Re: Funny 1st grade stories

Posted by Chad Elduke on 5/26/03

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On 4/18/03, tj wrote:
> Sort of a funny story/sort of a chicken question:
>
> Years ago, when I was student teaching 1st grade, I read a
> book to the kids about a chicken who wasn't laying eggs, so
> her owners got her a friend and then she laid eggs.
>
> Not being much of a chicken person, I wasn't sure what this
> meant. I wasn't sure if they meant the friend had to be a
> rooster -- it didn't look like a rooster in the
> illustration. And since I know that chickens lay
> unfertilizerd eggs all the time, I didn't really think a
> rooster was necessary for egg laying and I wondered if
> maybe it was just supposed to be a companionship thing.
>
> Anyway, I intended to sort of gloss over it all when one
> well-informed little girl let everyone know that it HAD to
> be a rooster because you had to be married to get babies.
> Then another little girl piped up saying that couldn't be
> true, since her aunt had just had a baby and she wasn't
> married.
>
> Talk about having to make a quick transition to another
> subject...
>
> That's the same day I fielded the question, "Which came
> first, God or dinosaurs?"




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Posts on this thread, including this one

• Funny 1st grade stories, 4/18/03, by tj.
• Re: Funny 1st grade stories, 5/26/03, by Chad Elduke.