Dad's Occupation

One of the boys in my class has a father who works with the major league baseball team in town. On Friday there was a game, and the boy looked up and told me he wouldn't see his father that night because his dad had to do liver stories. He repeated it, liver stories, that he had to count and do math and make sure everything was right. Ah...INVENTORIES. makes sense.

Religious Terms

As we were doing journals last week, one young spoke in her story of a character who "Signed up the Cross". I was a little confused, but kept writing. A few minutes later I realized she was referring to the "Signs of the Cross".

What is a marine?

At the park today, the kids were intriuged when a group of marines stopped from their morning jog and began to do exercises on the playground equiptment. They were in the middle of doing chin ups, pull ups, etc. when one young boy exclaimed to his friend "those are the strong boys who like to eat hot dogs!". The school had a yard sale the previous weekend and apparently lots of these strong boys came by for hot dogs.