Honesty is something that is very important to me. In my classroom, I make sure that the kids always tell the truth. Sometimes it's hard for them to tell the truth because they know that they might get in trouble. But they know about integrity, and they do a pretty good job telling the truth. Well, this morning I got a little bit more truth than I bargained for. Let me paint the picture for you. Today I wore a brown skirt with a white button-up shirt and my mustard yellow ballet shoes. I had one little girl come up to me and say, "Mrs. Hoffman, you look funny in those shoes!" And the little girl next to her added, "Yeah - (haha) and they don't even match!" Talk about a good start to my day. The kids just say what they're thinking. The other kindergarten teacher has been teaching there longer than I've been alive (seriously), and she told me that one day she bent over and a little kindergarten said, "Oh my Gosh! That is the biggest butt I've ever seen!" She said she went on a diet the very next day.
Sometimes honesty is not what you want to hear.
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You just gotta love what those little darlings say! When I was teaching, I was leaning over a desk to help a student, and another one started tapping me repeatedly. I very firmly told him not to tap me, and he informed me that he was just trying to tell me that he could see my "underpants." Nice.
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