What is that?

What can I say? Sometimes my students get some really interesting Christmas gifts and I may ask them to bring them to share, because I want to see what it is or what it looks like. For example last year, one of the girls got a doll that she said could breathe. Sure enough she had a baby doll that looked like a real baby breathing. In fact parents picking up their children at the end of the day thought it was a real baby.

This year the hot ticket Christmas item was a fushigi. Gwen wrote in a morning journal before Christmas about wanting one. I had no idea what it was, so I looked it up on youtube. When Gwen announced that she got one for Christmas, I asked her to bring it in. Secretly, I thought I could do all the things on the youtube video. Let me tell you, the people in the video are quite talented, I have not figured it out yet. When it was time for Spanish, Gwen lent me her fushigi ball to try and do the tricks that they did in the video. I carried it while walking with the kids to Spanish.

When we got to Spanish, Mrs. F. sees what is in my hands and asks what it was. Forgetting what it was called I turn towards Gwen and ask her what it was, she says, "A fushigi ball." The rest of the children yell, "it's a rip off."

Mrs. F. looks at the children, who continue to say, "it's a rip off."

Then one of the children says you are supposed to be able to roll it on your arm. Mrs. F. tries this.

What can I say? The people in the video made the fushigi ball look so simple to do tricks, my class is quite disappointed because they were hoping to be able to do the same tricks. Maybe in a couple weeks Gwen will have mastered the fushigi and give the other children a show, then they won't think it is a rip off.