Things I didn't know when I was at school
When I was a kid at school, I used to think teachers knew everything ... or at least, all the stuff they were teaching. Now that I'm a teacher, I realise that they only knew it all because they looked up the answers in the teacher's book just before the lesson started !!!
So today, I've been learning all the stuff I'll be teaching to the kids next week in immersion (project work) - I now know all about Johnny Appleseed (sort of half-fictional half-factual folk hero who went about planting apple seeds all over the northern states of the US with his cooking pot on his head !!!), Louisiana (also known as the Pelican State whose state flag is a mother pelican feeding baby pelicans in a nest, to represent the state looking after its citizens), where hurricanes start and what to pack in an emergency kit in case of tornadoes .... the only thing is, I've survived all these years without knowing any of that so do they really need to learn this stuff?!!!