During the past week, my students have been playing with tangrams – I have given them the opportunity to copy patterns and images that I have printed out on numerous cards. They love moving the shapes to create different things and spent the 20 minutes set aside for the task actively engaged in in the activity. At the end of last week, I gave them the opportunity to create their own images which they did so with confidence.
Yesterday was the chance for them to show me what they could do. Using a pair of scissors, they cut out the tangrams, placed the shapes to create an image, and then glued the pieces onto a new sheet of paper. Thereafter, they coloured in their image and, using the sentence up on the board as a guide, they wrote down what they had created.
The response of one student made me smile: “J’ai construit Mme Kook-Chun qui fait le Zumba avec les tangrams.” (I made Madame Kook-chun who is doing Zumba with the tangrams).
I smiled for so many reasons: she knows my love of Zumba, she placed the pieces accurately, and her inserted phrase was written perfectly! This is a response that I will definitely be keeping a copy of. 😀
What has made you smile this week?
© Colline Kook-Chun, 2017
(This post was inspired by Trent’s Weekly Smile, a challenge which focuses on sharing all things positive.)
What a nice piece of work! It made me smile, as I’m sure it did you. Do you conduct all your lessons in French, Colline? 🙂 🙂
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Yes I do Jo. I am a French Immersion teacher which means I am teaching the children French by immersing them in the language.
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But English is their first language? 🤔
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For most of them, yes. I have had immigrant children who can’t speak neither English nor French. They are the ones that learn the quickest 😄
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Necessity 🤗💕
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I love tangrams too – and the Zumba “you” with French is awesome for so many reasons and I know why you will treasure a copy of it – oh so awesome
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It is great – I love it!Every now and then one of my students does something unexpected.
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It was so awesome – and I have done tangrams in the art room many times so I think I can extra appreciate the brilliance in a young student making her teacher with a sport like that! Two gold
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I agree ::D
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😊
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