the word "three" written on it): "Okay. Here is another word for our wall. On the count of three, tell me what the word is. 1, 2, 3..."

Entire class: "Three!"

Me: "Great! Can anyone use the word three is a sentence?"

Male student: "You can't have three wives."

Everyone laughs, including me.

Me: "Thanks. You're right. You really shouldn't have three wives."

Female student: "Yeah, but you could have one wife and two girlfriends. That would make three. Or just three girlfriends."

Me: "Ummm... that's probably not a very good idea."

Female student: "Well, my dad had a wife and one girlfriend and my mom got really, really mad and that was only two!"

I promptly changed the subject.