An exciting Kindie class today. We're learning "pick up your book", "put down your book", "open your bookbag", "close your bookbag". I like to use real items in the class with plenty of TPR (Total Physical Response, where you physically interact with the language target. For example, teaching colours, "Touch the red crayon, touch the blue crayon", they learn the different between 'red' and 'blue' by physical interaction with real items). We pick up our dictionaries ('book', I like to make my little girls stronger, not just smarter. Btw it's an all girl class. Sometimes we twirl around so our skirts go up around our waist, or rather they do, sometimes we do weight lifting by picking up full sized, soft cover English-Japanese dictionaries. It's all about balance). We throw our dictionaries on the table, 'put down your book'. "Pick up your book, put down your book. Open your book, close your book. Pick up your book, open your book", much giggling ensues as they try to open the soft covered books while the books are up over their heads, "put down your book", throw, thud, "close your book". It was great fun. Then we moved to the floor with our book bags, "open you bookbag, close your bookbag". By now the girls are copying my speech. Minatsu (she has fabulous blue sparkly clittity clacitty shoes that I can always tell when she has arrived at the school, thank goodness for the Japanese tradition of removing shoes outside of the classroom) decided to go with it, "open, open, open". I was happy. They had figured out "open", fabulous. Then Mei (pronounced like 'May') joined in, "open, open, oppai, tee hee, oppai, oppai, tee hee, oppai". The other girls then joined her chant, "oppai, oppai, oppai, tee hee, oppai". Fabulous. I've lost control again. I was laughing so hard, they were laughing so hard. I was concerned that a parent would walk by the class and hear it and wonder what the hell was going on in my class. We switched activities really quick, "soooo, let's sing a song!!".
Key to understanding this story...oppai.
Def'n: Breasts
