Rebellion
Two weeks ago, when the weather resurfaced and become shorter coats to put on, I'm playing a dirty trick by the clock of the class: it will sound the bell in the beginning that more than 5 minutes. So I make my favorite game locker room (and beloved by children). This is actually a game where practice eye contact, when a child is in contact with me, he must, as I nod, stand or sit. They like, and I also saw that this is a game relatively quiet, perfect for my dressing room spirit (where the near-absolute silence and calm for departure).
So I start my eyes and nodding, you're set. I sometimes sit up and children to repeat, what makes them laugh. A. I look at one of my daughters made him a nod and it happens. She looks at me, smile, folds his arms and shakes his head no. I repeat my sign .... same attitude. I made him a sign so the "threat": if you do not do it, I get up and you'll see! The others laugh while I reiterated its refusal. I get up, making the "big-zieux-to-laugh" and laughing it did what I asked.
Case closed, I thought. Well, no. The last five minutes were the most hilarious to me because they all did it, by training but by trust. Never has a child who is ill at ease would have done. In fact, never my little S. would have done before January, it was almost embarrass exist, and it did. Big win. And me, every time I invented a new threat from pretending not to return a child to play upside down. And when I said, yeah but if we do it all the time we can no longer play for real, they said they did only once each. Brilliant I tell you.
down ta 'skirt!
Last situations. A. comes next to me like a gale, hair on the soup, a pot of glue, a honey bee, short as usual. She always has something to say to me, told me that her skirt disturbed, it should lower it.
I look at it, always with my bewildered air inside. I love this child, but sometimes ...! And that's where my answer comes out.
down ta 'the skirt' ambe te 'èlent!
A. looks at me and said what ?!?!? And I laugh to see her try and repeat the thing while trying to hear what I said. She guessed "skirt", but can not find the rest. I told him that the first its lack in every word and that is missing in the same skirt. She struggles and is finally T., another little faster, which tells him that the J. By trial and mime, she eventually finds "leg" and when I add at the beginning of the sentence "It's winter ..." it is "frozen".
And the day ended with all children who were trying to repeat "down ta 'the skirt' ambe te 'èlent!"
