Teacher Things

Things I hear as a teacher or accidentally do

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@XUAthletics This is the goodest boy, Tank

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I should purchase stock in cough drops

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“I’ll just leave one shoe on so I can type”

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Triple fisting coffee, water, and Dr. Pepper

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I actually said “I don’t know if you deserve me hitting the woah” the other day

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Music can’t exist without math!

4th grader: how do you know that?
Other 4th grader: she went to music school!

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Preparing for the Christmas program

6th grader: We should get a Tesla instead of a donkey

#ITeachMusic #HappyOctober @Tesla

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Two students carried a bucket of yellow liquid down the hall today

Me: whatcha doin?
Student 1: dumping it
Student 2: Science

Did not tell me what the liquid was

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When you hear a random recorder noise from the hallway

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Removing spiders should be in my job description

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“What I have enjoyed about choir so far is that we have gotten to know our new music teacher” 🥰

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Got a haircut yesterday and one of my students asked “what’s wrong with your head?”

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Heard in the next classroom over: “it’s a cricket on a stick!”

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A fellow teacher walked up to me and asked “is it sad that it’s only 9:32 and I want a drink?”

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At 11:30 a 6 year old taps me on the shoulder and says “I’m hangry”

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Let’s try something today

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The ladies in the handchimes group started playing our song on their own, and played the whole thing pretty well without my help at all! Such a proud music teacher moment

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Found a large spider in my classroom... the other teachers just said “welcome to the country. We also get snakes”

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A little kindergarten boy pointed at me walking down the hallway, gasped, and said “it’s the music teacher!”

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I have a pig shaped door stop, and let my kindergarteners pet it on the way in

As one girl pets it, she yells “we slaughtered our pigs yesterday!”

#ruralteaching