animal instincts

in my morning class with "les grands" (they call them the big ones, but actually they're only 10 or 11 years old...), we did animals.

we quickly went through the list of 10 animals.

and we played a game.

i asked one kid to come up, told him the name of an animal, he had to imitate for the class and then they would guess what this animal was.

first up, the girl just moved her arms a tiny bit.

then everyone was yelling out their own versions of the answer.

- butterfly.

- no.

- fish?

- no, fish don't have wings.

- penguin?

- no, penguins don't fly.

- euh, on sais pas, maîtresse (we don't know, miss).

- c'est quelque chose qui vole. (it's something that flies - and i finally failed half of my mission of being an english teacher cos i just speak french with them most of the time.)

- je sais, je sais, un oiseau!

- yes, but in english, that is?

- the bird!

- yes, and you say a bird, not the bird.

we then guessed tiger, lion, elephant, fox, monkey.

they all went well.

the story gets better when we got to snake.

when i pointed at the picture of a snake, he just lay down on his chest immediately and started moving like a snake...

well done! the cleaner lady loves you, kid!

and this is not all, it gets even better when we did dog.

a girl volunteered to come up.

as i was wondering how she would do it, she was already on her knees, hands on the floor too.

and all of the sudden, she raised her right leg, and did what you'll only see dogs do to a lamp post.

it was such a hilarious moment, the class just went out of control.

then 2 kids volunteered to do a cat and a dog, before i knew it, they started chasing each other on knees and hands, under the desks across classroom.

the class went officially crazy after that, they started doing all sorts of weird things that you'll probably only see on national geographic channel or at the zoo...

i think that they're still going through the period of not realising themselves as humans but as little animals.

i like that.