This program provides children with unusual but useful words in stories and they then make up stories using these words. Below is one example along with the vocabulary list and definitions.
A Poppycock Tale About a Little Girl
One day a little girl was sitting in her house beneath the abatjour and was reading a book about the Mayflower, the ship that took the pilgrims to America. She read that in the abaft, they stored all the food they needed for the very long journey. She got hungry often and since she did bibble, wondered if she had been on the ship, she might have eaten too much and maybe aggravated the other pilgrims?
She decided such thinking about the Mayflower was baboonery and went to the kitchen to get an apple. She was wearing a caffoy dress and when she went to sit down slipped off the stool and plopped on the floor. Her clothes were now all cattywampussed!
She also became discombulated and began to think she was on the Mayflower! She thought to herself, I wonder if we pilgrims have brought with us a dragoman? If we have not, how will we know where to go when we get there?
As she looked over the rail of the ship in her imaginary journey, she saw they had arrived and looked at the eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious site of Plymouth! It was an amazing erf!
But she became frightened that the journey was over as she was a finifugal little girl. She did not want to get off the Mayflower to finish the journey!
She became flummoxed as to what to do? She looked down and saw her hallux and realized there was a hole in her shoe! How could she get off the Mayflower and step on that Plymouth rock with her hallux sticking out of her shoe?
Suddenly her mother hent her and awoke her from this terrible dream!
Her mother said “What are you screaming about, what is all this hullabaloo about?”
Oh, mother, I am sorry, I slipped off the stool because I am wearing this caffoy dress and then started imagining I was on the Mayflower!
Her mother said “Gadzooks, this is jabberwock!” I want you to come with me, we are going on a walking journey, so go and get your kennebecker.” But this little girl was lackadaisical and did not want to go and told her mother “Do I have to go?”
Her mother said with lamprophonical words “YES” you must come.
“But mother, look at the meldrop” and she pointed at her nose. “I think I have a cold?”
“Oh, I see that you do! You may stay at home. But change your clothes and put on nainsook garments so you do not slip off anymore stools!”
So her mother oxtered the little girl and took her to the bedroom to change her clothes.
Her mother was a quadragenarian but was still very full of strength and so went on her hiking trip alone while the little girl laid down on her bed.
She then got up and decided to write a story and found a quire of lined paper and began to write her story.
Suddenly, though she heard fire engines coming down their street. She ran to the window and saw the ucalegons looking at their house with the smoke coming out the windows. Thankfully the firemen got the fire out with little damage and the little girl called to the ucalegons and asked them to come to her kitchen where she would give them some vacherin!! They came and enjoyed this delicious treat. But one of these neighbors xertxed so much that the others got very little! When the little girl expressed criticism of this neighbor, the neighbor said “I am a pig” and that is because she suffered from zoanthropy!!
The ucalegons all decided just to go back home to see their house and all sang a paen that it wasn’t burned too badly.
Well to mabble this story, the mother came home from her hike and the little girl was largiloquent about what had happened.
The End
Below is a list of words used in this story along with the definitions.
I give this list to the children and then they make up their own stories using some of these words.
Abecedarian - Anyone who is currently learning the alphabet can be referred to as this — so basically all kindergarteners.
Absquatulate. To leave somewhere abruptly.
Abomasum — the fourth stomach of a ruminant, such as a cow or sheep (noun)
Antimacassar — a small covering (noun)
Foofaraw — a great fuss or disturbance about something very insignificant (noun)
Glabella — the flat area of bone between the eyebrows (noun)
Izzard — the letter Z (noun)
Kerfuffle — a fuss; commotion (noun)
Kvetch — to complain, especially chronically (verb)
Nagware — computer software that is free for a trial period during which the user is frequently reminded on screen to register and pay (noun)
Nesh — sensitive to the cold (adjective)
Noctambulist — a sleepwalker (noun)
Ogdoad — the number eight (noun)
Otalgia —earache (noun)
Pollex — the innermost digit of the forelimb; thumb (noun)
Pother —commotion (noun)
Sarmie — a sandwich (noun)
Schlep — to carry (verb)
Scrumdiddlyumptious — extremely tasty; delicious (adjective)
Sockdolager — something unusually large, heavy, etc. (noun)
Sternutatory —causing or tending to cause sneezing (adjective)
Tintinnabulation — the ringing or sound of bells (noun)
Wabbit — exhausted (adjective)