TEACHING WIN
I started crocheting scarves a few weeks ago. Don't get excited. I'm not good at crafts. I just have the patience to keep at them, provided I've been given very clear directions.
And these scarves are REALLY easy, because you just use one stitch on this special yarn that's already most of the work done for you. My seventh grade girls REALLY liked the first scarf they saw me wearing, and wanted to know where I got it. I was going to give them some of the many random scarves I'd made, but then I decided I'd teach them HOW to make them. (This is a class that definitely spends more time texting and watching TV than I imagine I'd like a seventh grader of mine to spend. You can see the resulting lack of patience/focus/etc.) And they all said yes, they'd like to learn.
So, this lunch period, I taught them all how to do it. They are all very excited about making their scarves, and they all look so cute sitting there crocheting. And then one of the girls -- the most "I prefer texting about Justin Bieber to any other activity in the whole world" one of them all -- said to me, "My mom will come in tomorrow and give you a big hug and say THANK YOU! SHE ISN'T TEXTING!"
Which made my day.
Now if only I could figure out a way to get a student to say "My mom is going to come in and hug you and say "THANK YOU! SHE STUDIES LATIN EVERY DAY!"
And these scarves are REALLY easy, because you just use one stitch on this special yarn that's already most of the work done for you. My seventh grade girls REALLY liked the first scarf they saw me wearing, and wanted to know where I got it. I was going to give them some of the many random scarves I'd made, but then I decided I'd teach them HOW to make them. (This is a class that definitely spends more time texting and watching TV than I imagine I'd like a seventh grader of mine to spend. You can see the resulting lack of patience/focus/etc.) And they all said yes, they'd like to learn.
So, this lunch period, I taught them all how to do it. They are all very excited about making their scarves, and they all look so cute sitting there crocheting. And then one of the girls -- the most "I prefer texting about Justin Bieber to any other activity in the whole world" one of them all -- said to me, "My mom will come in tomorrow and give you a big hug and say THANK YOU! SHE ISN'T TEXTING!"
Which made my day.
Now if only I could figure out a way to get a student to say "My mom is going to come in and hug you and say "THANK YOU! SHE STUDIES LATIN EVERY DAY!"