(23/05/26) "Ribbet Ribbet" 🐸

One of my favorite lines from my most recent read, Anne of Green Gables, is: “Isn’t it splendid to think about all the things there are to find out about?” And after this past Saturday, I wholeheartedly agree.

The book we read was about a toad playing hopscotch, so as we were reading, I paused and asked if they knew what hopscotch was. After a moment of silence and confusion, I added, “You know? The game where you jump around.” Immediately, hands started shooting up and the room was filled with a resounding “Yes!”

I asked for an example and called up three people: Pius, Joshua and Prince… and this is where it gets funny. Each person, with Prince’s being the most realistic, got on the floor and started hopping like a toad! I burst out laughing, and the whole class joined in too.

In the end, the truth came out: they didn't actually know the word "hopscotch," but they did know the game by a different name: pɛlɛ. That day, they learned that the English name for one of their favorite jumping games is hopscotch, and I learned that the Twi name for it is pɛlɛ (I also learned how to jump like a toad!).

Other than that, the rest of the day went smoothly. After reading our book, we broke into groups of four or five and went down memory lane, re-reading some of our favorite storybooks and logging them into our exercise books as part of our 100-book challenge.

Kudos to Cornelia and Kuukua for showing initiative and curiosity by starting the challenge at home and at school, and for writing down the titles of the books they read.

We ended our day with some free reading time and some yummy snacks. Maybe next week I should bring chalk and we’ll have a hopscotch challenge!

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