12 Nov 2018 26 Comments
in #ronovansweeklyhaikuchallenge, Blogging 101, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #MicroPoetry, #ronovansweeklyhaikuchallenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Challenge, Haiku, tanka, Truth & Honour
Lovely Ron with his Haiku Challenge prompt words this week:
More of a tanka this week, rather than a haiku.
Honouring the lost
The truth of their whereabouts
Not exactly known
Mourning forgotten soldiers
Fallen heroes, no returnRitu 2018
10 Nov 2018 39 Comments
in #SoCS, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #StreamofConsciousnessSaturday, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Life of A Teacher, Mean(s), Nursery World, Socs
Linda’s prompt for SoCS this week…
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “mean(s).” Use it with or without the “s,” any way you’d like. Have fun!
In my job, it is an essential skill to be able to work out exactly what a child means.
At three or four, or even five, some children are just not that articulate.
Be it English is not their first language, or they have speech issues, or more generally, they are used to dumbed down vocabulary, they cannot always verbalise what they mean.
Questioning is a skill we really have to hone. From working out what they are trying to say, to recognising the object they have drawn, it’s only by our talk that we sometimes get to the bottom of it.
Believe me, I have seen some strange things in the past, as well as heard some weird things, which translate to normality, but what you first hear/see… OMG!
I loved a child telling he his dad was getting an electric chair for Christmas ( a gaming chair!), reading a sentence telling me the child “loved to taste cock” (Coke!), and that they enjoyed riding a dick (bike!)… and don’t get me started on the phallic drawings, scribbles and randoms, that I have to translate!
And all this has to be done with positivity. We don’t want a child to lose confidence if we just say “What on earth is that?” or “What did you say?”
Recently I noticed a poster in school, and to be honest, I want it in the nursery – it encapsulates what our reactions are to a lot of things the kids draw…
Perfect, isn’t it? You know what I mean?
Catch ya later Peeps! Happy Saturday!
https://lindaghill.com/2018/11/09/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-nov-10-18/
08 Nov 2018 28 Comments
in #WritePhoto, Blogging 101, Fiction, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #WritePhoto, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Calm
Sue’s #WritePhoto Prompt this week:
Calm
Serene
Ethereal
Crystal clear sky
A true autumn day
Water gently flowing
Lucious green banks beckoning
Offering a place to ponder
The mysteries of this life we lead
Meditation surrounded by natureRitu 2018
https://scvincent.com/2018/11/08/thursday-photo-prompt-calm-writephoto/
05 Nov 2018 20 Comments
in #ronovansweeklyhaikuchallenge, Blogging 101, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #MicroPoetry, #ronovansweeklyhaikuchallenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Challenge, Haiku, Question & Resolve, Senryu
Lovely Ron with his Haiku Challenge prompt words this week:
More of a senryu this week, rather than a haiku. The words didn’t lend themselves to nature!
Pixabay Image
I ask a question
Do you resolve to answer
Or taunt with silenceRitu 2018
03 Nov 2018 57 Comments
in #SoCS, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #StreamofConsciousnessSaturday, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Fresh Off The Boat, Point, Socs
Linda’s prompt for SoCS this week…
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “point.” Open a book on your lap, close your eyes, and put your finger on the page. Whatever you land on, whether it be a word, a phrase, or a sentence, write about it. Enjoy!
Book – Fresh Off The Boat by Eddie Huang
Word pointed at – Money
Oh, this makes me think back a couple of weeks to a story I touched upon in one of my Chai and a Chat posts…
A little while back, I was perusing my bank statement online, as you do, lamenting on the lack of money in my account.
I noticed an entry signalling a top up on my son’s mobile account for £15.
Fair enough, I usually do that every couple of months.
Then I noticed the entry below, for the date previous to the first. This time for £35.
Hmm…
Scrolling down, I realised that a total of £125 had been taken from my account over five weeks!
£125!!!
I had been wondering why my account seemed a little lighter than it usually did…
After blowing a gasket at him, (fully entitled to, I was) and hearing his answer, I realised that kids nowadays, especially those in middle and upper-class families really have no idea of the value of money.
He just saw a button on his app that said Top Up. So he clicked it, and it worked. So he did it again. And again. And again…
“I’m sorry, mummy, I just thought the money was there for me and I just had to press the button to get more credit!”
“No son, top up means something is empty, and you have to fill it up again! Where did you think the money came from?”
Of course, I’m made of money, aren’t I? Especially on a teachers salary!
Online payments, bank cards, touch and pay cards, they are all so convenient, but they also make you forget that you actually need money in the accounts before spending.
I think my generation may be one of the last to really understand cash. We used it a lot. We held it. We may have been paid it.
But now it’s all electronic, its value isn’t really concrete anymore. It’s just a vague idea. Because all you have to do is tap a button and things arrive. From shopping to food to a film, it’s all available to purchase.
One time, when he was a mere tot, he was obsessed, and I mean really obsessed, with Spiderman. He would spend ages playing with figures and watching videos online. He would browse all sorts. It was only when I received a notification from Ebay that I had successfully bid £250 for a lifesize bust sculpture of dear old Spidey, and I was required to pay it, did I realise that my account had been left logged in on my iPad!
Thankfully the seller saw the funny side and reversed the sale!
Money… Can’t live with it, can’t live without it!
Catch ya later Peeps! Happy Saturday!
https://lindaghill.com/2018/11/02/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-nov-3-18/
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