Pokey Fun!

Date:  Fall 2009

Gender: Just-turned-four-years-old little guy

Locale:  Green Room

Alias: N

This story was emailed to me today from one of the teachers in the Green Room!  Thanks girl!  I'm just going to copy and paste (though changing any identifying information):

We were sitting at the tables playing with the playdoh.  We're always supposed to be getting language out of them so I asked the kids at my table what they had for dinner the night before.  N spoke up and began telling me a story about how his mom made him porcupine the night before.  (This was at the beginning of school and I didn't know that he was the son of [an affluent member of the community]).  I'm sitting there thinking, Holy Cow, could he really have eaten porcupine last night? LOL..)   I asked him where she got it from and he says, "The back yard."  I said, "How did she kill it?" and he says "She shot it with her gun."  (I'm thinking Holy Cow, I have Annie Okleys son in my class! LOL) I asked him how she cooked it, and he says, "In a frying pan on the stove."   I said, "Isn't porcupine kind of pokey, didn't it hurt your mouth?" His reply, "Nah, she used a knife to scrape the pokeys off."  I asked him if it was good and he says, "Yup! Sure was!"  
 

This whole story was told with extremely expressive face and hand gestures.

Mel's note:  Some of these kids come up with the WILDEST ideas and stories!  We truly wonder sometimes how they come up with such things.  We get the awesome-est giggles out of working and talking with these little people . . . they never cease to amaze me!