This is a fat cat on a mat.
Heather brought home some completed school worksheets yesterday. They were working on words like hat, dog, mop, fox, etc...filling in blanks, writing sentences, drawing pictures. The piture boxes started by asking the child to draw a picture of jam, or ham, or fog. Then, they got tricky, working up to my top three favourite sentences, for which Heather was required to draw a picture. She did pretty cool pictures, (I say, completely unbiased) for the following:
1. Here are a lot of mops in a box.
2. This is a sad man in a van with a pot of jam.
3. This is a mad rat in a bag of cans.
Teacher readers of this blog: Would you make your pupils draw pictures of such wierd scenes?
posted by John and Sharon @ 09:28
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5 Comments:
hahahaha! That's hilarious! I wish you had a camera! I'd love to see those pictures!!
I know they have to draw pictures to prove they understood what they've read but...I'd probably only have had her draw pictures if Heather had written the sentences completely herself..in other words those were her original thoughts on paper. ...and then I might wonder why she was thinking of mad rats in bags of cans... :)
Crazy! How complicated! But equally tricky...how do you draw fog?!
There area many things wrong with those sentences!! How would you draw a rat in a bag of cans? Is the rat in the cans or hanging around in the bag? Is the bag see through? And why would anyone be sad if they had a pot of jam in a van? I cannot WAIT to see these drawings!!
What a crazy exercise, I say. Is the point phonics or comprehension? The focus should have been on phonics, so playing around with the letters and words. She doesn't HAVE to understand such ridiculous sentences to still be able to learn the phonics rules. Stupid, I say. But entertaining nonetheless!!
I also agree that the drawing part just seems like busy work, but fun! I think Heather's sentences are very creatively written, can we see the drawings??!
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