Sunday, May 29, 2011

Wisdom from the Staircase

At my school (as I'm sure is the case in many schools in Korea), English stories, sayings, or life lessons are often posted in ascending order up and down the many staircases. I'll admit that it's a clever way to expose children to English each and everyday, but for various reasons, these colored strips of paper never fail to give me a chuckle.

Sometimes it's because time has taken its toll, and certain parts of the 'story' have been lost or mixed up, as is the case with this one, which I face every day as I ascend the 4 flights to my classroom:

Brown bear, brown bear
(step)
What do you see?
(step)
I see a red bird
(step)
Looking at me
(step)
Red bird, red bird
(step)
What do you see?
(step)
I see a yellow duck
(step)
Yellow duck, yellow duck
(step)
What do you see?
(step)
I see a black sheep
(step)
You're fantastic!

Either that, or my only childish mind makes them funnier when I start to 'fill in the blanks,' as I do each day as I walk back up from the bathroom and see this gem:

What's brown?
(step)
Cocoa is brown.
(step)
Cookies are brown.
(step)
Almonds are brown.
(step)
Chocolate is brown.

I know something else that's brown...

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