With Monday being a holiday, Tuesday was orientation, and well most of you know how my Wednesday went, the last two days just flew by. Thursday is science day and the school has purchased weekly science kits for each of the classes. The perk to the kits is the science project is all ready for me; the challenge is simplifying the vocabulary to where I can actually teach the project to children who understand very little English. For example, our project was Configuration of Electricity, in essence the kids made a little flashlight with battery, wire and a light bulb. The project itself is moderately easy, explaining electricity on the other hand, very hard. In the end we just executed the project,they played with there flashlights turning them on and off and anything else they may have absorbed is beyond me. Although it was hard to actually teach the science behind it all, all the kids seemed to enjoy the project, so told to me by the other teachers.
The following day Angela my Korean helper came in during morning snack and told me she called all my student’s parents. Supposedly Andy, one of my students, went home and told his mom all about the science project plus told his mom about the letter B and wanted to go around the house looking for B items so he could work on his B sound. (Alison had gone over B’s with my students). Hearing this from Angela made me very happy because Andy is so shy and you just don’t know if he gets it but apparently he does. Also I have a girl named Lara who cries all the time and Angela said, that her mom told her it’s because Lara just really wants to speak English. My heart went out to Lara once Angela told me this however; if Lara just stopped crying she would realize she can speak English. For Friday’s math class, we went over our shapes and Lara new all her shapes and would say them out loud, I was shocked. Most of my students are bright its just going to take time to get them to actually verbally use their English.
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