Let me preface this story by saying that last month we studied ‘body parts’ in one of my kiddy classes. Our material had completely left out the booty, and, naturally, the kids asked me what it was in English. I taught them to use the word “bottom”. We always review by me telling them to touch some part of their body. They always like it and one day I had them tell me what to touch. One of the clever boys said, “Teacher, touch your bottom!” He was so proud of himself and all the kids started laughing hysterically. I was just happy that they have all been doing so well! Haha.

So last week we were learning some new vocabulary. We have these cards with cute drawings that explain things like ‘big, bigger, biggest’, ‘short, shorter, shortest’, ‘front, next, last’, ‘top, middle, bottom’, etc. We spent a long time on each card, making sure they understood and could say them correctly.

While we were on the “top, middle, bottom” card, my youngest student yelled out, “Me little bottom!” She, too, was proud of herself and started laughing like crazy. The other kids weren’t sure what to say, because she’s never really made a correlation like that before. A few seconds another boy, who happens to be the same one that told me to touch my bottom, shouts out, “Teacher BIIIIIIIIIIIG bottom!” All of the kids busted out laughing at this and started showing me just how big they thought mine was. It was really funny. I played along with them for awhile, but once my bottom was the same size as the room, I had to make them stop. Hehe.

And I always thought they were looking at the whiteboard when I was writing! Geez, at what age do kids start noticing stuff like that?