Hey everyone!
So today I learnt my lesson about making sure you explain things very clearly to kids when you are teaching……
As part of the Maths Challenge, today one of my classes got the privelege of using the few (rather slow and old) computers we have to do some researching to find the colours of football shirts, flags and logos to decorate their presentations. Beforehand I carefully explained to them that they could only use the computers for the task at hand, and not to play games or download music or anything like that (spoil sport I know, but give them an inch and they take a mile with our kids!).
So everything was going swimmingly, until I turned around and saw two of the kids with a picture of rather scantly-clad brazilian woman in a very small bikini! I obviously kicked them out the class and told them to go and return and do some other work they had to do.
I then went to where they were to give them the opportunity to explain their actions and their excuse was priceless: they were keeping to the rules because the bikini was of the brazilian flag and they were trying to find out the colours of it………
Moral of the story – be very clear about your instructions to 10 year old boys…….
Bendiciones
Andy
