This adorable scene was witnessed during one of our math classes yesterday…

Kiddo: “Oh, not math! I can’t do it!”
Teacher: “Well if you can’t do it, then a puppet can. Go pick out a puppet to play.”
Kiddo: “Okay!” (Kiddo brings back enough puppets for each student in the class to also use if they’d like.)
Teacher: “Okay everybody, we need one puppet to be the leader. Who wants to be the leader for this game?” 

Kiddo: “I do!” She said, using her puppet. The kiddo proceeded to do a great job learning while doing the math exercises and games using the puppet to speak her questions and answers–and the rest of the students joined right in with her. They all accomplished a lot of learning together that way. And the truth is, this particular kiddo is afraid of math but she’s really pretty good at it. There is a lesson for us adults in there, too. 🙂

Arnie Airmail