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DD2 (Yr 1) came out of school today and said

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lougle · 09/01/2013 21:40

"Mum, did you know we have guns in our body?" I was and said 'what?' "Guns Mum. We have guns in our body." Even more confused, I asked 'what do guns do?' "I dunno, help us breathe I think."

Her teacher had been talking to her about lungs.

Is that sort of mishearing normal in Yr 1?

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mrz · 09/01/2013 21:41

Oh yes

Needathickerskin · 09/01/2013 21:43

Yep. Dinosaurs lived in the Oldham days according to my yr 1 ds....

Tgger · 09/01/2013 21:46

Fantastic! .

realcoalfire · 09/01/2013 21:50

LOL DD said on Monday she had a supply teacher called Mrs Wet-through, turned out to be Renfrew!

noisytoys · 09/01/2013 21:54

DD (reception) calls the deputy head the liberty head

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lougle · 09/01/2013 21:54

I'm still trying to convince her that there is no reindeer called 'Cubit' and that the said reindeer is actually called 'Cupid', but she gets insanely furious with me every time I correct her.

Oh, and when she sings the CHRISTMAS song, she sings "....M is for the Misletoe where everyone is kissed, A is for the Angels who make the Christmas list, C is for the Santa..."

DD2 it's 'S' is for the Santa.

Noooo Mummy because 'C' can be a C sound or a S sound, so it's S.

Well, so it might be, but in this case it's S is for the Santa.

You're wrong, Mummy....

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Virgil · 09/01/2013 21:56

We had " a palm tree in a pear tree" lots over Christmas.

wigglywoowoo · 09/01/2013 22:01

Not quite the same but we had "Why are the 6 geese laying 5 gold rings?"

silverfrog · 09/01/2013 22:02

dd2 was in an Activity Play last term.

yes, cute. but she cn read the fecking word! and will still swear blind that the one she was in was an Activity play (but Mrs X said so!) and not at all the same as the Christmas story she made us read we read to her every night in December and has the word 'Nativity' written onthe front...

in a similar-but-not-really incident (similar as in is about quirky dd2s!) this morning I dropped my cereal packet when reaching for the dds' cereal. big noise, big mess.

dd2 pipes up 'that's lucky that you didn't spill our cereal, mummy, as otherwise what would I eat?' even when I somewhat sarcastically said 'oh isn't it lucky? nevermind about what I am going to eat...' she didn't bat an eyelid.

dd1 says 'oh, but what's mummy going to eat for breakfast. oh, spilt the cereal. oh no'

how come I have a severely autistic child with more empathy than my (supposedly) NT one?!

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lougle · 09/01/2013 22:05

It's scary, isn't it, Silverfrog?

DD2 was playing with her mashed potato yesterday. She said 'ooh it looks like a boat' as she pushed it around her plate.

I absent-mindedly said 'well can it sail into your mouth, please?'

She replied 'No, of course not, there's no water.'

That's my girl.

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FannyBazaar · 09/01/2013 22:16

My DS came home from school last year in year 2 to tell me that the mother of one of his classmates came to school with the Olympic torch and she also was one of the runners in the mens 100 metre final alongside Usain Bolt. 'But DS it was the mens 100m and S's mother is a woman', 'yes, I know but she ran the race and won it'. OK .

I think the person who came to school was neither the mother of a classmate nor running in the mens 100m final although she may well have been an athlete.

Bunnyjo · 09/01/2013 22:18

We had " a palm tree in a pear tree" lots over Christmas.

Oh that made me giggle. DD's version went 'Five golden rings, four calling birds, three French men, two turtle dogs and a partridge chicken pear tree'

After I practically wet myself laughing I had a giggle, I showed her the lyrics. Now, she can sing it word perfect and for bloody hours at a time, even in January!

silverfrog · 09/01/2013 22:25

dd2 has just (as in this evening, not just as in just now!) finished making a crafty thing she got for Christmas.

the finishing touches involved sticky foam shapes all put together to look like various sea creatures.

she seemed very determined as to what she was going to stick on, and I let her get on with it (after describing all the possibilities having squinted at the various shapes available...). I was somewhat distracted as was feeding ds, doing dd1's homework etc etc.

as she proudly declared herself done, I looked up, and saw that she had copied exactly what was shown on the box

she is really crafty, and quite imaginative with it, but just cannot not follow what she sees as instructions (the animals and colours used were not what she would have chosen at all, and she clearly did it that way as she thought she had to, despite me running through all the options...)

still, on the positive side, as I collected her form her after school craft club today, I did get a knowing (harassed) look from the teacher (her form teacher) and a 'it needs a bit of finishing off - she was doing well, but it did take some time for her to be happy with each stage' - hahahahahahahahahahhahahahaha - finally noticed her insistence on perfection, then?!

