Ummmm, Mrs. Delano...

I never write about the funny things my kids say or the questions they ask, but today I just found this to be humorous. Please remember that I teach 5th grade Science.

Today we began our unit on acids and bases. It was my last class of the day, they just finished snack and were a little wound up. I introduced the lesson by asking "Does anyone know what an acid is, or has anyone ever heard of an acid?" Well of course the hands went up and one discussion led to another, some ideas got way off track as others were right on target. I had one student bring up stomach acids from previous lessons on the human body systems. We got into the discussion of how it is neat that our stomach acid helps break down food and if it leaked into our body it would be extremely dangerous and life threatening, but that God created the walls and lining of our stomach to be able to maintain the stomach acids.

We got back on track to the chemistry part of acids and bases and moved on to vocabulary. As the kids were writing their terms, one of my very humorous female students came to my desk. She stood before me very awkardly and said "Ummmm, Mrs. Delano, if our stomach acids are so strong, and a woman has a baby in her stomach, how come the baby doesn't get eaten by the acids?" I had to maintain my composure, and told her that babies are not in the stomach. She gave me the most confused and terrified look I have ever seen (we do not cover the reproductive system in 5th grade in detail). Then she said..."but what, where, whhwhh"...