Can I read it while they are all working?

Most of us will agree we need to pay full attention to the speaker who is giving a presentation or reading to us. Tara surprised me in today's class.

Tara is usually very quiet and not willing to speak in front of her classmates. She nodded today when I asked her to share her writing. 

'Let's give Tara a big round of applause!' All the little eyes were looking enthusiastically at Tara. 

Tara was quiet. She was very quiet. 

Quietly, she said, 'Can I read it while they are all working?' 

Oh! 'Let's all go back to our work, children." Bugbug was writing his story again. Bitbit was working on his worksheets and Twist was reading a passage on the Moon. No one was looking at Tara. 

Tara's soft voice was floating in the air, echoing with her relief and her satisfaction.

Twist is a Chinese Bug!

Twist is a Chinese Bug. His Chinese name is 春秋。He is a bug from the famous Spring and Autumn Period.

In the famous Spring and Autumn Period, people in China loved to think and they loved to learn. What is more, just like Twist, people loved sports and a lot of them were very good at archery.

In this period, there were a lot of schools of thought. The major schools were: Confucianism, Mohism, Taoism, Legalism, Sophists, Military Treatises, Yin and Yang, Divine Farmer and Persuaders. They are still very important schools of thought in Chinese philosophy. And we are still reading them and learning from them.

Do you like Twist? Do you want to be a good thinker and a good sportsman? Practise and think; think and practise.

i-Learner Bookworms

There are four bookworms at i-Learner. They are: Bugbug, Bitbit, Tara and Twist.

Bugbug loves reading all sorts of books. Tara loves reading English books only. She really doesn't like reading Chinese books. Bitbit reads only music notes or books about music. Twist loves books on sports and he is very keen on Chinese classics. He is our Chinese bug as well.

These bookworms are very good friends. They love each other. Nobody complains why Bitbit reads only music notes and nobody laughs at Tara's dislike of Chinese books. Tara doesn't like reading Chinese books but she loves running together with Twist!