“Teacher, Teacher!” the children call out as they strain to raise their hand higher than the other kids. Finally, Robai is chosen to answer.
“School!” she says, and the word is duly scribed on the board. Now the children call out words related to this first word and a spider-like mind map slowly fills the board. Once all the children have contributed a word to the map, they settle down to write sentences using words in the mind map.