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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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 Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 4:15 am Post subject: Write a book with your kids |
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I've got a class of super basics. It's a small class of which counts three students, no more, no less. The number of the student counting is three. Four students shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two students, excepting that thou then proceed to three students. They're all about 9 years old and very cute. They love drawing. I have to hide the chalk because they run up to the board to draw elaborate pictures of ideas they would rather not express in English.
I took a page out of the old "never ending story" post that seemed to be present on every BBS back in the day. I got each kid to add a new page to the story until I deemed it done. Unlike the BBS days, our story didn't invariably end with a naked Captain Kirk being beamed over to a ship full of gay Klingons. Every never ending BBS story always seemed to regress to that plot device, which basically killed the story.
Anyway, we wrote a book called "Octopus Tom goes to Korea". One day I had them do the story, the next day we did the pictures. I used my digital camera to scan in the pics. I used the work laser printer and Word to format a little chap book. Tuesday when I see them I'm going to give them each a copy. I also converted the book into a web page, because you know how over-proud parents love to show off their kid's art work. I figure the parents can email grandma or whatever. "Oh look what your grand daughter did in school today..."
Here's the web page I made for them:
http://www.geocities.com/octopustom/index.htm
It's a bit of work on your end and it's hard to do with a big class (say over 5), but if you have a small class of budding artist types, it's a nice change. Giving the parents a web page is a nice little value added thing. |
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Ody
Joined: 27 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 12:42 am Post subject: Re: Write a book with your kids |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
I've got a class of super basics. It's a small class of which counts three students, no more, no less. The number of the student counting is three. Four students shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two students, excepting that thou then proceed to three students. They're all about 9 years old and very cute. They love drawing. I have to hide the chalk because they run up to the board to draw elaborate pictures of ideas they would rather not express in English.
I took a page out of the old "never ending story" post that seemed to be present on every BBS back in the day. I got each kid to add a new page to the story until I deemed it done. Unlike the BBS days, our story didn't invariably end with a naked Captain Kirk being beamed over to a ship full of gay Klingons. Every never ending BBS story always seemed to regress to that plot device, which basically killed the story.
Anyway, we wrote a book called "Octopus Tom goes to Korea". One day I had them do the story, the next day we did the pictures. I used my digital camera to scan in the pics. I used the work laser printer and Word to format a little chap book. Tuesday when I see them I'm going to give them each a copy. I also converted the book into a web page, because you know how over-proud parents love to show off their kid's art work. I figure the parents can email grandma or whatever. "Oh look what your grand daughter did in school today..."
Here's the web page I made for them:
http://www.geocities.com/octopustom/index.htm
It's a bit of work on your end and it's hard to do with a big class (say over 5), but if you have a small class of budding artist types, it's a nice change. Giving the parents a web page is a nice little value added thing. |
that's nice. thanks for sharing.  |
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kprrok
Joined: 06 Apr 2004
Location: KC
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 2:10 am Post subject: |
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that's pretty cool. I think I'm going to steal this idea.
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 4:08 am Post subject: |
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that's pretty cool. I think I'm going to steal this idea.
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If you want the template to do a double sided book format in Word, let me know. I'll give you one. Basically what you do is print 4 pages per A4 page and then fold in the middle. But because you're folding multiple pages, the order is a bit wonky. |
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bibimbap
Joined: 14 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 7:10 am Post subject: |
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| OP: you're new here, aren't you. |
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peemil
Joined: 09 Feb 2003
Location: Koowoompa
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| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Oh yeah... That's gotta be a newbie. |
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oneiros
Joined: 19 Aug 2003
Location: Villa Straylight
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| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 7:07 pm Post subject: Re: Write a book with your kids |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| I've got a class of super basics. |
Define "super basic". I feel proud when my basic class can string together something like "My name is Bobby. I have two red crayons. They are short."
Cute book, though. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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| bibimbap wrote: |
| OP: you're new here, aren't you. |
Yes. And I pray I don't slip into a "I'm just here to cash a pay check" attitude. That's the day I go back to a cushy, high paying software job. I give it two years.
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Very cute- almost makes me want to teach young kids |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Swiss James wrote: |
| Very cute- almost makes me want to teach young kids |
In small, easy-to-control numbers (3-5) they're cute as all get out. When you dense pack 'em into a class, they're savages. |
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hojucandy
Joined: 03 Feb 2003
Location: In a better place
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| Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 1:04 am Post subject: |
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great stuff!!!
i love small classes. the hagwon i taught at until recently had all small classes. why oh why did i leave there!!!!??? |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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| hojucandy wrote: |
great stuff!!!
i love small classes. the hagwon i taught at until recently had all small classes. why oh why did i leave there!!!!??? |
I have some larger classes at my hagwon, especially on fridays when they merge the m/w t/t stream. Not so fun. I suspect the parents are actually paying a rate commensurate with idea their kid is getting small class numbers and more individual attention. |
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