kids

Yesterday, I had my youngest kids drawing pictures. In this particular class, the English skills are extremely limited, and so are their attention spans. So, we sang "He's got the whole world in his hands," and then I had them draw pictures of what is in God's hands. Some drew flags of the countries, some drew soccer players, some drew bugs. One child drew a picture of a space shuttle. He showed it to me and said, "Teacher, rocket." I said, "that's great, where is the rocket going?" He said, "Future." "Wow, the future." Then the child wrote J-E-S-U-S on the wings of the rocket. I said, "Jesus is on the rocket to the future?" "Yes." "Really?" Then he looked at me as though I had asked the most obvious question possible. "Is fast." Right.

The other day I was playing a game with the kids called "Back to the Board," where one of them stands with their back to the board, I write a word on the board, and then the class tries to get the one kid to guess the word. They can't make sound effects, say the word in Korean, or say the word itself. It's actually a pretty good game for ESL students. We played for awhile, and then they wanted me to play. They were giving mostly science words, I guess because they had just come from that class. Good words, words like "irrigate," and "vertebrae." I was standing with my back to the board, and they started giving me clues. "Make more, make more of, teacher." "Increase?" No. "No, teacher. Mom, dad, tadpole." Hmm. "populate?" "No, teacher. Make babies, make babies. What is make babies?" Hmm.
"Starts with B."
B?
"Breed!"
phew.