Cute Little Sayings These Days by None Other Than Miss Em

Peckeroni Pizza = Combo of the words Pepperoni and Macaroni (attempting to use multi-syllable words...way to go!). She really and truly means pepperoni.

Racroon = From book: The Kissing Hand...a Raccoon

Band Aid = Rubber Band to place around a pile of something to keep it all together...books or something else...I can't remember

Evee-where-wee = Everywhere

When she was telling me about a little boy cutting up in her classroom and getting into trouble, I asked, "Why do you think he acts this way?"
Her response, "Maybe his mommy not teach him good behavior."
She noticed that I noticed she used the word 'behavior'.

After her field trip to the Pumpkin Patch, she was telling me how the truck driver (? possibly the person driving the wagons out into the field) took the pumpkins to the bus so they wouldn't have "to fool with them".
That's sure fire the way I speak. I chuckled.
She commented on how I noticed that she used that terminology.

Spare me from the short e sound in our language. YOU try to help a little Chinese girl distinguish between want & went, well & will.
As for sight words.....OH.MY.GOSH.
H-A-V-E is have (short a sound) but G-A-V-E is gave (long a sound). Spare me, pleeeez.

Thank you Mr. Whoever You Are that wrote Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons and founder of FUNNIX computer program. Where would we be without you? I'll send you a Valentine. Hope your wife won't mind. (...and yes. These programs ARE phonics based!)

We read about 3 books a day. Right now we're listening to The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe for the 3rd time. She saw the movie on tv and loves it...so when listening to it, she already has the visual in her mind of who the characters are, etc. This has been a phenomenal learnning experience for her. She has me stop the tape about every 30 seconds and asks me a specific question. GREAT strategy for language development, characterization, vocab...you name it.

You are correct. I said TAPE. I'm the owner of the only car in America that has a tape player and no CD player. Behind the times? Yep. Do I care? Nope.
White trash?
Hmpf!
Perish the thought!!