Schoolyard's Alternate Purposes
Workday - 8:15am-1:15pm
I finally teach in a classroom with windows. While my math class worked quietly, I peered out into the yard behind the school. For the first time, I noticed that there's a ravine back there -- with a path and bridge and some woods just beyond that. So I say out loud, "wow, I didn't realize there was a ravine behind the school! And there's a little bridge. How cute!". I knew this comment would also start up something interesting. Right away one student exclaimed "yeah! That's where (his friend sitting beside him) lives! Under the bridge. You have to answer his questions correctly to pass". Of course, I have to give my Simpsons two-cents to that, and replied (to the other kid) "oh no! You have to live under a bridge like a common troll?".
Then I pointed out the window and informed the class that those woods were where teachers took students to hunt them for sport. I think they got excited about that. I have fun students.
I finally teach in a classroom with windows. While my math class worked quietly, I peered out into the yard behind the school. For the first time, I noticed that there's a ravine back there -- with a path and bridge and some woods just beyond that. So I say out loud, "wow, I didn't realize there was a ravine behind the school! And there's a little bridge. How cute!". I knew this comment would also start up something interesting. Right away one student exclaimed "yeah! That's where (his friend sitting beside him) lives! Under the bridge. You have to answer his questions correctly to pass". Of course, I have to give my Simpsons two-cents to that, and replied (to the other kid) "oh no! You have to live under a bridge like a common troll?".
Then I pointed out the window and informed the class that those woods were where teachers took students to hunt them for sport. I think they got excited about that. I have fun students.
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