We read Tikki Tikki Tembo retold by Arlene Mosel. Tikki Tikki Tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo fell into a well. His brother Chang ran to get help. Chang had to say "Tikki Tikki Tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo has fallen into the well" so many times because his mother could not hear him over the noise of the river that Tikki Tikki Tembo was at the bottom of the well a very long time. Chang finally ran to get the old man with the ladder. But Tikki had been in the well for so long it took him many days to get better. So from that day on the parents in China name their sons short names so that it does not take so long to say their names. We counted the letters in Tikki's name and he had 50 letters so we decided to graph the letters in our names. We learned that most students in our class have four or five letters in their name. Only one person in our class have eight letters in their name. Two people have nine letters in their name.