Barbie Has A New Boyfriend

This past week "my" precious little cherub's were learning about the -en word family. For those that are confused, this would be words like hen, ben, jen, then, when, and so on. You get the point. Teaching word families is always humorous because they never fail to come up with the most random words.

Normally, we have them brainstorm words, then we read a book about those words and then we move on in the lesson putting those words in sentences and such.

During the brainstorming phase they were having a problem coming up with some of the words.

My teacher asked them what Barbie's boyfriend was named? Each of them had the most puzzled expression on their face and sat silent. She kept saying, "You know, Barbie's boyfriend. Back when I played with barbies she had a boyfriend!" I completely agreed, but still, complete silence. We figured that clearly we were out dated because know one knew Barbie's boyfriends name.

Finally, after some more awkward silence, one of our little boys shouted out "ELVIS!"

Immediately we started laughing. First of all, Elvis has nothing to do with the -en word family. And secondly, where in the world did he come up with Elvis?

I guess Barbie and Ken broke up.

Rumors has it there was a scandalous affair.