Recently I got hooked up with some chances to tell about China in a nearby elementary school. It’s always fun to go back and teach once in a while. During the school year I teach a large group lesson to 1-6th grade at our church on Wednesday nights. I enjoy taking material and coming up with creative and interesting ways to present it. So my sister-in-law’s sister-in-law (in my family we call these our outlaws) is a teacher and asked me to help out with their school’s Field Day. The kids cycled through presentations about different countries. I spent one day teaching 1st grade and another day giving 12 presentations to 2nd-5th graders. Here are a few of the fun discussions we had…
Student: Are there ninja’s in China?
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Me: Why do you think the Chinese people would build such a big, long, strong, Great Wall?
Student: Maybe Jesus told them to.
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Student: Are there ferocious animals in China?
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Student: Do they have Chinese noodles in China?
Me: Yes, they do
Student’s very excited response: I knew it!!
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Me: Are there any other questions?
Student: My dog just had puppies!
Awesome Aunt Jenn happens to live close to the school I taught at and watched Aaron and Audrey for me. Thank you Jenn!
- - 1 2 Exercise!
- - Decatur Zoo
- - First Campout
- - Where We've Been 1
- - Where We've Been 2
- - Where We've Been 3
- - "Real" Timeout
- - Growing and Talking
- - Aaron napping
- - 2 years old!
- - Fun Things To Do Indoors With Friends
- - Fun things to do indoors
- - Starbucks Fail or What I Learned in ther Year 2009
- - Bye Bye Ms Rachel
- - Winter Activities
- - Christmas 09
- - Audrey's Stocking
- - Santa
- - Aaron Driving
- - New Cousin!
- - St Louis Again
- - My thumbs
- - Taking Turns and Carving a Pumpkin
- - Pumpkins and Sentences
- - Outside
- - Fun things to do!
- - Regressing in sleep?
- - Audrey loves her name
- - Blog Cramming
- - Sad Baby
- - Being silly
- - Arkansas Tourists
- - Vacation in Arkansas
- - Cinncinnati
- - July pictures
- - Aaron and the Fountain
- - Aunt Margo
- - 16 months
- - Summer Fun
- - Baby Leno
- - Playing with the stroller
- - What we're up to
- - Back in the Classroom (for a day)
- - Audrey at the zoo
- - Mini Vacation in St Louis
- - Mother's Day
- - Raiding the bib drawer
- - Easter Day
- - Family
- - Spring Fun
- - April in the Park
- - Find the Hidden Object
- - Audrey's Hair
- - More words and the magic poop
- - Taking a Walk
- - How to Call Poison Control
- - I took my first step (again!)
- - Look what I can do!
- - Welcome Spring (sort of)
- - Birthday Details
- - Birthday Teaser
- - Brushing my teeth
- - Cool shirts
- - Audrey
- - What's going on
- - My First Fad
- - Teeth
- - Christmas in Arkansas Pictures
- - Christmas Part 2 - Arkansas
- - Christmas Travels Part 1
- - Teeth, fevers, and modern medicine
- - Happy Twins
- - A double banana!
- - Where's that cheerio?
- - Funny antlers
- - Great Job, Nathan!
- - Some Christmas Pictures
- - Nine Months Old
- - Stuck Inside
- - A message we received
- - Not a Normal Post
- - A New Season
- - Various & Sundry: Groceries, Fevers, and the Church Nursery
- - 8 months old! (and more Oct pictures)
- - Pumpkins and Photos
- - Downtime and Comcast
- - More October Pictures
- - Some October Pictures
- - Sitting
- - Birthdays
- - 7 months
- - More pictures, less words
- - Comments from Strangers
- - Congratulations Jessica
- - Goodbye Friends
- - Family Photo
- - Sleeping Babies & More
- - Proving Daddy wrong
- - 6 Months!
- - My take on the Olympics
- - We love the library
- - Both smiling and laughing
- - Anguna DS
- - Groovy Baby
- - Gumming
- - 5 Months!
- - Almost 5 Months
- - Cat noises from Audrey
- - How Facebook is like Harry Potter
- - Playing basketball
- - A yucky look at life with a twin brother
- - Cameras and Rolling
- - Meeting Great Grandpa
- - 4 months
- - First Overnighter
- - Twins, Babysitters, and Twin Babysitters
- - More about Anguna
- - Smiling Babies
- - Family Project: Garden
- - Mama Said There'd Be Days Like This
- - All night long
- - Trip to Indiana
- - Welcome You to America
- - 3 Months
- - Picture of Audrey
- - Happiest day ever
- - Funny Things People Say
- - The Best Advice
- - On Having Twins
- - Anguna
- - Play time and Smiles
- - State of the Tolberts Address
- - Family Photo
- - Free Stuff for Twins
- - 7 Weeks
- - Happy and Awake
- - 6 Weeks Old
- - Sleep and Schedules
- - Holy Cow
- - Grieving with Family
- - Family visits
- - Time to make the doughnuts
- - Blessed by others
- - Elf-Children
- - All grown up
- - Photo Shoot and Chubby Cheeks
- - Baby Anti-Monitor
- - Aren't they cute?
- - Shown Actual Size
- - Almost a week...
- - Back home & more
- - Hospital photos
- - Aaron and Audrey
- - Our babies are born!
- - Prego Line Up
- - Twin Practice
- - 7 Months
- - Classes and Piles of Babies
- - Ultimate Frisbee Guy
- - 6 Months Pregnant with Twins
- - Big Ole Belly
- - Family Cmas in Arkansas
- - Snow
- - Marshallese Blessing
- - Sights of China
- - 5 Months
- - 4 Months
- - Costume Party
- - Twins!
- - Baby Time!
- - The Weaving
- - Lack of Updates
- - Texas Wedding
- - Cambodia
- - We're Back!
- - China FAQs
- - Building a Salad
- - Wedding
- - Microwave Oven
- - Macau
- - School Lunch
- - Chinese Driving
- - Translation Game
- - Foot Massages
- - Hong Kong Retreat
- - Thailand Day Trip
- - Thailand Pictures
- - Grocery Store Tour
- - Donkey Sandwich
- - Hello, English?
- - Game Night
- - New Years Eve
- - Joy to the World
- - Starry Hingglory
- - Bad Hair
- - Lawsuit
- - Appointments
- - Bike part 2
- - The Tiny
- - The Social Event of the Season
- - Break-in?
- - Mister Uncle
- - Common Household Items
- - Xining Trip
- - Jamming
- - Mid-Autumn Festival
- - Chinese Fire Drill!
- - Missing Bicycle
- - Funny Quotes
- - Sleeping
- - Read-a-holic
- - Crime
- - Back from vacation
- - Public Service Announcements
- - Karaoke
- - That's Entertainment!
- - New Apartment
- - Test Time!
- - Rice
- - Daisy
- - People say the strangest things
- - When in China....
- - Video Games
- - Slideshow mode
- - Moving
- - Snakes?
- - Another foreigner....
- - Fido Dido
- - Crest Toothpaste
- - Family Adventures
- - My family is here!
- - Kung Fu Hustle
- - Rules of the Road
- - Bus Wreck
- - La and Ma
- - Happy Birthday!
- - Buying Shoes
- - More pictures
- - Indian Restaurant
- - Splendid China
- - Report Team Activity
- - Curly Fries
- - Every day is interesting
- - Doin' the pigeon
- - New Look!
- - Update about work