Aidan has weekly vocabulary words to study at home. In addition to learning the words, he is required to write a sentence using each word in his take home journal. He had a hard time with this assignment at first and begged for help in creating sentences.
In response, I told him to take experiences or people from his life and figure out a way to use his vocab words into sentences that relate to those things. If that failed, try some imagination!
It seemed to work. For a while, Brennan was quite the star of Aidan's sentences.
"My brother Brennan can tell funny jokes."
"I can jump higher than my brother Brennan."
"My brother Brennan likes to make me laugh."
And then I made a surprise appearance in vocab land.
"My mom looks very pretty in dresses."
I would be lying if I didn't admit I was thrilled at my first appearance in his homework.
It quickly lost its luster with this doozy:
"My mom always eats all the donuts."
Hmmmm, not so pleased with that sentence and the assumptions the teacher will make after correcting that doozy. When I asked Aidan about that sentence and the fact, that yes, I have no idea what donuts he is talking about, he replied, "Well mom, you told me to use my imagination."
Great. Doesn't every mother want to be known as a donut hog?
P.S. Can I just add that the donut sentence snuck in on a night when Chris was in charge of reviewing Aidan's work prior to handing it in to school? I feel an urge for some vocab sentences starring the Dad.
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