Star Wars: According to a 3-year-old

Posted on April 1st, 2008 by Anna Zhan.
Categories: Blog, Kids Say, Movies, Star Wars.

This is brilliant.  A 3-year-old’s brilliant father broke up Star Wars (episode 4) into three manageable sections and sat his daughter down on three separate days to watch them.

Watch this video here.  Her retell of the story puts my 5th graders to shame.

While this has not changed my goal of never shoving small animals out of my body (yeah, I know, waiting for that dreaded internal clock to kick in,) I’ve decided that if I do ever have children, or maybe run a daycare, I’m going to subject every child to all the classics (such as Star Wars and Indiana Jones) at the age of three.

The child is SO quotable…

“Kinda like garage sale, except they’re selling robots.”
(Describing the Jawas selling droids)

“The shiny guy always worries.”
(Describing C-3PO)

“And Obi-Kenobi’s kind of teacher.”

“But don’t talk back to Darth Vader: he’ll getchya!”

“It’s an exciting movie.”
(Referring, of course, to Star Wars.)

And I love how she says “we blowed it up together” in reference to the destruction of the Death Star…oh, she’s making personal connections!  I’m such a geeky teacher!  The child is brilliant and I inexplicably love her and wish she was in my class.

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Kids Say: 10-year-olds Are Not Ready for World Domination

Posted on December 5th, 2007 by Anna Zhan.
Categories: Blog, Kids Say.

…sometimes I feel guilty for choosing teaching as my career…  What gives me the right to spend my days twisting and corrupting other peoples’ children?

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[I was discussing some new ELA test prep we were starting…]

Anna: “…you’re going to do great, you’re going to ace this test, and then move on for world domination!”

Student: “Um, Miss Zhan, we can’t dominate the world.”

Anna: “Sure you can!  You can do anything!  Don’t limit yourself.”

Student: “Yeah, but we can’t take over the world.  We’re just kids.”

Anna: “Nonsense!  I’ve been planning my world domination since I was 14!”

Student: “Really?”

Anna: “Of course!”

Student: “She’s just kidding.”

Anna: “No, I’m not!  I’ve got it all planned out.  I’ll start by building my secret layer.  It will be hidden in my house.  And I’ll have bookshelves from floor to ceiling, all full!”

Student: “You read that many books?”

Anna: “You have to, if you’re going to dominate the world.”

Student: “Oh, I should read more…”

Anna: “You should.  And I’ll have a great big projector screen on one wall, and a giant world map to plot out my world domination on the opposite wall - ”

Student: “You should have a Smart Board.”

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HA!  Got ‘em hooked on the idea!  Get ‘em while they’re young, eh?

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