A very natural addition to my collection today... a language flower
I was wandering around the delight that is the Language Garden blog and felt uplifted by what I saw and read there. It just made a connection in my brain and was so fresh and ... well enchanting.
Then today in class as they were trying to make sentences out of word cards I'd given them ... they started to connect the days of the week words and the afternoon, morning, evening words and something in my head clicked. The next thing we were growing the bloom you see before you and I loved it! I always clean my board after a lesson. I think it's rude and inconsiderate not too but I was too proud of this... so I confess I left it for the next person to use that classroom!
Amazing plants, Anna! In your comments on LG, you said how it clicked into place, how you realised words can branch off from each other, and letters within words too. Hopefully the next teacher would pause briefly to admire your work, before muttering "how rude not to clean the board"! David
Posted by: DavidWarr | 02/18/2011 at 09:38 AM
Yeah I hope so too :-) and thanks so much for your lovely comment!
Posted by: Anna Rose | 02/22/2011 at 02:24 PM
Excellent example of how to apply David's approach! Personally I figured it might be a bit too hard for many teachers to emulate (thinking this was one of those sort of freak talents on the part of David!) but you've proven me wrong (and taught me a couple of things as well).
Nice work!
- J
Posted by: Account Deleted | 03/12/2011 at 07:14 PM
To be honest that's exactly what I thought when I saw David's plants on his website but it really did just click that day in class... and flowed very easily!
Thanks for the very kind compliment... teaching you something is an unusual but flattering change ;-p
Posted by: Anna Rose | 03/14/2011 at 11:24 PM