Well the first few days of school have gone just swimmingly. Thursday I didn't end up having class so Friday was the first real day of classes. I made a little power point about myself which ended up being very revealing for how much English my students already understand. I started the day with my P3s and I was so impressed with how much they already knew! They were also really well behaved - I think that class is going to be really fun for me. The P1s were about where I expected them to be - they knew very little English. That being said, I think they will be my fastest learners. That class is very receptive, eager to learn, eager to please, and relatively well behaved. My P2s knew less than I expected and were the worst behaved class. I'll need to remember to be patient with them - I think it will be difficult because I'll have to play a bit of catch-up with them to get them to where they need to be to understand the book. But I'm thrilled that its only one class I have to do that with!
One of the best things so far in classes and about this new school is my TA, Bee. She has been such a huge help! The school didn't have a roster in English so Bee and Ray translated our rosters and then made a list of the students' nicknames. Bee is currently putting labels with the students' nicknames and numbers on their books which will be a huge help to me. She also has been there helping me with every class - especially in terms of behavior management and in making sure the students understand the directions I'm giving them. She and Ray are both very hard working and so friendly - I know they are going to make my experience at this school a really positive one.
School today has gone really well. My P3s especially were amazing. I did pretty much the same thing in all my classes today. Because we didn't have a list of their nicknames I had to postpone my name tag making activity until today. I wanted a list of their nicknames before I had them make name tags because I thought some of the P1s and P2s might need help (and they did) spelling and writing their names. Before we did that I went through what I'm hoping will become a class routine. Today it took a lot longer than usual because I was asking them things like "What is today's date?" and "What is today's weather?" and we needed to go through the vocabulary for each of those questions. Months are apparently something that the books don't cover until P2 Unit 4 but that kind of timeline doesn't work for me so everyone is going to learn the months of the year now. So while my P1s and P2s needed to learn all this new vocabulary, my P3s raced through the new class routine because they grasped it right away. So while my P1s were left with about 15 minutes to make their name tags, my P3s had 35 minutes. With my P1s or P2s I might have worried about the class getting a little rowdy with that much time for an activity like that but my P3s got really into decorating their name tags and making them really beautiful. Plus they were quiet the entire time. I mean, really, really quiet. It was like, kids, you actually are allowed to talk to each other while coloring - you're 8, its OK. But actually it was really wonderful - they were really wonderful.
So yeah, things are going really well here. :)
One of the best things so far in classes and about this new school is my TA, Bee. She has been such a huge help! The school didn't have a roster in English so Bee and Ray translated our rosters and then made a list of the students' nicknames. Bee is currently putting labels with the students' nicknames and numbers on their books which will be a huge help to me. She also has been there helping me with every class - especially in terms of behavior management and in making sure the students understand the directions I'm giving them. She and Ray are both very hard working and so friendly - I know they are going to make my experience at this school a really positive one.
School today has gone really well. My P3s especially were amazing. I did pretty much the same thing in all my classes today. Because we didn't have a list of their nicknames I had to postpone my name tag making activity until today. I wanted a list of their nicknames before I had them make name tags because I thought some of the P1s and P2s might need help (and they did) spelling and writing their names. Before we did that I went through what I'm hoping will become a class routine. Today it took a lot longer than usual because I was asking them things like "What is today's date?" and "What is today's weather?" and we needed to go through the vocabulary for each of those questions. Months are apparently something that the books don't cover until P2 Unit 4 but that kind of timeline doesn't work for me so everyone is going to learn the months of the year now. So while my P1s and P2s needed to learn all this new vocabulary, my P3s raced through the new class routine because they grasped it right away. So while my P1s were left with about 15 minutes to make their name tags, my P3s had 35 minutes. With my P1s or P2s I might have worried about the class getting a little rowdy with that much time for an activity like that but my P3s got really into decorating their name tags and making them really beautiful. Plus they were quiet the entire time. I mean, really, really quiet. It was like, kids, you actually are allowed to talk to each other while coloring - you're 8, its OK. But actually it was really wonderful - they were really wonderful.
So yeah, things are going really well here. :)
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