Blog 10

This chapter is one that interested me a lot. I was never one to talk in the classroom. I always let other kids in the class be the ones to talk. Even if nobody else was willing to talk and I knew the answer I still never talked. I'm not really sure why I did this but I know that a lot of people still do this today. The only time I ever talked in class was in Spanish. This was because we played pinzas. In the class we all had a clothes pin. When we walked in we put it on, that meant we could only speak is spanish. If we said anything in English we would lose our pinza to the the person who heard us. At the end of the class we would count up the number of pinzas that we had and we would get extra credit. The catch was if we didn't speak at all our teacher would get to take our pinza. This made us all excited and the class was sure to get involved at talk. It was also a great way for us to learn new vocabulary because we would have to look up words that we didn't know. I'm not sure how I will get kids talking in my class. As bad as it sounds I will probably have to bribe them with candy or extra credit. If not most kids won't get involved. Having conversation in the classroom is a vital part to learning and I firmly believe that it is necessary for learning.