is school just plain funny at your house?

[Nicole M]

Because my kids crack me up. Today my son produced this first whack at writing a set of instructions. First of all, we do not call dh "Father", but the Mennonites always refer to Father in the grammar book. (Though Father is very fond of rearranging the dishes!) So that was a crack up, especially in nearly the same breath as "turn that baby on!" - oh, my!

Loading the Dishwasher the Proper Way

First, make sure your brother has completely emptied the dishwasher. Next, scrub the crusty bits off the dishes. Then, load the dishes carefully into the machine. (If you are careful, Father will not rearrange them.) Once it’s fully loaded, put about one tablespoon of dishwasher detergent into the little cup thing and close the hatch. Finally, close and lock the main hatch and turn that baby on!

Repeat.

[DIY-DY]

This part:
First of all, we do not call dh "Father", but the Mennonites always refer to Father in the grammar book. So that was a crack up, especially in nearly the same breath as "turn that baby on!" - oh, my!

Or this part:

Repeat.

Sounds like he's a pretty sharp kid.

Mine do make me laugh quite a bit, too. Not so much today :rolleyes: So I don't have a fresh story to share, but yes, they are a riot, aren't they? Thanks for letting yours make me smile this evening - that was cool!

[Jill, OK]

All of my kids make me laugh (sometimes even intentionally, har har) but my oldest son has a particular gift for it.

Like giving me examples of complex/compound sentences from Napoleon Dynamite.

Or just little witticisms thrown in, througout the day. (Sometimes I do have to tell him to reign it in a little.)

But in all seriousness...I love that my kids are funny. They're great, in general, behavior-wise...but the humor makes our time at home so much more, well, *fun*.

(And my favorite part of your son's composition is the 'crusty bits'. ROFLOL! I have a feeling our guys would get along quite well.)

[Beth in Central TX]

My boys make me laugh all the time. It's part of the fun of homeschooling. Today was a good example. My youngest son is struggling (for lack of a better term) with counting by 2's. He can count by 5's and 10's, but skip counting just doesn't click right now. So we finished his math, and started working on his R&S Reading. There were 3 columns of 12 on the page with 36 total questions. After we finished the page, he looked at me seriously and said, "I never knew 3 twelves was 36." Okay, grammar aside, I think the skip counting will eventually sink in. He was able to get me completely frustrated and completely impressed all within 30 minutes. What's not to laugh at?

[Nicole M]

"I never knew 3 twelves was 36."

oh, my goodness! This reminds me of our math lesson the other day:

"...four boys are sharing two sandwiches..."

"What?! Does that mother want her poor boys to starve to death?"

"Just focus on the problem, mister. How much would each boy get?"

"Well, that depends on the boys doesn't it? If one of the boys is my piggy-pig brother, then *that* boy would get 1 and a half sandwiches, and the other three dear starving children would get 1/6 of a sandwich each!"


(falls on the floor, "fainting" with hunger)

Uh. Yeah. I guess he gets the fractions concept!

I guess for me, in all seriousness, I'm beginning to realize that delight is so essential to who we are and how we acquire knowledge. I'm having to adjust my very serious ideas about what makes school, kwim?

[frogpond1]

chanting- "Lets live the Amish way." I told him that Amish wouldn't shut all the curtains so it would be dark enough at lunch to light all the candles he had gathered. He did his schoolwork by lighting and then "erasing" a candle after each math page. It seemed like we would never get through his work. He still prefers "erasing" candles to "extinguishing" them. I have to go hide all the matches and flame throwers. At the end of school he coated his pointer finger with candle wax. He's my little scientist turned Amish. I told him that Amish boys would work very quickly and quietly and get all their schoolwork done. Yeah right!

[WTMindy]

that I get to hear their funny jokes all day!! I would hate to have them telling all their jokes and funny sayings to some other teacher!!

[Sweetpeach]

We fell of our chairs visualizing Mansa Musa and his 60 000 person entourage traveling to Mecca.

We write funny, silly poems and then laugh about them for days.

SWR gives sentences that show the the same sounding phonograms . . . ie: "Her first church worships early" . . . my kids make up silly sentences that reflect the phonograms. Our current favorite, usually sung on the way to swimming -- I have a spare pair of underwear.

Finally, my 4.5 year old was reciting our latin vocab and chants to our babysitter, and we all just fell over laughing. Not sure why exactly, but it struck us all very funny.

I couldn't do school without some laughs. I think laughing together lays foundational bricks of relationship -- that's most important to me!

Cheerio, Tricia

[Friederike in Persia]

My ds (4, nearly 5) counted to 50 for the first time, got a big grin on his face and then said to me: "Mama, now I can have 50 chocolates!"

