The past week has been pretty fun, since our teachers have been really open about trying out different, creative teaching methods. We've been doing fun stuff like:
Name-Place-Thing-Food Game
Mamta-Ji gives us letters and we have a minute to write down a Name-Place-Thing-Food for each letter. This game is so much easier when you don't have 5 possible "D" and "T" and 2 possible "B" "P" "K" and "J" consonants...
Pictionary
Rajindra-Ji gives us a category (part of speech), and we have to think of a word and draw it on the board.
Mine was "bajana" - to play an instrument (middle)Dodie's was "seekhana" - to teach (bottom, left)
Marc's was "jagarna" - to fight (top left)
Rajindraji's was "paseena" - sweat (bottom right)
Story-Time!
We listened to a terrible rendition of "The Monkey & the Crocodile" in Hindi, where one narrator insisted on doing the voices of all the characters and sounded like she was melting.
Cartoons
The Indian cartoons that we watched were each about 5 minutes long and had really annoying "morals" at the end of each story including:
An eagle and a fox were really good friends. They used to eat meat together on the floors of the forest. But then one day, the eagle was really greedy. She was really hungry and decided to steal one of the fox's babies, and bring it to his nest to feed his baby birdies fox bits (I thought baby birds ate worms?). The fox was very angry but didn't know what he could do. One day, the eagle saw some meat that was heating on a coal fire in the forest and stole that too. He came to the nest and put the slab of meat inside the nest, but because it was hot and heavy, the nest fell to the ground and all the baby eagles fell to the ground and got smashed. From the corner of a bush, the fox emerged with red eyes... and ate all of the eagle's dead birds. The moral of the story:
Seriously... couldn't they have had a less morbid way of teaching these lessons?
xx
Marc's was "jagarna" - to fight (top left)
Rajindraji's was "paseena" - sweat (bottom right)
Story-Time!
We listened to a terrible rendition of "The Monkey & the Crocodile" in Hindi, where one narrator insisted on doing the voices of all the characters and sounded like she was melting.
Cartoons
The Indian cartoons that we watched were each about 5 minutes long and had really annoying "morals" at the end of each story including:
- "Look before you leap" = a sheep decided to jump into a well after a fox told him how nice it was inside. Then he couldn't get out; the fox said that he was a fool and didn't help him.
- "Birds of a feather flock together" = a bird got caught in a net and tried to convince the hunter that he didn't even know the other birds. The hunter killed him anyway
- "One man's joy is another man's pain" = a group of boys kept throwing rocks at frogs and smashing them to death. When the frog asked him not to because they were all dying, the boys said no. The end.
- "Please all and you will please no one" = a story where a donkey ends up plunging to his death from a bridge bc he was tied to a stick and couldn't free himself to swim
- "The God's help them who help themselves" = what does this even mean??
An eagle and a fox were really good friends. They used to eat meat together on the floors of the forest. But then one day, the eagle was really greedy. She was really hungry and decided to steal one of the fox's babies, and bring it to his nest to feed his baby birdies fox bits (I thought baby birds ate worms?). The fox was very angry but didn't know what he could do. One day, the eagle saw some meat that was heating on a coal fire in the forest and stole that too. He came to the nest and put the slab of meat inside the nest, but because it was hot and heavy, the nest fell to the ground and all the baby eagles fell to the ground and got smashed. From the corner of a bush, the fox emerged with red eyes... and ate all of the eagle's dead birds. The moral of the story:
Seriously... couldn't they have had a less morbid way of teaching these lessons?xx
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