One of the goals this semester for Tin's class is to create a love of reading in the kids. The teacher has this great project where the kids read a chapter of a book and then write the title of the chapter, a one-sentence summary of their favorite part (or an important part/what they understood), and then they draw a picture and put it on this frame, which makes the pictures pop up when the kids open it. So far it is working - Tin can't wait to come home and get this homework assignment done, he's so excited. The only complaint I have (you knew it was coming, right?) is that the teacher didn't want us to have to buy another book, so she is retyping the chapters and making copies for everyone. Unfortunately, she is doing it typical Ecuadorian education-style, complete with typos and bad punctuation and fragments and run ons. Half the time Tin can't understand, and there are no pictures, which makes for boring reading for a 6-year-old. I have decided that we are going to have to look for the original. If only for MY sanity!
Edited to fix my typo on the word "typo" - it read "type". Hilarious!
3 comments:
I will never understand how someone like you lives in a world where that is just the way it is. A teacher will just type a book on paper and make copies for the students...very economical but just so far from anything that seems normal for us and how we grew up.
i am going to start calling it bizarro-land....lol
That is kind of amazing...and sooooo different from the books our students have available. They are allowed three at a time from our school library which is pretty well stocked. Believe me, the kids are forever going there...it is one of their favorite places to be. But...on the other hand, I am glad your boys are not picking up all the nasty things these inner city kids say and do to each other constantly. It is unbelievable how mean some of them can be every day. Bus rides are the worse....of course, I am talking inner city here. It may be very different in the suburbs. The diversity is great in many ways...like I love our drum and dance Fridays and how everyone is invited to the Native American pow wows, but most of the problems we have on the playground, bus, etc. are also racial and caused by diversity issues!
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