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lougle · 09/01/2013 22:32

I asked DD2 if she wanted me to sign her up for dance kids this term (half-term 1 was a disaster - she refused to go on week 2 because on week 1 she was told she couldn't eat all of her snack because she was taking too long; half-term 2 was sort of ok, but the teacher had words with me on 3 weeks out of 5 because DD2 just did what she wanted to without telling the teacher, because of course she would know; half-term 3 she was off sick for most of it).

DD2 frowned, then said "will I get hot?" Well, quite possibly, DD2, you'll be dancing. "Then I don't want to. I don't like getting hot."

Well that's the dancing career over, then.

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SavoyCabbage · 09/01/2013 22:33

"Australians all eat sausages, for we are young and free"

First line of the Australian National anthem, not Australians all let us rejoice, no, not that.

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lougle · 09/01/2013 22:34

Oh completely understand that, Silver. I have to tell DD2 a rule (ie. don't tell tales), then tell her when she can break the rule (if someone is bleeding, dying, or doing something dangerous or very naughty).

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silverfrog · 09/01/2013 22:42

blimey, lougle -what is it about getting hot?! dd2 has an aversion to it too.

she has cold baths (or would if we let her - screams blue murder if we try to put any amount of hot water in), won't wear a jumper or coat, even if turning blue, the list goes on.

one morning last term I pulled her jumper off the radiatior where it had been drying overnight and shoved it over her head (the radiator wasn't on, but was cooling down having been on - resulting in lovely snuggly warm jumper, imo). she visible froze, and you could see her trying to shrink away from everywhere the jumper was touching her - major meltdown all the way to school over ebing 'boiling '. her rage was palpable.

wonkylegs · 09/01/2013 22:49

In our house my reception aged DS swears blindly that the song he's been dancing to round the house is .... Grandad Style....hey Sixty ladies
He listens to is over & over and swears blind that that's what it says
TBH I prefer DSs version

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lougle · 09/01/2013 22:49

Oh yes, DD2 rarely comes out of school with her coat on or her cardigan on. In fact, she has lost 2 of the 3 school cardigans she had. The hairdryer has to be on cool and positioned far away. Even if she has a meltdown the first complaint as she's calming down is 'I'm hot!'

Mind you, DD1 used to sleep absolutely naked except for a nappy, with no covers and a fan on, even in winter. She wouldn't entertain any other way until she was 2.9 and had to have a 24 EEG. She hated the leads so much she let me put a pair of pyjamas on and from that day onwards she would wear PJs and covers

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silverfrog · 09/01/2013 22:52

dd2's school jumper is worn so rarely (only really in the mornings - if brought home - as I make her!) that I only bought one for the year... no point wasting money on items that won't be used...

neither of my dds will use a blanket/duvet. they both sleep on just a bottom sheet. I had similar (no) pyjama issues, but forced them through it - now they wear fleece onsies, even in summer

YellowShoes · 09/01/2013 22:57

Dt's both insist its farmer Christmas, who brings the presents :)

PelvicFloorClenchReminder · 09/01/2013 22:57

wonky I much prefer your DS's version too!

FannyBazaar · 09/01/2013 23:19

Wonkylegs loving Grandad Style. Might try to convince my DS that it really is sixty ladies, tried to convince him that the song is so last year but he's not having any of that.

TodaysAGoodDay · 09/01/2013 23:21

My DS in Yr 1 came home singing 'two turtle ducks' instead of 'two turtle doves' in the 12 days song

MegBusset · 09/01/2013 23:31

In DS1's version of Gangnam Style it's "Hey, sixer leaders... Frankenstein!" When he came home singing it after the school Christmas disco it took us hours to work out what he was on about.

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