More duct tape, less time outs

L & L time is where I sacrifice my warm lunch every Thursday in the name of saturating the kids with English while they are eating. This week I wrote my own picture book with a quiz in it. We have to help Mr Kiwi find out where he lives. I am sure the grade 6s will be suitably unimpressed, but the grade 1s will love it and we can't please everyone now can we? I wouldn't mind doing it so much if I didn't know that my lunch was sitting upstairs on a desk getting cold while kids stick their various grotty body parts into it.

It is really quite fantastic the way the teachers can treat the kids here. Up in the classroom earlier one of the kids was being bloody noisy and the teacher just decided to tape his mouth shut with duct tape. He even went so far as to draw a mouth on the tape, along with a moustache and related finery. It was hilarious! That kid needed shutting up though, he is seriously loud. He is also the fat kid who eats any leftovers at lunch time before anyone else has a chance. In all the other grades the kids play paper, scissors, rock to decided who gets extras, but in this class it is just first in best dressed. In fact everything here is decided by that game, they called in janken and I reckon this country would still be in the dark ages if it weren't used to decide everything from who gets leftovers to who speaks first at important meetings. Without janken they would still all be standing around saying "what do we do? Who goes first??"