One day while subbing for a Kindergarten Aide, we were in the middle of reading groups. The teacher had a small group, I had a small group, there was a group on the floor listening to stories on tape, and one group with a mother who was going over letters and objects, and then saying the beginning sound. She was pulling items out of a bag, saying the name of the item, and then they would all say the name of the object together.
The mother who was working with that group was a native speaker of Spanish, and her lilting voice had me enchanted as I half listened to her group going through their bag of goodies:
C is for Car /c/
H is for Hat /h/
D is for Dog /d/
A is for Manzana ..... at this point, you heard the teacher yelling across the classroom: "WAIT! Stop!"
The parent sat still for a minute and then started laughing as she realized her mistake, and then started speaking to the kids: "Manzana is how you say Apple in Spanish." Manzana - begins with an "M" /m/, Apple begins with an "A", /a/.
I saw that parent in the grocery store yesterday. Guess what she was buying?
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