Ask a second grader to complete a familiar English phrase, and you might get the “right” answer, or you might hear something really fun.
At Indian Land Elementary recently, one 8-year-old in Lindsey Scheppegrell’s class knew, for example, that jealousy is the green-eyed… “monster.”
This is the age when kids have heard or read enough that some common phrases can start registering in their brains.