I’ve had a few hilarious encounters with the munchkins lately. In one class we were doing “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes” and when I got to ‘Mouth’ I took my index finger, circled it around my mouth and repeated the English word a few times. Then a kid asked me outloud, “So mouth means beard in English?”
I had a group of 1st graders today who were curious about my beard, pulling it and asking me, “Why don’t you shave?”. I just shrugged my shoulders and said, “Because.” But then one girl yelled out, “Because he’s Santa Claus!”
With a different group of 1st graders, we were playing Duck, Duck, Goose, except in French it’s called Tomate, Ketchup. So in France, kids tap you on the head going “Tomato, tomato, tomato...” and when they want to pick you, they say, “Ketchup!”. Then if you get caught and you’re supposed to go in the pot, they yell over and over, “A la soupe! A la soupe!” (In the soup! In the soup!). Needless to say, having a bunch of 6 year olds screaming out loud to you to get in the soup is, at the same time, totally adorable and totally frightening.
I also played a color game with the smaller kids where they’re split up in two groups and the group that guesses correctly the most colors in English the fastest wins. So I get to white and I hold up a white block and this 6 year old up front, who is obviously getting really excited, yells out - in English - “FUCK!”.
His team didn’t win.
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