WOL's Kiddie Kindergarten (today's lesson the letter J)

 

 

 

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Tchr.....good morning kiddies

 

Class:...good morning Miss

 

Tchr:....today is Johnny's day

           and we are looking at the letter J,

           the 10^th letter of our alphabet

 

Class:....???

 

Johnny:....I wanna be the first letter

               I wanna

               I wanna

               please can I ?

               please?

 

Mahal: Can I be the first letter miss?

 

Tchr:........your turn another day Mahal. Johnny today, Kevin you're tomorrow.

 

Kevin:......yay!

 

Tchr:.......now kiddies, I have a giant letter J here

 

Class:.......ooooooo

 

Tchr:.......now what word starts with the letter J ?

 

Johnny:......jiraffe?

 

Tchr:........no Johnny, that's giraffe

 

Class:........???

 

Johnny:......er, jug ?

 

Tchr:.......yes! well done Johnny

 

Class:.......yay! High-fives

 

Tchr:.......now here's a tricky one. You need to put your thinking caps on.

              What is a word ending in J ?

 

Class:..... think think mumble mumble

 

Mahal:.....taj miss ?

 

Tchr:........yes! well done Mahal

 

Class:........???

 

Tchr:........to consolidate (class: ???) our letter J let's all sing the J song. Music man...

 

Class...:.. J we love you yay yay yay

               Many words we learn today

              Taj we like but don't know why

               Jug makes sense we now sing bye

 

Tchr..........class dismissed

 

Laura:.......can I be number one? please?

 

Zebediah:..can I miss?

 

Tchr:.........I'm afraid you're at the end of the queue Zeb

 

Zeb...........???

 

 

Postscript

The letter “J” was not invented until the 1500’s, so there was no official Jesus, John, Jacob, Jonah, Joseph, Jude, etc… in the bible. So what's going on?

 

Don Matthews August 2019