Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Horses Make...

During storytime today I read several of my favorite read-aloud stories, including David Shannon's Duck on a Bike.  On each page Duck greets a different barnyard animal while riding his bike, and each animal responds with the appropriate animal noise.  As I read this book I usually prompt my audience to supply the animal sounds.

When we go to the page where Duck meets Horse, I asked the kids what sound a horse makes.  The crowd went "neigh," just as expected.  As the sound was dying down a little girl, four years old, sat up a little straighter and proudly announced:

"Horses make glue!"

All of the grown-ups in the room - myself included - had to try really hard to keep from cracking up.  

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