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I work with first graders .... they can be very smelly after lunch. However, today, we were talking about things we can smell. The activity was to draw a picture of something you can smell and then print 'good' or 'bad'. I have a zero tolerance policy for potty talk in the classroom as it takes so darn long to get ALL OF US settled down once the conversation is started. Thus, a student approached me with a drawing, and I will say an excellent drawing, of one of her smelly male classmates; a classmate that is quite proud of what he can produce after lunch in my classroom. Behind the butt of the student in the drawing was a 'cloud'. I was asked 'Miss Deb, is this okay?' Starting to stifle a giggle I asked 'how would you feel if this was a picture of you?' Well, there was some hemming and hawing and finally she said 'not good' followed by 'but, Miss Deb, see I think its okay because he is happy in the picture'. As Art Linkletter would say ..... kids say the darndest things.

Deb