Witty Girl!

In kindergarten guidance class yesterday, we had a story called Ruthie and the Not So Teeny Tiny Lie, which was about using your conscience to help you do the right thing. Before reading the book, I handed out several puppets that corresponded with the animal characters in the story. Selected students chose a pig, a gray tabby cat, a fox, an aardvark, a duck, a bear, a lamb, and a little white rabbit. Refocusing the children's attention before I began to read, I reminded them that we were learning about using our consciences to help make decisions. Repeating the book's title, I said that it gave us evidence of what the book would be about. "Do you think it will it be about good or bad behavior?" I asked. As children began to respond in chorus, one particular answer stood out. A golden-haired child in the back row held her lamb puppet high and enthusiastically belted out, "Baa-aaa-d!" Bleating like a lamb...how quick and clever!