it's quite possible that you had to be there . ..

Yesterday, I had the 4th graders "play game" as they like to put it. They were practicing their prepositions, so I took a boy and a girl from each team, and would make a statement "the boy is in front of the girl" and the first team to achieve it would win.

I decided to mix it up by saying "the boy is between two girls." Challenging because I only picked two kids each to play the game. Ian, the sly little devil, figured it out quickly and got between his team mate and a girl from another team. Kevin, was a second behind, getting between his team mate and my nearly asleep T.A.

Kevin's team tried to declare victory. Ian, in a rare moment of clear English, shot them down. "She's not a girl, she's a woman."

That now tops Larry's invention of a dance called "The Beijing Duck" as the funniest thing to happen in English all year.