fun with reading

the youngest class i teach is 5 year olds. this class is composed of the "i'm dumb" kids as well as kevin lee, who you may remember from the "my favorite!" posting. anyway. i like to read simple books to these guys and have them repeat back to me what i read to them, good practice with pronunciation, memorization of sentence structure, etc. the past few weeks we've been working on the present progressive, sentences like:

i'm drinking
i'm walking
i'm singing

i found this great book in the school library entitled
"hi! what are you doing!"
every other page is like this one here:


hi! what are you doing? and then a sort of onomatopoeia spelling of the action that will be revealed under the onomatopoeia flap. the book is filled with banal actions like:

i'm playing the drums
i'm writing a letter
i'm walking in the grass

as well as the following:


the kids love this book! i love it, too.
i have incorporated this book into every lesson plan i have devised for this class for the past month.

the best, though, is when i pass the toilets in the afternoon, where all the kids take a big group bathroom break, doors wide open, and i hear them talking to each other . . .

sally: hi jason! what are you doing?
jason: i'm peeing!

oh the satisfaction of a lesson well taught.
teaching is so rewarding. :) :) :)