In School Today...

My class loves to jump in with random comments no matter what we are talking about. Today we were talking about words that end in -ade and -aid and how they sound similar but are spelled differently. For example the words lemonade and mermaid. So I was having students come up with different example words that sound like these and we were deciding which spelling was correct. So one boy mentions the word "masquerade." Great vocab word. So we talked about the spelling and the meaning of the word. Then one girl piped up and mentioned, "That word reminds me of mascara." Then another boy said, "Oh yeah, isn't that the stuff that goes on your lips?" I just started laughing out loud. It was just so funny the way he said it. It was like he was thinking, 'Oh I totally know all those make-up terms and I am going to show you that I know them!' The class laughed along with me and I assured the boy we were not making fun of him. He also laughed and knew we meant no harm.

This reminded me of my friend Alisa's post about her husband not knowing what mascara was!!