Tuesday! Our early classes again, yay!
We got up and headed to the school, grabbing honeyed bread
from the bakery for breakfast on the way. Delicious, we love it! I can’t
believe it took us forever to try them, seriously… Anyways, we got there, and
luckily had already mostly planned our morning lessons. All the same, the extra
time gave us a short while to review everything before starting.
My crazy class, Class 2, was pretty crazy as usual. In a way
it wasn’t too terrible, though. I still had one of the boys pointing his nose
and asking for the hospital. By then it was obvious he was faking it, since if
it really was an issue then it would have been seen to before. Oh well… Otherwise, class went okay. I went
through some Word slides- I love teaching them adjectives!- and then into the
book for a few pages. They’re actually getting a little quieter with them,
which is awesome!
So that finished up all right, and then Katie and I went to
lunch. She headed home shortly after and I returned to the chilly office to
turn on the heater. Which blows right on me, which totally rocks. The internet
has been crappy all week so I began writing pieces of a new story idea. There
was no direction to speak of yet, but I was liking how it began and figured I’d
see it through to another chapter.
I fixed up a few slides, and finally went to teach again.
Grade 4 was hectic, and I ended up allowing up to 4 kids to
the ‘Hospital’- school nurse, by the way- because they were going on and on and
I couldn’t get class started because they were all over me. I needed them to
stop, so I sent them out and concentrated on getting class started. We covered
some words for sounds- gasp, laugh, cry- which was a ton of fun! Then I brought
in rhyming, and that did not made sense to them at all. A bit tricky to explain
and I didn’t do a good enough job because most of the lesson they were just
confused. But they tried hard and they got a few minutes on a video for their
attempts.
Grade 5 was a little crazy, but almost less so. While
there’s a constant buzzing, they’re getting better and working with me. However
they’re also trickier because my rule for the two older classes is that they
can’t have books or papers on their desks! So I started giving them points if I
saw them there, which pissed off the students who were actually behaving, and I
think that’s convinced the ‘naughty’ students to pay attention to me. They know
enough when I tell them to put the papers away into the desks, trust me. Haha…
but it could have been worse.
Class 3 came finally- I had three girls escort me to the
classroom. Super cute! I love them. So many adorable little menaces, I can’t
get over it. This is the class where they all want to write down the grade
system- super basic. A+ = DVD, B = NO DVD, boxed up and waiting for marks when
I evaluate how good they are being.
They were loud but enthusiastic when I used my Words
PowerPoint. They love shouting, after all. What kid doesn’t? Anyways, they went
through that so much faster than all of my other kids, it made me worried about
time. Luckily, though, they’re Grade 3 so they have books to use! We pulled
them out, I glanced through to see where they were at, and we started there! It
lasted well for the class. I had a line of kids at the front to show me how it
was going. They’re clever, but their handwriting is terrible, which is
something I was trying to help them fix. They were so sweet about it, it was so
nice! I hurried through the time and had just a few minutes for part of a DVD
since they were good enough, and then
classes were done!
Katie and I ate with Greg, cleaned up our desks, and headed
back home. We talked about our classes and how things had gone, and watched Men
In Black 2 [since we watched the first one the night before], which was
awesome, yay!
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