Shel Silverstein - The Giving Tree

Know whats best about teaching a small group of girls without teaching officially in a school?
I get to teach WHAT EVER I WANT; WHEN EVER I WANT.
so, yesterday the girls learned a little bit about me when i was a girl, about a famous author in the states, about guarani, and about environmental education. All this through the beautiful simple words of Shel Silverstein and translated into guarani by a Bill Bryon, former volunteer.
Well, truth is that the girls had a lot of issues reading the story. It was guarani guarani and not the mix of guarani -spanish. They struggled and read it twice but i felt, after i discussed what it meant for me as a child: a story about the heart is how i translated it, they soon understood that this tree had given its life, its body for this little boy.

Tomorrows class is how to make southern bisquits!! and english vocabulary of the kitchen!!

education fights injustice, heheh one bisquit at a time...

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