Cake Wrecks, World Educator
June 3, 2009 I thought you guys might appreciate this e-mail I got today:
Hi Jen,
A friend of mine posted a link to your site, (and) I think I spent about 3 hours yesterday going though your blog when I was supposed to be working on lesson plans for the English class I teach. I am an American English teacher at a big elementary school not far from Seoul, South Korea. My Korean coworkers heard me laughing so hard that they came over to my desk to investigate. Clever as I am, I told them I was working on my next lesson, which I wasn't... until I realized that I WAS!
So today, I decided to ditch the book and instead teach grammar and spelling mistakes from Cake Wrecks. The fourth and fifth graders loved it, and the students were able to correct about 90% of the mistakes! How embarrassing that even Korean elementary school students know better!
Thanks for the great teaching material!
- Carolyn H.
The Cake Wrecks pop quiz - gotta love it.
Here the children are wondering how the U.S. ever became a world power.
(The answer, of course, is Whoopie Pies.)
Carolyn, thanks for helping to spread the Wreckage on such a global scale. Why, by influencing these young minds you've made our bid for ultimate Wrecky world domination that much easier! Tell me, did you perchance introduce the kiddos to their friendly neighborhood Carrot Jockeys?
Reader Comments (102)
*claps* Yay!!
Anonymous wanted suggestions for a Spanish version of Cake Wrecks-
My suggestion is to have your students create their own Spanish Wrecks, then have other students in the class or from different classes try to guess what the mistakes were. : )
Lauren