My second year teaching I traveled between two schools in semi-rural North Georgia. One week in the spring, my kindergartners were working on the song “A-Hunting We Will Go.” We had sung the song, found the patterns, matched up the rhyming pairs, and made a few more examples as a class, and now it was time for each student to make up his or her own new verse for the song and illustrate it – I had provided pages that said “We’ll catch a _____ and put it in a _______ and then we’ll let it go” at the top. As the students wrote and colored diligently, I walked around and asked them about their verses. When one little boy shared his rhyme with me, I was all ready to see a picture of a whale stuck in the middle of a bale of hay (which, while unlikely, is pretty much par for the course for kinders). Imagine my surprise
when he proudly showed me his drawing of a whale, not in a bale of hay, but in a big brass bell. Gotta love that southern twang!
Ann Wells, Fayetteville, NC
when he proudly showed me his drawing of a whale, not in a bale of hay, but in a big brass bell. Gotta love that southern twang!
Ann Wells, Fayetteville, NC