Ten phrases I might as well record because I say them at least ten times a day:
1. Sit on your pockets! Criss-cross apple sauce!
2. Your pencil's broken? OK fine, what do we do. That's right, put it in the "bad pencil" can and get a new one from the "good pencil" can. [It's 47 days into the school year and this still seems complicated.]
3. Really? You have to go to the bathroom? We just came in from recess. Try to wait.
4. Lunch is not for another 47 minutes. It's not that long. You do not have to eat your pencil while waiting.
5. Sit on your pockets! Criss-cross apple sauce!
6. Please keep your hands/feet/tongue to yourself.
7. Don't forget to write your name, number, and date at the top. NAME, then number, then date... look at the board for the date.... NAME first.... then number.... then date.
8. One, two, three - eyes on me!
9. Really? You have to go to the bathroom? We just came in from recess. Try to wait.
10. Sit on your pockets! Criss-cross apple sauce!
~Mamie "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro!" (Hunter S. Thompson)
LOVE this. Maybe my next TTT will be at the teacher site, and I'll list all the things *I* say all the time (though most of the stuff I say wouldn't be appropriate for your little ones...)
ReplyDeleteChili, I'll bet both the lunch and bathroom ones would still apply!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I want a list of the 10 things you say endlessly as a cool teacher of English at the cool charter high school. :)
I'll post my list next week for you! I think you'll be surprised how many of ours are similar, if not in syntax, then certainly in intent....
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