Laughing Out Loud!!!

So, before I share my story for today, I want to share with everyone that my students are VERY bright. While they have processing difficulties, they are EACH brilliant in their own way. Not one of them is stupid. They just take things literally when words are spoken to them. Needless to say, at the end of this exchange, we were all laughing, the student included!!!

RockStarPara was working with one of my students this afternoon on his writing assignment. This week we have been focusing on making longer sentences. So many of my students can write "I like Jay", but they can't tell more than that. So, today we were working with them on writing, and had them write who, what, when, where, why, and how on each of their sentences. What followed was priceless:

RockstarPara: "Okay, so put that they did something in the sentence."
The student did just that.
A little while later, I heard her say, "What? Wait, you were supposed to put what they did, not 'they did something'"
I looked at her and she said, "Well, I did tell him to put that that they did something, I just meant that he had to put what they did!"

We laughed. I laughed so hard I had to sit down.

While I may be stressed in some ways with my job, it's moments like that that keep me going...

Life.
Is.
Good.