Bowl of Peas

My class has workbook pages where they have to draw pictures for words or phrases, which shows me wether they're reading the words correctly or not. They're usually right on, but last week I had a case of misinterpretation that had me rolling over in laughter.

When I dismissed for lunch, one of my 1st graders came up to me and was all excited. They wanted to show off a picture they had drawn during class. They said to me, "Teacher, I drew a picture of the Leaning Tower of Pisa!" I was shocked. I didn't even think they knew what that was. I took the book to look at the picture, and was confused (b/c being the good teacher I am, I did not look at the word they were suppose to draw). They said, "Get it, the Leaning Tower of PEAS!!" ah ah ha ha ha haha ha haah and started laughing and laughing. Then I laughed at the ability they had to do a play on words.




My other 1st grader looked a little distraught. They said, "Oh, I didn't draw that. I thought it was "peace", and I didn't know how to draw that, so I drew "Peace and Quiet." (See Below:)

Oh My Word!! When I saw this I literally could not see b/c I had tears streaming out of my eyes. I quickly told them they had to line up for lunch b/c I didn't want my student to think I was laughing AT the drawing that was done "incorrectly". They went to the lunch room, and I high-tailed it down the hall to where this student's mom's class is. (Ugh....just to claify - the mom isn't a student - the mom is the teacher! ok - I just thought there might be some confusion there!) I told her the story, which was hard to do b/c I wasn't breathing real well, and there was laughing and snorting going on. Then I showed her the "Peace" picture and she had the SAME reaction. We were laughing soooo hard.

Then she said, we have to show the Pre-K teacher. She of course has radar ears (love you Pre-K teacher), and yells down the hallway -- "WHAT ARE YOU SAYING ABOUT ME??!!!" :D (That's an on-going joke, b/c we always assure her we don't talk behind her back, we talk about her right in front of her. She's always saying to us -- "I'M RIGHT HERE!!!") So she comes in the class, and I go through the story again and she has the same exact reaction.

Then she said, we have to show the K-5 teacher (who is the mom of "Leaning Tower of Peas"). So she comes in the classroom, and after going through the whole story has the same exact reaction.

You know how the Bible says, laughter doeth good like a medicine. Well - we were pretty healthy after all of that let me tell you. :D

A few funny points - The "Peace and Quiet" drawing came from the pastor's kid, which got huge jokes like, Hmmmm, what does the pastor do at his house!?? ha ha (All in good fun - don't think we jab our pastor or anything!) The whole image came from a short scene in Kong fu Panda where there's meditating.

I don't know if I did it justice, but hopefully, you were able to at least chuckle!