Preschool Kids Say the Darnedest Things...

Let me just tell you a few Preschool experiences I have had lately before I forget them. Yesterday I was in the middle of my greeting circle, singing a fun little song where we say, "Jacob's wearing a green shirt a green shirt a green shirt Jacobs wearing a green shirt to preschool today." Well some of the kids like to say spider man or butterfly, or army man...so we have fun being silly and trying to fit in the a whole mouthful like Quinn is wearing an army man shirt, an army man shirt....etc... I wish I could sing it for you then you would really understand how funny it is. Anyway it was a mouthful. I did that with all the kids and then started to go into the next thing when a cute little girl says, "wait, we need to sing about your shirt Ms. Lynsie!!" "Oh OK, well you tell me, what kind of shirt am I wearing today?" then I had kids saying "blue" "flower" "polka-dot" all at the same time (it was a shirt with a few diff designs on it), So, then I said, "Do you think we can be really silly and sing all of that... Ms. Lynsie is wearing a blue flower dot shirt?" I was getting ready to start the song, many of the kids looked excited about it like it would be fun, when suddenly one of the girls rolls her eyes, slumps her shoulders and looks at me like ...you idiot... then she says loudly in a way that was like Duh, Hello!, "NO, Ms. Lynsie you can't sing!" Oh my goodness I just completely lost it, I was laughing so hard I haven't laughed that hard in a while! I'm pretty sure the kids thought I was nuts it was right in the middle of circle time and I tried to stop because the girl that said it looked a little embarrassed I knew she meant that it would be hard to sing all of that at one time, so FINALLY I regained composure... somewhat, explained to that girl that I knew what she meant and went on with the silly song. It was hilarious because later at that same circle time someone else said something funny too and I don't remember what it was, but I started laughing again... not quite as hard though. I am usually pretty good about not laughing at innappropriate times and totally ignoring (pretending to anyway) when kids fart or something, which can be pretty funny sometimes, but this was bad I laughed so hard I was almost crying! I have another story not quite as funny but its a lot like what kids say every day. I was playing outside with the kids and on our playground instead of gravel or wood chips we have shredded up tires, which is cool because it feels really bouncy when you walk on it. The kids like to play with it, I have one kid that calls it the beef jerky playground. Well, I was being chased by a dragon (for pretend), all the other kids (I only have 5 kids in that class) and I were running away from the kid who was pretending to be a dragon and he was roaring and making fire breathing noises and some of the kids that were getting chased were screaming when all of the sudden a quite little girl walked out from under the playground in front of us so that I almost tripped over her, yelled "OK, its time for dinner!!" It was funny the way she did that, out of no where. Anyway so I went over to the pretend restaurant with her and asked what we were going to have, "...Ummm, pepsi rice! Pepsi rice chicken." Another time during centers I looked over into the dramatic play area and this little boy was just kind of in his own world. He was wearing a hard hat, with a phone up to his ear singing the darth vador theme from star wars! It was great:)