In my class, we have a couch at our rug area. To decide who sits on it when we all head over there, I pick a student who is really on-task and ready to go. They then pick a friend, so on and so on until there are 5 people. There has to be as equal as we can get on boys and girls, 3 and 2 or 2 and 3. So...as you can imagine, picking someone of the opposite gender is big deal in 3rd grade....We have lots of talks on "being mature".
So...today. I picked a student, a boy, so sit on the couch. He then picked a friend, and so on until it was a boy's turn to pick. This happens to be a very witty boy (see "I'm thinkin' Arby's" post from the past). He said, "I pick Mrs. Cox...because she's my BFF!"
Then a chorus rang out of, "Yeah, Best Friends Forever..."
"Yeah...Best Funny Friend..."
Until, "Best Female Friend"...which prompted the boy to associate female with girl...and blurt out, "Yeah, Best Girlfriend!" UhOh! His face went SO RED (keep in mind this kid is NEVER embarrassed in the slightest...) as the thought occurred to him that he just referred to the teacher as his "Best Girlfriend". We laughed for a good long time....poor thing!
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That is a crack up. Poor little guy, I don't think that his friends will ever let him live it down. you know when he is in high school his buddies will be telling him that his first girl friend (girlfriend) was Mrs. Cox.
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