[Pongo]

The picture I have for my avatar is my 4 yod dd. She was out playing and she came back with a frog in a polly pocket dress. She showed it to me, after I took the picture I said ," honey, you need to let it go now." Her reply was, "okay, she'll be the prettiest frog in the woods." I never did tell her to undress that poor frog:rolleyes:.....lol

[Frontier Mom]

My oldest always likes to say that as a homeschooler, you can never get expelled!! I told him, in that case, Mom leaves and goes to Caribou Coffee for a while. LOL

My youngest ds came up with two oranges yesterday and announced, "I'm a fruitfly."

Not to mention, we have a rabbit who runs around in our school room so, as everyone is quietly working on math, someone yells because he just jumped in their lap. He will also nibble toes because he wants them to pay attention to him.

However, my favorite is how my dc's tell others the best part of school is that they get to take their dog to school. Precious memories!!

[Ferdie]

My 2nd grader is so funny. Yesterday his english lesson covered past tense verbs, specifically if you put an "ed" on the end of a verb it means the action happened in the past (walk vs. walked). Today my son was drawing and he wrote a little sentence under his drawing, "This picture is about a maned." He told me that he put an "ed" on the end of the word man so we would know that he lived in the past. LOL! So cute.

[bethben]

Today during a difficult math problem, my 7 year old burst out "call me a cab and get me out of here!" I have no idea where he got that phrase from!
Beth

[DianeJM]

not usually, for the most part. And if you praying types could pray for the fun to return I'd appreciate it. My 9yo ds keeps asking to go to school, and fun is the reason. I'd rather put the fun back in our home school. There are a lot of stresses right now. and I'm having a hard time even getting to school work sometimes. This is the third school year with a steady stream of various difficulties and interruptions, and it will not be letting up soon, I don't think, as my mom was just diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. It's been one thing after another. Plus I have 3 teenagers, and sometimes that is anything but fun (thankfully not all the time). I guess I am a testimony to God's keeping grace. But every so often I'd rather someone "call me a cab and get me out of here"!

I really enjoyed reading your anecdotes, I mean REALLY. Thanks so much for the pick-me-up!

[Nicole M]

Diane, I'm sorry this is a tough time for you. I chuckled at the "call me a cab" line, too. And I most definitely have had those days around here, too.

I'm glad, though, that you got even a wee lift from the anecdotes. I've sure enjoyed them, too.

[Doran]

Because my kids crack me up. Today my son produced this first whack at writing a set of instructions. First of all, we do not call dh "Father", but the Mennonites always refer to Father in the grammar book. (Though Father is very fond of rearranging the dishes!) So that was a crack up, especially in nearly the same breath as "turn that baby on!" - oh, my!

Loading the Dishwasher the Proper Way

First, make sure your brother has completely emptied the dishwasher. Next, scrub the crusty bits off the dishes. Then, load the dishes carefully into the machine. (If you are careful, Father will not rearrange them.) Once it’s fully loaded, put about one tablespoon of dishwasher detergent into the little cup thing and close the hatch. Finally, close and lock the main hatch and turn that baby on!

Repeat.


Oh, you've got yourself one funny guy there! Turn that baby on...repeat!! ROFLOL!!

There are times when we laugh so hard that school just stops altogether. We'll crack up over a history blunder, like the time my youngest shouted out that Charles wanted to become the Holy Ropin' Emperor!! (she has a little trouble with facts!). From then on, all we could picture was some Roman dude with spurs and a ten gallon hat!

The fruit fly story reminded me of something very "unschool" that happened here the other day. I have one frou-frou bra that I bought in desperation at WalMart some months back. It's underwire, which I haven't worn in years, and pink with polka-dots!!! It's also rather perky (to make up for my lack thereof). So, our class clown picks this thing up off my bedrooom chair, wraps it around her head, perky, dotted bulgy parts on either side of her face, and says, "Look, Mom, I'm a fly." :D

Doran

[strider]

not usually, for the most part. And if you praying types could pray for the fun to return I'd appreciate it. My 9yo ds keeps asking to go to school, and fun is the reason. I'd rather put the fun back in our home school. There are a lot of stresses right now. and I'm having a hard time even getting to school work sometimes. This is the third school year with a steady stream of various difficulties and interruptions, and it will not be letting up soon, I don't think, as my mom was just diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. It's been one thing after another. Plus I have 3 teenagers, and sometimes that is anything but fun (thankfully not all the time). I guess I am a testimony to God's keeping grace. But every so often I'd rather someone "call me a cab and get me out of here"!

I really enjoyed reading your anecdotes, I mean REALLY. Thanks so much for the pick-me-up!

*

[LG Gone Wild]

I decided to tell her the real name for that. I mean I just mentionned it a couple of times. She was embarassed because, let's face it, it is an ugly word. Weeks and weeks later, she was skipping around the house singing some tune but the only word in her ditty was v#g%na.

[kalanamak]

of kiddy cards with animals on them. I told him to put them "face down" and then couldn't understand why he kept bowing his head and looking at his lap every time he played a card.