During a science activity lesson, students were required to label the different parts of a mushroom (stalk, gills & cap).

Student, Qian Yan, quickly wrote ‘stalk’ and ‘gill’ and left the ‘cap’ part blank as he had forgotten its name.

QY: Help! This is a….?
Teacher: Try to think. Ms Lina just explained it to you.
QY: Starts with the letter….?
Teacher: C
QY: and after C, letter?
Teacher: I can’t tell you the answer. You have to think and recall.

Teacher saw that QY was struggling to recall the word so teacher pats his head to prompt the word ‘cap’.

QY touched his head and patted his very short spikey hair. He thought deeply for a few minutes and wrote the answer.

‘CACTUS’

Overheard @ Science Room by Marina

Teacher and student were sitting in the DJ Booth watching the secondary boys playing soccer in the field.

Daniel: Ms Marina, Marcus told me that he wants to talk to you later.
Teacher: Yeah, I’ll go talk to him after this DJ programme first.

15 minutes later…

Daniel: Ms Marina, I think Marcus wants to talk to you now.
Teacher: what? for real? Daniel.. how can you possibly hear what Daniel said when we are all the way over here in this room and he’s on the opposite side of the field?
Daniel: Oh.. Because I’m good in charades.

Overheard @ DJ Booth by Marina

Ms Phyllis: … so when animal is no longer in this world, we call them extinct. No more! Bye Bye… it’s very sad.
Marcus: OH i know! my grandmother is extinct!
Ms Phyllis: How can your grandmotherbe extinct???????
Marcus: Because she’s gone from this world. No more! Bye Bye… and mummy was very sad.

Overheard by Marina

Clement: I want to play the piano
Me: No. the piano is meant for those who can play the piano. Can you play the piano?
Clement: Yes!
Me: ok.. show me how.
Clement: (pretends to be playing a piano in the air) GLANG GLANG GLANG GLANG GLANG….

Overheard by Marina