My Friday’s Quotes – August 27, 200
posted by admin @ 8:00 AM
Friday, August 27, 2010
Learning Online allows children more flexibility to explore and discover things for themselves. But there are times when their interpretation may not be right, but is wonderfully funny. Here are just a few:
My first day of teaching (many years ago) we were discussing what Labor Day was and why it was a holiday. “Labor Day is the day my mother gave birth to me,” was the answer I received from a rather well-informed first grader.
When asked to define H2o and Co2, I learned that H2o was hot water and Co2 was cold.
A discussion about our bodies and our spine brought forth this definition: The spine is a long bunch of bones. Your head sits on top of the bones and you sit on the bottom.
(I wish I was an artist who could draw some of the things I’ve heard. But my students will tell you that I’m not even good at stick people.)