a teacher's influence...

in one of our stations, my kids are working on building words. they have word building cubes that are put together to make real words. after making the word, they practice reading it and then write in their work journals.

today, a student looks up and seriously asks, "mrs. kotze, is zipit one word or two?"

i guess they do repeat what they hear huh? well, if they didn't talk so much i wouldn't constantly be telling them to zip it...