Burning a hole in your pocket- redefined

The summer break is fast approaching, so I taught the song Summer Holiday to my class and they loved it.  

RN: Ma’am, we will miss you in the summer holidays.

Me: I’ll miss you all too.

AJ: Do one thing. Take our phone numbers, and call us when you miss us.

Me: That will burn a hole in my pocket.

AJ: Ehh..? Burn a hole in your pocket? What does that mean?

Me: Uhmm..I’ll give you a clue. What do you keep in your pockets?

FM: Purse?

SS: Mobile phone?

RN: Aaaaaaah! I know I know!!

Me: Ok...tell me.

RN: If you call up all of us (28), then your mobile handset will become hot. When you keep it in your pocket, it will burn a hole in your pocket..

Me: ....................

After introducing pronouns in my class...

Me: Identify the pronouns in these sentences.

Me: They went to Cairo. 

The whole class in unison: Theyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

Me: He was born in Egypt.

Heeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Me: She made dinner for the whole family.

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Me: It is yellow with black stripes.

Ittt

Me: Will you come to the party?

Yesssssssssssssssssssssss!

Me: (barely holding my laughter)- pretend anger now- Pronoun???

Youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!

Me: We are well-behaved students.

Thank you, ma’ammmmm!

Me: (laughing so hard now, can barely get my words out.) Pronoun???????????

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.........

I am all giggly now, and can barely think of a title for this posssssssssssssssssssssssssssst.

Lost and found- Valentine's Day

Date: 14^th February, 2010

Time: 6:45 AM (20 minutes before morning prayers begin)

Place: In my classroom

Me (Enters my classroom looking crestfallen. My laptop is missing since the day before.) What follows is Berne’s TA theory in full action.

V: Why are you looking saaaaaaaaaaaaaaad?

Me: I think I lost my laptop.

S: Did you look in your ‘office’? (They are very proud that their class teacher (also a PRO) is the only teacher who has an office.)

Me: Yes, I did.

S: It must be at home.

Me: No, it’s not, I checked. I looked everywhere, I couldn’t find it.

F: You only told us, “Try, and try till you succeed”.

Me: (Yeah..now hit me with my own shovel) Deep sigh!

V: Don’t worry, you will find it ma’am.

A cheery K enters the class: Happy ValenceTimes Day!!

Me: Errrrmm..what is Valentine’s Day!

K: (in disbelief) You don’t know????

(Teachers usually enjoy a demigod status. There is NOTHING that they are not supposed to know)

Me: Nopes!

V: When you like somebodyyyyy, you give them a card on Valencetimes day, and they become your Valencetime.

I’m enjoying this now, and its helping me take my mind off the 45+ suspect list that I’ve been making since yesterday.

Me: I am not sure I understand that.

F: Why don’t you look in the internet??

V: Ma’am doesn’t have her laptop remember silly.

(You won’t let me forget that, will you?)

The school bell’s ringing puts me out of my misery and signals the beginning of yet another day....

P.S: I found my laptop

Valentine Wishes from my archives