That's One Big Diaper!

Hilarious Kid Quips, part I
My last blog made me think that I seriously need to be documenting some of the entertaining things my students say on a daily basis. Get ready, here is my first installment.

A couple days ago, I was working with one of my hispanic students. He has only been in the country for one year, but is learning English quite well. This little 8 year old boy is so cute, he has the chubbiest cheeks, glasses and the cutest little accent.

We are required to test their reading fluency weekly by seeing how many words they can read in 1 min. from a short story. This time, the story was called "Satellites." He begins reading, and soon, the story introduces the "big dipper" and the "little dipper." Well, the story repeats these words several times, and Alex pronounces the word dipper as "diaper" each time. The little diaper this, the big diaper that. I had a little chuckle to myself, but he didn't seem phased by the mistake.

At the end, I congratulated him on his reading and he sat there and stared at me for a minute, like he was thinking really hard. Finally, he looks at me with a serious face and says, "Mrs. Vala, why there is a big diaper and why there is a little diaper in the sky at night? There are no babies in the sky." Hehehe...of course I set him straight, but the whole time I couldn't help but think of those wheels turning in his brain, seeing these two diapers in the sky.

A couple weeks ago, this same student was so excited to raise his hand when I asked who could spell the word "check." I called on him and he proudly spouted out c-h-e-c-k. Before I could get a word in, he enthusiastically and pridefully told the class that he knows how to spell check because every Saturday he and his family go to "Check City," (hmmm....interesting.)