how do you spell crap?

My kids manage to give me a good laugh once in awhile. I have a system for asking questions in my English S+ class: a fist shows that they are done, one finger means a general question, and five fingers means a spelling question. Ray raised his hand with five fingers and asked, "Ms. Mary, how do you spell crap?" Um, excuse me?? I don't think that I heard that right, especially since I have never heard a single child in the first grade use that word. "Crap? Are you sure?" I asked. "Yes. How to spell?" replied Ray. 

Then it hits me. Crab! Ah, showed me that we need to do some major phoneme work. And to celebrate this, let me share some hidden gems from this last week's homework:

"I drank coffee." What kind of 6-year-old drinks coffee in the morning?!?!

I loved this because there are no frills. Straight forward: "One mid-autmn break I will watch movie. I will eat moon cake. I will see the moon. I will go outside to eat food."

Okay, so the assignment was to write 5 sentences about what you will do for the mid-autumn break (7 vacation days). This student wrote: "I will get ready for the next class." Hum, fun break.

"I will see the roundest moon." Obviously there is more than one moon to see.

The spelling word was supposed to be pick for number 6.

"I pick my nose." True, so true!

"You like doll pig." Um, okay then. I have no idea what that is, but I'm sure it is great.

Some deep questions were being asked in this assignment: "Can a dog be a pet?", "Can the elephant be a mat?", and "Can the king be a teacher?" 

Oh, Jerry Ma. The flirt of first grade. He wrote, "Can I kiss your mouth?" Well, it is grammatically accurate. He also wrote, "Can I touch your squirrel?"

"My mom grow a car." She must be an impressive gardener.

"I like America. What a great day." Bam! Oh, yeah! Good job, America!

No explanation needed.