Um dia...

This week we worked with a poem by Arnaldo Antunes with one of our classes of 10-11 year-olds:

Um dia

1) sujar o pé de areia pra depois lavar na água
2) esperar o vaga-lume piscar outra vez
3) ouvir a onda mais distante po trás da mais próxima
4) não esperar nada acontecer
5) se chover, tomar chuva
6) caminhar
7) sentir o sabor do que comer
8) ser gentil com qualquer pessoa
9) barbear-se no final da tarde
10) ao se deitar para dormir, dormir

(Arnaldo Antunes is a poet but also a musician and artist, he worked with Marisa Monte and Carlinhos Brown as the Tribalistas...)

So we asked the kids to do the same thing as him: list 10 things that they would like to do one day, 10 desires.... The result was great, here are some of their sentences:

One day....

Walk on top of an elephant
Ride a giraffe
Have a strawberry milkshake
Go to the cinema
Jump into a river that's clean and blue*
Know how to sing in French
Go to Paris to have fun
Buy a country house for my mum and dad
Swim in a sea of chocolate
Take my girlfriend to have an ice-cream

*See picture above for explanation