All About Dogs

This spring, we're working on "All About Books" - basically, subjects that kids are experts on without having to do research (research books are next month).

This student is an expert on dogs (or "bogs", as he put it).

Here is the detail web that he generated for his thinking. Please note that he will write about the dogs playing tag, and playing ball. He knows what dogs eat, and how to walk them. And then there's that fourth catagory...

[Take a moment and click the link above if you haven't yet.... what IS that fourth catagory? Scroll down for the answer]

































"So, Levi," I said. "What's that other one say?"

He looked at me like I was crazy. "Shtricks, Mr. Gwham. They do shtricks! Like jumping, and wolling [sic] over!"

YES.

B-I-S-H

Coming back from lunch, one of my students with a mild speech problem had something very urgent to tell me:

"Missr [sic] Gwham, Missr Gwahm! That kid (here he's pointing at a new student in my class) was saying bad words at lunch! He was saying the B word!"

At this point, I think I know what the B word is, but really? First graders?

"Yeah, B-I-S-H!"

While it is hilarious that "bish" is EXACTLY how this student would pronounce the aforementioned B word (yay for spelling practice!), what KILLED me was that one of my quiet little proper Vietnamese girls leaned over and told him firmly,

"Levi, it's spelled B-I-T-C-H"

That was a laugh-behind-the-upheld-paper moment.