My five-year old students are learning to read.
Yesterday one of them pointed at a picture in a zoo book and said,
"Look at this! It's a frickin' elephant!"
I took a deep breath, then asked..."What did you call it?"
"It's a frickin' elephant! It says so on the picture!"
And so it does...
" A f r i c a n Elephant "
Hooked on phonics! Ain't it wonderful?
9 comments:
You get me every time. I'm sitting here thinking, ok, what do you tell a child about the word "frickin," then, bam, the punchline.
Hi Sylvia,
That was cute; a nice way to kick off the weekend.
Have a great one!
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Oh Sylvia, you have outdone yourself this time!! And I'm laughing so hard I can barely type and my face feels like it made of rubber...!
Now that is funny. Sylvia did you hear about Braja's car accident on the way to the airport? Here is the link for updates
http://www.prabhupada.org/rama/?p=4422
Just too funny!!!
LOL! Cute! :-)
Too funny. Good one.
ROFL! Excellent and clever; we are innocent until proven guilty after all.
This reminded me that my mother used to pick up my niece from childcare, and one day my sister (the child's mother) picked her up instead. "What the hell are you doing here?" my 3-year-old niece asked. Nobody else heard, but my (very young) sister had to ask her, "WHAT did you say?" in a tone that drew everyone's attention so they could hear my niece repeat, loudly and clearly, "I SAID, what the hell are you doing here?" We all learned that day to never ask for a repeat performance...just MOVE ALONG quickly!
So I'm laughing again now!
As a retired teacher I have to say this is priceless!
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