Funny thing happened yesterday. I had this new class of middle school students, about 8 students from all grades and of course they were super shy. I started to ask some basic questions and there was mistakes everywhere so I decided that we would have a writing exercise - My Life Story.
I wrote up the sentences on the board and they copied it. I left blanks for their name and we had covered name, age, family, school, grade, and now moving onto favourite food. Of course naturally I asked the class what is your favourite food? A few seconds of silence pursued but it was finally broken when one kid said, in a hushed voice, spaghetti. I said very good and wrote it on the board. Any more I asked the class. No answer. So everybody's favourite food is spaghetti? Everybody laughed and the same continued for jobs (they all want to be a dentist
), their father is an office worker and mother is a house wife and they all hate bugs! Haha it will just take some time for them to open up to me.