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Quotes from the beginning of the school year from children:
"Have the courage to use your head."
"Do things the brain way!"
"But I don't like beets on my pizza!" (In reference to using a 'pizza' circle to explain fractions, hence music notes. Four beats per pizza, so to speak.)
And the Lesson -for- the teacher moment: Small girl straight from Ireland, lovely child, has banged her shin a bit, and it's barely got some blood on it. I told her to get a Kleenex and press it agains the scratch. She looks at me funny, and continues to fuss at it with her fingers. I told her it really was okay to get a Kleenex, and pointed. They're over on the desk by the stereo, I said. She went, then very tentatively brought back my air freshener, utterly baffled, and asked if that was Kleenex. Doh. Poor child, baffled by my American colloquialisms. I apologized profusely and explained what 'Kleenex' is. And the moral of the story for me is, never assume communication has happened, even if the language is theoretically the same. Must remember that for all children.
"Have the courage to use your head."
"Do things the brain way!"
"But I don't like beets on my pizza!" (In reference to using a 'pizza' circle to explain fractions, hence music notes. Four beats per pizza, so to speak.)
And the Lesson -for- the teacher moment: Small girl straight from Ireland, lovely child, has banged her shin a bit, and it's barely got some blood on it. I told her to get a Kleenex and press it agains the scratch. She looks at me funny, and continues to fuss at it with her fingers. I told her it really was okay to get a Kleenex, and pointed. They're over on the desk by the stereo, I said. She went, then very tentatively brought back my air freshener, utterly baffled, and asked if that was Kleenex. Doh. Poor child, baffled by my American colloquialisms. I apologized profusely and explained what 'Kleenex' is. And the moral of the story for me is, never assume communication has happened, even if the language is theoretically the same. Must remember that for all children.
