The students made some great connections during today's vocabulary lesson. I read Caps For Sale. The man in the story is a peddler and we talked about how that meant the same thing as a vendor, a vocabulary word from the past. Another vocabulary word for today was imitate, which the students related to the word mimic. Last week I pointed out onomatopoeia (the use of words to suggest a sound, such as "woof" or "hiss"). Onomatopoeia is used a lot in children's books. Every time I read a story with it, they shout the word "onomatopoeia." There was a guest teacher in the room next door who came to see me after school. She commented that things have sure changed in the kindergarten curriculum because she could hear the students using a word she didn't learn until high school. I thought that was hilarious! They do enjoy knowing and using big words.