If you are a teacher, I have a question. How many times have you sat in the lounge with your colleagues and shared a really funny thing that happened? Then you went on to say, "You know, we should write a book!" I think all teachers say that at one point or another. I think it would be fun for us to share those funny things with each other here. I'll go first. The other day I was having the kids make a lists in their writer's notebooks. I wanted them to make a list of their pet peeves. So....I did this whole lesson and discussion on what a pet peeve was and shared some of my own. I asked if anyone had questions and there were none. I turned on the music and sat down at my desk to write in my own notebook. Everyone got busy. However, when I looked up, one little guy was not writing at all. I went over and whispered, "What's up? Need some help?" "Well", he said, "I don't have anything to write. We don't have any pet peeves. All we have is dogs." Maybe that is only funny to a teacher but I thought is was pretty cute at the time. Of course, there are millions more that happen every day in every classroom. What a wonderful job we have!