I should have never bought that book

Last week our school had it's Book Fair. Our Media Specialist did a wonderful job in creating a "Jungle" theme in our Media Center. It was amazing.


During the week, teachers can make our slips for parents to buy books if they would like to purchase them for our classroom. I usually don't ask for things. If parents want to buy a book, I'm very grateful. However, at our last Book Fair, many parents were upset with me for not choosing books, that this time, I went in and selected a few. I have wonderful and generous parents and all the books were donated to our classroom.


There was one particular book I thought was very cute and it goes along with one of our themes in our Reading Units. I really didn't have time to read them over before selecting. I figured it was Scholastic so it couldn't be that bad.  I chose a book that had to do with fish. I can't recall the title off the top of my head right now. I can post it later.


Today, we had some free time, so I asked my intern if she would like to read a book to our class. I told my students that this book was donated to us from the Book Fair from one of the students in our classroom. Everyone was VERY excited and could hardly wait to hear it. 


The story is about a hungry cat who wants to have dinner. She sees some fish and selects them. When she finds the first fish (male), she named it Lunch and put it into a fishbowl.  She selects a second fish (female) and decides to call this one Dinner. 


The story continues with the Cat telling the fish they were going to be eaten. However, at the end of the story, the two fish fall in love in the fish bowl and make a giant heart out of their bubbles.


Student who selected the book: I can't believe I bought this one! This is disgusting.


I could not stop laughing that they really understood the concept of falling in love. My little one was so disgusted, he made our whole class laugh.


It's amazing what I experience throughout my day as a Kindergarten teacher. Their innosense brings me such joy and laughter on a day to day basis. I really wish I had my laptop with me to captivate all their expressions and small quotes they share with me each day. They have really changed my life for the better.