I want to share some of the funny stories I have from the classes I’ve taught over the last couple of years.

What happens when a cow comes to your school?

We had a group come to our school that did a presentation on dairy cows recently. They brought their trailer to the field and had a cow on display and were showing the students how they milk a cow among many other things. One student (I think he’s in grade 5) in the front row was sitting near the cow’s tail and was making silly faces at the cow. All of a sudden the cow lets a large load go and some cow dung splatters on to the boy making faces in the front row. Let’s just say he wasn’t making any more faces at the cow after this!

He stole my boyfriend!

I was teaching a grade 5/6 class the other day and a girl comes in after recess and heads straight towards me with an upset look on her face. Without hesitating she says, “Alannah stole my boyfriend and she’s not giving him back.” I’m somewhat confused and ask her what she means. She says, “I told her that I love Edward Cullen (you know that heartthrob from the Twilight books and movies…yeah, right!) and she told me she loves him more and she took a picture I had of him and kissed him and now she won’t give it back or take it back.”

Why did you wait?

The line up was 3 students long at my desk. The grade 3 students in the class were quietly working on their project and the ones in line were patiently waiting. I saw Jonathon join the line as the fourth student with a nervous look on his face. Around 5 minutes past and finally it’s Jonathon’s turn. “Hi Jo…,” before I can even greet Jonathon he interrupts me. With his face beet red he whispers quietly to me, “I went to the bathroom in my pants.” My fist response was, “You waited in line for 5 minutes to let me know. In the future, if it’s urgent like this, then feel free to interrupt me!”

I have many more stories that I’ve posted on www.MyTeachingStory.com This is a site for all kinds of teachers to post their teaching stories.