In the Jungle...

My first day of student teaching, I walked around the room as the normal teacher was doing the lesson.  The lesson for the day was on tree rings, about how the trees grew a new layer every growing season (about one a year) so that you could tell how old a tree was.  When the lesson was finished, their assessment was to color a picture of tree rings and count them.

I walked around the room watching as the kids colored.  Most of the stumps were brown, tan, yellow, etc.  One little boy, however, was coloring wildly with every color known to man and a few that I'm pretty sure were new. 

I asked him, "Bub, what's wrong with your tree?" in a joking manner.

Without looking up, he replied, without hesitation, "Mine's gots Jungle Fever!"

I had to walk outside my first half hour of teaching just to laugh.