So I'm mostly posting this for JP....
Today I taught first grade- a fully bilingual classroom setting.
The daily routine,
reading,
writing,
math,
etc...all in Spanish.
NO ENGLISH up until Science time.
So when we got to Science time I got to feel a
tiny bit more comfortable with what I was saying--
knowing that I had all the vocabulary I needed at my disposal!
But, this is why I write my story!
JP, are you paying attention?
Pay attention now!
For Science class we were studying the life cycle of a frog.
So we talked about how there are eggs floating on water,
and then tadpoles hatch out,
then the tadpoles loose their tails and
gills to become baby frogs,
and then baby frogs become adult frogs,
that then lay eggs
that hatch into tadpoles...
etc.
They were really getting it,
and we were moving our hands around in
circles to show that it's a cycle.
Then they had an assignment.
They had a paper with pictures of different stages of "frogs",
and they were out of order.
They had to color them,
cut them out,
and then put them in the right order.
I sat down at one of the tables,
and made my own cycle of frogs. As I sat there a student turned to me and said,
"So which came first, the frog or the egg?"
Genius! This kid is a genius!
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