Sweet Card

One of my 2nd grade girls wrote such a cute message in her end-of-the-year card to me!

I love you Mrs. Rinn. I hope it is a girl, but it is okay if it is a boy. All babies are great.

Funny Quotes

This week, I started telling my students at school that I wouldn't be coming back as their music teacher next year. I was surprised at how much many of my students knew about adoption, and it was neat to be able to share (at an elementary level) why Dave & I are adopting.

Of course, a lot of the kids had questions or comments about it...several of them were so funny that I had to share. It'd be even better if you knew the background of the students making these comments, but hopefully you'll still get a good laugh.

Mrs. Rinn: ....so, that is why I won't be your music teacher next year.

(tons of hands shoot up)...here's a sampling of what came next:


--If you won't be working, how will you keep your family out of debt?

--My baseball team won the championship.

--Ummm, I don't get it...is the baby inside of you or not?

--My family went to Padre Island, and I got some more rocks for my rock collection.

and, my favorite one of all:
--Will you miss us when you're gone?

Minnesota, that wimpy state!

My third grade students are preparing for their program, “A Musical Tribute to Texas,” which they will present on March 10. One of their pieces is the Texas state anthem, “Texas, Our Texas.”

The students were rehearsing the state anthem yesterday when I stopped them to discuss the lyrics. I referred to the line “Boldest and grandest, withstanding ev’ry test, O Empire wide and glorious, you stand supremely blest”

I asked, “What does boldest and grandest mean?” The students discussed how Texas was strong, great, mighty, etc. Then I said, “Well, right now neither your singing or your posture show that you are singing about a strong & mighty state. You look and sound like you’re singing about a wimpy state.”

At this point, one of the boys yells out, “Yeah, a wimpy state like Minnesota!”

I wasn’t sure if he knew that I was from Minnesota or not, so I pretended to get very offended. I started going on and on about how I was born and raised in Minnesota, and how dare he say that Minnesota was a wimpy state!

I think I actually scared him a little…and then he stopped me and said, “Mrs. Rinn, I’m so sorry! I didn’t know you were from Minnesota. I just said that because of the Vikings!”

Halloween!

My team members and I dressed up as dalmations for Halloween on Friday at school! A lot of our students asked us if we were cats(?)...but at least we thought we were cute! You can't see in this picture, but we also had adorable tails!