Saturday, January 26, 2008

Hooked on Phonics

A Frickin' Elephant

Jake is five and learning to read. He points at a picture in a zoo book and says, "Look Mama! It's a frickin' elephant!"

Deep breath... "What did you call it?"

"It's a frickin' Elephant, Mama! It says so on the picture!" and so it does...

" A f r i c a n Elephant "

Hooked on phonics! Ain't it wonderful?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Where do you find this stuff? It's hilarious!

Gopher MPH said...

well, this got sent to me by a teacher. Oh, I find it on-line, mostly while looking for something else. The Jesus for Huckabee, though, while funny, led me to find a "Forklift Driver Hans" - a "horror training film". Modeled after a borning occupational safety video, it's a slasher/gore - lots of fake blood as Hans (it's in German) decapitates, impales, squashes, etc. his co-workers. I'm trying to decide whether or not to add it to my blog.