The topic for my 4th grade is currently sports. We’ve spent the past week and a half talking about our favorite sports, what sports we play, and what sports we like to watch. Today’s lesson covered the verbs to kick and to throw and related sentence constructions. I gave a few examples:
I throw the ball to Vova.
I kicked the ball to Liza two days ago.
The lesson started to get interesting when I explained that when they wrote sentences into their copybooks, they were to substitute both the object being thrown and the person who receives the object. [This is where my grammar explanation in English fails me. I can explain this in Russian, but not in English.] The students started writing things like this:
I threw the car to Lera one year ago.
He throws the bathtub to the president.
They always kick the elephant to the teacher.
She kicked Olya to Andrei.
It started to get interesting when one little girl started using words from our previous list of London landmarks.
I threw Big Ben and Westminster Palace to Queen Elizabeth the II.
What absolutely made my day was this one:
I kicked planet Earth to God.
The teacher got fairly upset about this; she had already become annoyed by the absurdity of the London sentences. She asked “How is God going to catch Earth?”
“I don’t know, he’s God. And then we’ll probably get a point.”
I adore my students.
This is the best post. On any blog. Ever.
I want to throw the Earth, too!
Glorious!
i’ve started reading your websites…from the BEGINNING! i absolutely love this one…and you are sooo on target allowing these great students to be creative. I will now forever remember the sentence: I kick the planet earth to God.
oops..i mean blogs, not websites. ha