Mrs. Dingman-isms
June 2009
This page was last updated on: October 22, 2015
Throughout the 2008/2009 school year, there were expressions and phrases repeated often in our classroom. Children created lists of their favorites, contributing to those shown below.
I wish my 2008-2009 5th grade class every future success.
It has been my privilege to be your teacher!
flying monkeys could come into the bus, take your homework, and fly right out the window… it could happen!
crystal clear?!
I can’t even count to four today
if I stand on a chair to staple the rest of the bulletin board… and I fall… help me get up AFTER you stop laughing
who hasn’t shut the lights this week? … who hasn’t closed the door this week?
how DO you remember the order you placed your papers face down?
read & quiz… read & quiz… and you know… read & quiz
done? for real? give your paper to Mrs. D.
catch-up? ketchup?
wink, wink… nudge, nudge
girls don’t sweat… girls glisten
oldie but a goody
this year’s Chinese New Year celebrated the Year of the Ox…
in 5th grade we celebrate the Year of Crack the Books
true dat
OK… a little hyperbole
please don’t pull on my sleeve and whine “I don’t get it”
God love me today
got any blueberry muffins?
yeah… I’m looking at you OVER the top of my glasses
I have the attention span of a flea today
PLUG IN THE LAPTOPS
no mental math
WOW!!! That’s all I can say… WOW!!
have you seen your vocab cards lately? have you checked… Oh, I don’t know… in your FILE BOX?!
want to be the guinea pig?
log off and try again
SERIOUSLY??!!
frowny face
name & date
goin’ once… goin’ twice… SOLD!
who cleared that airplane for take-off? Oh, wait… that’s just the laptop burning a CD
By George, I think we’ve got it! … who is George?!
that’s not an “ooooppppps I forgot”
put your cover sheet in the recycle bin and I will love you forever
sweep… scoop… you know with the fancy “pencil shavings on the floor cleaner-upper”
remind me later… 13 seconds from now I’ll remember you had a question… but probably not what the question was!
Spell Check doesn’t understand context
don’t swing from the lights
announcements can start anytime now
let me rinse the chalk off my hands… you’d tell me if I had some on my nose… right??
yeah.. I DID eat all the watermelon Jolly Ranchers
groovy, fantastic flash cards
ask for 2 boxes of tissues… tell Mrs. Burns we’re a sniffly bunch
don’t crush my spirit
come to school… I NEED a new T-shirt
Oh… everybody brought their papers back… isn’t that nice? ‘Cause I make it SO pleasant for you when you don’t!
I’m having a little trip to the tropics
side-door kids skedaddle
what do you mean, the Library is CLOSED??
you’re not going to keel over on me, are you?
where do I take you today?
OK… that 4am typing doesn’t always work out so well
a good leader leads by quiet example
Where IS Laptop #4?
PURPLE… enough said
be the role models… 3rd graders are watching
clear as mud?
my head could pop off… and no, it won’t be pretty
I’ll have to send a firm, but polite email
admit it… you stayed up all night thinking of ways you could dazzle me today
not the word “name”… your name! … not the word “date”… today’s date
a “C’”… a check… a star… a something
fancy schmancy bookmarks
gym is the room… phys ed is the class
decompressors?? no… decomposers… OPEN BOOK? enough said!
who puts up a new bulletin board with only 7 days left of school??
shoo…
this is the icing on the cupcake of my day
INDENT!!
what’s the worst thing I’ll say?
I have the newest, high-tech tool to adjust the heater… get me the “big girl” scissors!
smells lemony in here
I have my woman muscles on
what will we do if I ever start sleeping like a normal person?
You ALL help me learn something new every day
I LOVE my 5th grade