Day 55 - July 8, 2010 - Outside the Box

"When you think outside the box, the box goes away." - Anonymous

"Oh, Miss Megan. There you go again. Thinking outside of the box," my 3rd grader exclaimed today as I was teaching her about adjectives. I made up a sentence about an angry platypus punching a fish. I can't imagine what she was talking about! I think that is part of the reason she likes coming to tutoring, though. I've tried the whole, "write a paragraph about such-and-such" method. It's not nearly as fun as what we did today. We also drew pictures of some of our favorite sentences that we created. I drew the platypus and colored it purple. She kept laughing at me. I don't understand why!

When you're teaching, thinking outside of the box is necessary. If you don't do it, you'll never capture the child's attention or imagination.