Youngsters see the world with fresh eyes and explore language in unique ways to describe what they experience. This post shares some absolutely wonderful preschooler comments and observations.
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Three year old, while painting: What do you get when you mix blue and orange?
Adult: I’m not sure.
Three year old, mixing blue and orange paint and smearing it onto paper: It makes a kind of brown. It looks like diarrhea!
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Preschooler: I know what “foot” starts with. (making the sound of the letter) F-f-f-f . It’s the letter F.
Adult: Cool. And what does it end with?
Preschooler: (Sounding it out) T-t-t-t. Toes!!!
Of course a foot ends with toes!
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Four year old: I want brown rice for supper. But not really dark brown. Not dark like this. (She closed her eyes to show how dark she meant.)
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Granddaughter: I am very fast. I can go one million one thousand.
Grandmother: Wow. That’s fast.
Granddaughter: That’s as old as you are!