Humor

[Karen DeFrank <defrank@VOICENET.COM>]

Dear LM_NETters,

I have been reading "My Sister Ate One Hare" to my first graders this week.

It's about a little girl who eats increasing larger numbers of different
creatures (1 hare,  2 ants, 3 snakes, 4  shrews, 5 bats, 6 (I can't
remember!) 7 polliwogs, 8 worms, 9 lizards)
The book is repititious, repeating "We thought she'd throw up then and
there...But She Didn't!"

The last thing she eats is ten peas - and that does it!

To introduce the story, I ask the kids to THINK ( no hands up and no calling
out!!)
THINK of a food that their mother makes for dinner
that they hate SOOOO much
if they HAD to eat it it would make them sick. Then I call on each kid to
tell me ONE thing they can't eat.

Lots of kids say broccoli, fish, meatloaf, or peas, but today
Anthony said, "GUM."
  I said, "You DON'T like gum???"
The kid sitting next to him said, "Your mom makes GUM for dinner?"
And Anthony said, "No, she doesn't make GUM for dinner.  She makes GUM-BO
and I don't like the GUM she puts in it."

I had to leave the group and go into my office to collect myself.

And THAT's why I will never quit being an elementary school  librarian!!!

Karen DeFrank
Dorothy L. Bullock Elementary School
Glassboro, NJ  08028-2024
defrank@voicenet.com

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