Wednesday morning we had planned to get up for breakfast as
well… but I was exhausted and did not want to climb out of bed, so… we stayed
in bed for the morning instead! Which was very relaxing! But Katie pointed out
we have to start preparing for school, so she’s going to make sure we stay on track
for things like that from now on- no changing our minds because it’s a bit of
extra work!
She had a morning class so she headed off before I did. I
ended up getting CBS.com to work so I watched a part of Criminal Minds whilst
getting ready before finally heading off to the school, a little later than
planned. Still, Katie was a doll and waited for me. I dropped my stuff and we
headed to the ‘canteen.’
Lunch was fine, and we headed back to the office. I read the
second book, Insurgent, and finished that as well. So I reviewed a few lessons
and Katie and I planned a little more for our lesson with the International
class.
Grade 3 Class 1 was a little rowdy when I got there, but it
wasn’t too bad. They were just extra enthusiastic which was a little crazy, you
know? Even little Leon and smart Kevin were getting rambunctious! They were all
switching seats constantly up front, it was a little frustrating.
I had brought out the I Spy game again, which they enjoyed-
but everyone was acting up so much that I finally shut it down and had class
open their English books. Everyone groaned and I shrugged. Too many people
talking and playing, it’s not okay. Plus I had one girl, while I was talking to
the class and telling them to behave, go to the back bookcase and grab two
books to read- during class! That was pretty insulting…
Still, they did okay with the page we worked on, and I
started giving out stickers once the whole page was done! They were cool with
that. It wasn’t as crazy as usual, thank goodness- I hadn’t walked around the
classroom at all so I think a lot of them were probably doing their own thing…
but still, otherwise it went pretty well and I had some super happy kids who
were paying attention in class! They ended up behaving enough for a short funny
video before our time was up!
Back in the office, I worked on a PowerPoint while Katie
taught for a while. Then there was a quick dinner and more preparation. It
didn’t seem like I had much on superheroes, so I started tracking back some of
their stories I didn’t know.
Soon it was time for class. We’re thinking they’re coming in
even later than usual to keep class from starting too early, though, which is
frustrating and we don’t often start until almost 7, it’s ridiculous… All the
same, I dove into the presentation, pulled up a few trailors for the popular
movies like Thor and stuff like that. They liked that- but holy cow were they
talking the whole time.
Still, my presentation took up a good chunk of time, I
reviewed some vocabulary and then Katie tried to get them to play Charades.
Which was very tricky with the superheroes. It’s going to be pretty obvious,
right? And the kids aren’t willing to do too much. Still, Katie tried and did a
really good job working with them on ideas for their team. I just stood in the
back with the marker like those show girls in Jeopardy!
The winning team wanted a song, so we offered a few that I
still had kept on there, but they weren’t too sure. So for the last minute we
listened to Journey’s ‘Don’t Stop Believing’ before we shut everything down. I
think it went well enough, though, because the kids seemed pretty cheerful.
We tried to go talk to Nicole up a floor, but she was
surrounded by kids [one of them had to define ‘toasts’], so we figured we’d
talk to her later. We grabbed our things and headed home! Surprisingly, we had
just barely changed when she knocked on our door!
For a little while we talked then played on our gadgets- the
two ladies on their phones and I on my computer- until Nicole finally had to
go. It was definitely a little awkward, but everything still went okay overall!
By then it was getting a little late so we didn’t end up watching a movie, but
did our own thing and read for a bit instead!
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