I have the great privilege of teaching the first grade genius class in our afternoon program. I want to share a couple of their recent writing assignments.
The first one is written by a little girl named Sunny, who is extremely bright, and more dramatic than anyone I met in my time at junior high and high school. Even though English is her second language, she knows exactly what syllables to emphasize when she's angry. She's also very affectionate. I have to pry her off of my arm almost daily.
Anyway, the topic: "What if your toys could talk?"
If my toyes could talk, my toyes will ask me "Why do you want to be very smart? We are lonely while you are studying." So, I answered them "Because all of my classmates are good at studying!" The next day my toyes said "How old are you? We forget what age are you." So I said "You silly toyes! I am eight you know! Now no more question to me!" And they stoped.
Martin often comes to school in his Taekwondo uniform, and he smiles a lot, exposing one of his half-grown front teeth. (I love how children are unfazed, proud, even, of their missing or incomplete teeth) He also knows the answer to every question. I'm pretty sure in a few years his intelligence is going to surpass mine--I feel ill-equipped to be his teacher. On Teacher's Day he gave me a card that said "Thank you for teaching us about verb and adjectives, and for giving us journals." He really loves writing his weekly journal. On one of our writing assignments he was supposed to complete the sentence that began "I love..." and he wrote. "writing journals." In all areas--brightness, enthusiasm, cuteness--he is a teacher's dream student.
The topic: "Where do the stars go during the day?"
Stars go to Seoul Grand park during the daytime, because there is a zoo, shows, parks and more fun things. Stars may have fun at the parks. They could play hide-and-seek. They could each draw three drawings of pictures. They would eat lunch almost filled of carrots and made of potatoes at the restaurant called Mcdonard. They would eat hamburgers. They may have stomachache because they ate too much so they rested a long while. They rode the bus to Incheon Grand Park and met monkeys, and sharks that want to eat them. They were having so much fun that they forgot to share their names. One star said first, I'm the north star. Except one star every star shared their name. But the last star didn't say anything. Finally the last star said I......am......the...sun. I know the names of all the planets. Every single star laughed the sun. The sun said Murcury, Vinus, Earth, Mars, Jupitar, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and finally, Pluto. Everyone stopped laughing and then became surprised. they wondered. How can that sun know all of the planets name? After that moment, the stars didn't laugh at the sun. They tried to become friends with the sun, and played with sun. The sun got happier and then gave light and heat. they went to the beach for a short moment. They were happy and joyful. After that time, they did not forget that moment until they die.
-Andrea
