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What's Your Superpower?

Time:2017-04-22 22:13Writer:Alicia Click: times

This week we have been looking at superheroes and their superpowers. We studied the english names of these superheroes and the various adjectives to describe them. These include whether or not they are super fast, super strong or super smart!


When we consider the lives of these superheroes, often they go around as normal people; Superman - living as Clark Kent and working as a journalist, Spiderman - really Peter Parker working as a photographer, Batman - who is Bruce Wayne, a wealthy party boy. If anyone saw these people within their day to day lives - they would not suspect that these common people really were superheroes who were going around saving people from various crimes.


When we get to thinking about this, we can then start to wonder what "superpowers" do people have within themselves. I was in a class a couple of weeks ago and I noticed an impressive sketch hanging on the wall. It was beautiful and I was able to see that this picture was in an essence the "superpower" belonging to one of the children. These children are so incredibly gifted in numerous ways, some of them have the ability to do marvellous creations through art, some through music. Some have the ability to score the winning goal or hoop. Some of them may be able to invent things, creating new worlds of imagination. In one of the lessons where we looked at monsters to focus on body parts I saw incredible creations - children who made monsters with exorbitant amounts of eyes or legs or who created new creatures not thought of before. That is the power of imagination!


The thing is when you focus solely on academic prowess, when that is the be all and end all then we actually miss out on the amazing people that these children were created to be. Maybe they won't get into the best high schools or universities, maybe they will only learn English for this season. But that's ok because each of them in their own right has their very own gifting. They each have their own superpower.


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