My 4 year old students

[piperwest12.livejournal.com]

As I get the list of the other classrooms I will post those as well

Samantha
Summer Bailey (full name, but I really like the way they flow, taught her older brother Elias)
Jaslene (jazz-lean)
Jaynalie (jay-nA-lee) (taught her cousin, Jeremiah)
Chrispin (taught his slightly older aunt, Aida, which is also my given name)
Jesus
Laysha
Maliha
Ishma
Fatima (Taught her older brothers Hymadou, Mohamadou)
Alison
Ximena(he-men-a)
Rodrigo
Alexandra ( I taught her aunts when they were young, Melissa, Michelle, Adrianna)
Marianny (ma-ree-Annie)
Matthew
Bryant
Joel
Nayeli(ny-jelly) , Adrian, my student last year
Dwayne ( I have been a teacher to almost all his siblings, older half sibling Christopher, full siblings Dominique, Diamond, Darrell, Daryl, Dewan)

Comments

[eveyalecia.livejournal.com]

Darrell and Daryl are siblings? Aren't they pronounced the same? Or does Darrell sound like Duh-rell and Daryl Dare-ill? Still, they're so similar!

Summer Bailey does flow very nicely! I also like Chrispin, Rodrigo, and Joel.

[piperwest12.livejournal.com]

It's Da-rell and Da-rill kind of like drill.

[kjerlandsen.livejournal.com]

Maybe the parents are Bob Newhart fans?
@ 2:54

[jeweledvixen.livejournal.com]

LMAO! Thank you! This is all I could think of when I saw that list of names. :D

[twitchywoman.livejournal.com]

I seriously loved this show growing up.

[jeweledvixen.livejournal.com]

Overall, not a bad list. I am trying to figure out how they get he-men-a from Ximena and ny-jelly from Nayeli, but other than that, not too bad. Although poor Dwayne seems to be somehow related to the Duggars, poor kid. Maybe his mother is Mrs. Duggar's sister.

[scarsnsouvenirs.livejournal.com]

Re: Ximena and Nayeli--Both are Spanish names. "X" is actually usually pronounced more like "sh" (or "h" works--probably Anglicized) and "y" is pronounced more like a "j."

[jeweledvixen.livejournal.com]

Oh, ok. That makes sense. Thanks! :)

[hermione-vader.livejournal.com]

An alternative spell of Ximena is Jimena, which where that pronunciation comes from.

[jeweledvixen.livejournal.com]

Ah, I did not know that. Thanks. :)

[hermione-vader.livejournal.com]

Darrell and Daryl? O.o Someone beat me to the Newhart reference.

I like:

Samantha
Summer Bailey (Elias)
Ishma
Fatima
Ximena
Rodrigo
Alexandra
Joel
Nayeli
(Christopher, Dominique)

[piperwest12.livejournal.com]

Lol I have been reading all the Newhart comments, the children's dad is named Daniel.

[wizened-cynic.livejournal.com]

I like Summer as a name though I would never use it as a formal name for my child. A nickname, maybe.

We have an Aida in my office too! My cousin is Ada, pronounced totally differently.

It's interesting that there are still kids being named Alison these days. It strikes me as a 70's or 80's name.