The Mythic Vision

Thursday morning: a Grade One French Immersion class. The children have spent part of the previous day doing a collage on space. A sheet of shiny silver paper is suspended over one of the blackboards and their cutout drawings of space creatures and planets are taped on top. When it comes to journal-writing time the children suggest two topics: Les animaux and l’espace.  But what about “Les animaux dans l’espace”? This idea elicits a few chuckles as the children imagine horses in astronaut suits, or cows browsing on the moon. Then Ashton, sitting in the front row, reverses the combination and comes up with “L’espace dans les animaux.”