Hang Man
"Miss. H, can we play Hang Man today?"
"Are you packed up Joe?", Joe nodes his head.
"Ok, Joe."
"Yay!" Joe runs to erase the black
board. The other children are noisily packing up. Joe is
ecstatic. The kids guess his words and he begins bouncing up and
down clapping his hands. I promised DeAndre he could go
next. DeAndre chooses the word "workbook". All the students
know it's work book because they saw him count the letters on the
workbook.
"W" guesses Chelsea.
Seeing what will happen I jump in "Z".
"NO!" says De Andren who unlike Joe does not want the children to guess the word.
"Workbook" guesses Shamel.
"No, you have to guess the letters, right Miss. H!"
"Yes, everybody guess letters."
"Watermelon!" guesses Tremaine.
"No, what's wrong with you" chimes in
Terrence. "Its workbook, he copied it off that." he says
pointing. "O".
"Yes", says DeAndre putting an O on the board.
"P" says Natalie.
"Nope"
"Workbook! It's workbook!!!" Shamel exclaims frantically.
"You have to guess letters!!!"
"Miss H we all know it's workbook. He's done."
"You have to guess letters." yells DeAndre. At
this point even my frustration level is high. I tell the class
you know its workbook, you know you have to guess letters, just guess
the letters in the word workbook.
"J"
Mrs. M and myself just start laughing. Michael
begins laughing because we're laughing. Only Chelsea and Terrrence
get that all they have to do is guess the letters for the word
workbook. The room gets noisy with frustration and letters flying
everywhere. Chelsea and TErrence are just trying to get DeAndre's
attention because they know what to do. The room is buzzing when
they finally get the letters on the board. As soon as its up,
someone says "See! I told you it was workbook!" I shoo the
busers out of the room and it quiets.
Comments (1)
I think they all need language therapy. They are all dyslexic. We should advocate for them to get 504!
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