Why I Love First Graders

Today while I was teaching guided reading to my cute little first grade students, I heard a great comment.

We were reading a book called "Magpie's Baking Day," which is very similar to the story of the Little Red Hen, except instead of a Hen, there is a Magpie. So during the book Magpie asks his friends, "Who will go and get the milk for me?" and other similar requests for help.

To which my dear sweet student commented, "She's lazy!"

And to think, this whole time I thought the moral of that story was that you have to help in order to reap the rewards. Nope, I guess the real moral is: Don't help your friends that are just being lazy. Good to know.