it's IN-A-PO-PEE-ATE

During a speech session today I told a student that she wasn't able to play a game.  She gave me a face that indicated that she wasn't happy with me so I said, sympathetically "Oh, bummer!"  To which she hastily reprimanded me, "Hey! Don't say that word!" I asked, "why not?" To which she replied, "It's IN-A-PO-PEE-ATE!"

I'd rather

While working in the 2s and 3s year old preschool classroom I noticed one of the students had a really snotty nose.  So I said, "{Student X}, looks like your nose needs to be wiped.  There is a tissue in the box on the shelf (while pointing to the shelf)."  His response was, "I'd rather use my sleeve."  And promptly did so.

whipping cream...

While working at the book center in a 2s and 3s year old classroom, I was reading the book Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What do you See? On the last page of the book, which looks like this...

I paused and asked a student to tell me what the 'dreaming child' saw..  my student started... "a panda bear, [pause] a eagle [pause] a BALD eagle, [pause] a water buffalo, [pause] a spider monkey, [pause] a sea turtle, [pause] a macaroni-ni pen-gah-win, [pause] a sea lion, [pause] a red wolf, [pause] a whipping cream... and a (whispering) black panther..."