They can always make you smile
Over the past couple days I have been working one on one with students to assess their prior knowledge before commencing our new Food Unit. The title is "Where our food comes from?" and I've been having the children tell me their thoughts and draw pictures in relation to this question on a large A3 (as we have in Singapore) paper. Many of their food related questions come out naturally in this small group setting such as "How do I cook a chicken?", "Why are yellow watermelons yucky and red ones yummy?", "How do we make a banana?" and "Where do crackers come from?"
Today, when I was working with "Leslie" on her page she said "Food comes from God". I asked her what kind of food and she added "hamburgers". Apparently God likes hamburgers a lot. Leslie concluded that bread also came from God, however, when I asked about how God made the bread she became puzzled. After a moments thought, Leslie confidently shared that God uses the Angels to help him make the bread! We moved on to other ideas from there. These moments make me smile and I hope reading it can also make you smile.
Dan and I just got back from our staff BBQ and a free orchestra concert at the National University of Singapore. Tomorrow (Tuesday) is a holiday (Hari Raya Puasa - Muslim) and so we plan to enjoy lots of time together doing as much of NOTHING as possible.
