Last post from summer camp... summer is over :(

Random kid: "Where do frogs sit? on toadstools."
Gabriel: "That takes my breath away!"

Gabriel: "My cracker has a crack in it. is that why they are called crackers?"

Fun from the summer! Kids just take everything so seriously... I think they are confused when we laugh at them

Gabriel: "My grandmother guards the house against ants, but they still get in and she kills them with a bug spray."

Gabriel: "Thanks Mrs. Dude!" Generally he just calls me Miss Laura.

Teddy is carrying a basketball over his head and drops it on himself. Teachers ask him if he is okay, he says he is fine then he says, "It gived me a shower."

I brought the kids outside to color with chalk and a couple of the boys were no longer interested in the chalk and found a window where they could watch the 6-7 year old kids play a sport. They started commentating. "Red team has it again." "Wow Number 4 has the ball!"

Me: "It is getting too loud in here. Hummingbirds, please use your inside voices."
They quiet down, then blocks fall on the floor.
Gabriel: "The blocks don't know they are supposed to use their inside voices."

I put sparkly star stickers by my eyes after a craft."
Max: "I like the treasures on your face!"

There was a kid wearing green face paint from another class.
Reuben: "Well, he looks like a wicked witch."
Gabriel: "Wicked witches don't exist..." With a question in his voice.

Teacher: "Theodore."
Me: "Theodore doesn't exist." Because he moved to a different class.
Gabriel: "Did THeodore die?"
Me: "No."
Gabriel: "But if he doesn't exist that means he dies."
Unfortunately, we don't cover meaning, existence, life and death in summer camp.

Me: "Once I was sledding and I went under a fence and into the middle of a street by accident."
Gabriel: "Did you die?"

Kids are still funny

Nelson: "Miss Laura, today is my last day of camp."
Nelson, an hour later: "Miss Laura, today is my last day of camp."
Nelson, two hours after that: "Miss Laura, today is my last day of camp."
The next day
Me: "Oh, Nelson won't be here today because yesterday was his last day. Wouldn't it be funny if he showed up anyway today because he was confused about when he was leaving for vacation?"
Mr. Tom: "Haha."
Two minutes later...
Nelson walks in.
Nelson: "Good morning Miss Laura."
Tom and I start laughing.
Me: "What are you doing here Nelson?"
Nelson: "I forgot that today was my last day."
Nelson preceded to tell me several times that today was really his last day of camp for the summer throughout the day.

I work at a day camp... and kids are too funny

I will call my group the Hummingbirds for the purpose of this. They are all 4 or 5 years old.

Me: Hummingbirds, time to line up!
Teddy: I'm not a hummingbird, I'm a person.
Me: But you are in the hummingbird group.
Teddy: Why?
Another time he told another teacher that he is a teddy, not a hummingbird.

The teacher taking attendance: Is Christian here?
He points to a student named Reuben.
Teacher: Are you Christian?
Reuben: No, I'm Jewish.
All the teacher start laughing.

Me: Do your mother's take you swimming in the pools or the ocean sometimes?
Gabriel: Well...Well.... I think the ocean is too dangerous for children.

Priceless.