Story time for the kids... part I

A co-teacher of mine works with younger kids who are a little lower in their English abilities. One activity she had for the class was for each student to start with a sentence on a piece of paper and pass it on to the next student. No, it's not a game of "eat poopy cat" or telephone pictionary, but close. The next student will write another sentence to help complete a story, the concept of this activity is for students to be able to take what is already written and present a logical flow of ideas and plot. Unfortunately, the desired results were not produced, it was more an activity where note-passing in the classroom became permissible, so most students just wrote smart comments to each other. Posted here are a few of them, more may follow... Surprising, a common theme that came up were sentences about love, girlfriends, "good job", and "gay". Each page should have about 14-16 lines. Submitted for your viewing pleasure (all grammar and spelling errors were kept intact):

1. I think our school is too small
2. Shool have a small playground
3. school have a big can teen
4. school have big classrooms
5. school have small people
6. may be I think
7. What are you doing now
8. I'm go to WC
9. If you go to WC, please quickly!
10. You are big or small
11. I'm small
12. My heart is big
13. I don't think so
14. dinner for Dad's birthday.
15. Habby birthday.

A discussion of the school size turns into a discussion on the bathroom and then size, and finally a horribly misspelled birthday greeting? Here's another "gem".

1. I want to go to Year 1.
2. I don't hungry.
3. Do you siesta
4. Do you love me
5. No, I don't think so
6. I want to play you
7. love you too
8. Have you time tonight?
9. Yes, I have, and I will give you nice day.
10. I'm waiting for you
11. When are you come?
12. about winter
13. May be summer.
14. I think about winter too c 大约在冬季
15. It's very cold!
16. We have different topic.

This one dances on the edge of being sketchy, which is hard to imagine since the students are all about middle school aged. Of course, I'm surprised by "siesta" as well.

1. Good job!
2. There was a boy, he name is Jimmy.
3. He killed a boy named Tony.
4. Then Jimmy die.
5. So Jimmy's wife was so sad.
6. I don't know.
7. Do you know.
8. Yes I know him!!!
9. I don't think so
10. Jimmy will die too.
11. Good job!
12. Kill, kill, kill, good job.
13. ...good job...
14. Yeah
15. I like this story.
16. Do you like it!

That's enough for today... stay tuned for more!