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6 thoughts on “Some Invisibles”
One of our very best stories last year involved one of the characters on this list – Lintus Lint. A ball of lint in our classroom, he was sucked up into the vacuum and his 200 daughters had a difficult time getting him out. (He eventually got out and became a favorite for the whole year.)
All these names sound very cute…in English, such as “Lintus Lint”. I’m assuming you leave their names in English because it wouldn’t have the same ring to it otherwise. But I’m just wondering, during the story, do you give kids the word for “lint” or not bother?
Thanks.
Not one French student including their teacher in that school last year knew, knows or probably will ever know the word for lint. I actually teach the language, not individual words.
I love knowing odd words but sometimes it is a burden to teach them. Tho, last year’s class did love learning racoon.
I would love a large mint green tea cup.
I have the original clay Mint Green Tea right here on my desk, Susan. It’s slightly bigger than a kernel of popped popcorn. Those characters are a life long bond between me and those kids (now 7th graders). We will Skype from their class (directly across the hall from Linda Li’s classroom) Tues. nite and show them the characters they so graciously gave to me at the end of the year last year. We shared laughs and life last year. It was not a burden, like when I felt that I had to teach certain words.
I would add that the bond built between us by these characters was not with 5 or 7 of the kids, as happens in the old way. Every single kid in the classes that did the Invisibles last year gave smiles and love to the characters that we developed in stories. Every single one.