This is my fourth week teaching and OH BOY has it been a challenge.
I teach kindergarten for two hours starting at 8am and the kids are completely adorable...individually. Together they can make your head hurt for hours at a time. But that's only because they really weren't introduced to discipline in the classroom before. I have spent three weeks making them raise their hands if they have questions, stay seated, and only talk if I give them permission. If they can't follow the rules, then they have to write lines during recess. And woah buddy do they hate that.
Today German cried and screamed while writing his lines.
But nevertheless, they're seriously learning how to act in a classroom and I could not be more proud!!
The next class I have is from 11-12pm, and I teach them English. They're learning past, present, and future verbs already! After about two weeks, they learned how to be quiet, pay attention, and work. In that class I have three boys from the children's home who do their homework with me after school.
I then have a lunch break and teach English to second grade from 12:30-1:30. That might be the toughest challenge of all. The class is INCREDIBLY sweet and well-mannered, but many of them do not know how to write in Spanish. So it's hard to teach them English words when they don't know how to copy words in Spanish. But they are learning and are the absolute SWEETEST kids.
My last class of the day is from 2-3pm and they are the 'Advanced English' students. These kids are the ones who ask ME questions in English and are so incredibly curious about the English language. It's inspiring. They are also older and have become my good friends. Claudia and Glendi especially. :)
Claudia and Demaris are the two smiling, beautiful girls in this picture:
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