Last Friday, I was scraping the bottom of the barrel with something to do with my first graders. There's not a whole lot you can do with them and this is a problem when you've got to constantly change activities in order to control their wandering attention spans.
I was looking for objects around the flat that I could use and the only thing I found was a bag of cottonballs. I was thinking that we could use them for prepositions (under, on, in, above, next to, etc.) "Put your cotton ball under your desk...blah blah blah...." I know it sounds lame, but again, desperation is everywhere at the bottom of the barrel.
Was it successful? Not really. But I did get a good laugh out of it.
Instead of putting the cottonballs in the correct prepositional place, most children ate them.
Now, I realize that cottonballs look like miniature cotton candies (especially when they're pink and blue), but isn't the awful taste of stringy bits of cotton enough to turn on a light in the head? They didn't seem the least bit disgusted by it, happily "masticating" the cotton into smaller, more cohesive wads.
On the other hand, a lot of kids ate glue when they were little (excluding me)...but still...COTTON?! Bleck!!
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you're kids are fucked up.
umm, can i change that real quickly to "your kids are fucked up." sorry. bean hair to loong...
That's so strange! Aren't there cotton balls in Hungary? Did they think it was some sort of bland American candy?
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