Monday, November 06, 2006

Creative Listening

I love working in an international preschool. The students' various English levels and personalities come out in such fun ways. Here's a story from today.

A fifth-grade friend of ours donated several dozen of her "little kid books" to the preschool library on the weekend. Seeing the books today, our students were overjoyed and decided to write a thank you card. One boy heard "thank you car" and asked if he could write a "thank you truck" instead. Another boy, when it was his turn to sign his name, drew a big picture of a sports car (because what's a thank you car without a picture, right?).

Maybe you had to be there, but Mrs. Hiroko and I had a good chuckle over it.

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