LOST IN TRANSLATION

We decided to introduce a little bit of Scotland into our lesson plans this week by learning the children ’10 green bottles’. Unfortunately we didn’t have any green bottles but not to be defeated we decided to use our growing store of water bottles. The song was now 10 ‘big’ bottles. And to emphasis the ‘big’ concept we took along a ‘small’ water bottle as contrast. Thinking we’d been very clever and covered all possible problems, you can only imagine our frustration when things didn’t go exactly to plan.

We introduced the song easily. The kids are quick to learn and love any songs or tunes we learn them. After only two times hearing me sing ’10 big bottles’ they had it. Moving onto the ‘sitting on the wall’ part was equally quick. Resting on our proverbial laurels we smugly went for a full run though only to find that instead of singing ‘sitting on the wall’ we hear the children sing ‘sitting on the water’. No big deal right? But after several corrections where they all dutifully sang ‘sitting on the wall’ only to warp it back into ‘sitting on the water’ as soon as we re-introduced the tune... Matt and I had to admit defeat.  Some things aren’t worth labouring – there frankly isn’t enough hours in one month!