so im starting to get a bit of the routine of teaching. but i still wake up every morning fearing what am i going to do today with these kids? will it keep their attention? will it be enough? but then today at the end of the day after i had finished some lesson plans where i had made some pretty sweet games and i was feeling good about tomorrow....well yanny tells me that mr bae wants me to prepare less and have one on one talking. great idea! i mean, that is why i am here, right? my biggest challenge here is that we are talking about classes of 15 - 20 kids ages 5 -7. its not swahili class where i can go around the circle and ask everyone the same question. that would be nice.
most of my games have involved the flash cards and i did teams because it is easier for me. i find the classrooms to be small and tight so i can't move very freely between the kids and i can't even reach all of them and because of that i don't know all of them. i do know most of their names which is a funny thing because most of them don't know their english names. its not like they have them from birth, they just pick them to come to this school. hahha, so i can call charles all day long and often he has no idea i am talking to him. makes it all the more interesting! if i had the class in a large open area where i could move around or have them sit in a circle i would be much happier, but i feel like they are asking alot of me. hahaha, i guess not. really they just want me to change my focus - prepare less, talk more. so its not important that i have fun creative games as was originally stressed to me by yanny but rather individual talk time.
so my challenge essentially is to find a creative way to ask each of the 20 students "good morning! what is your name?" hahaha...yeah.....so its gonna be a challenge. i think tossing a ball or something would be good but how many days can i do that? maybe every! haha so any ideas would be pretty sweet!
my afternoon classes are great! small sometimes, the kids listen most of the time, and i have a curriculm set out for me. nice.
so i think that is all in the teaching world for me. just working on teaching them how to say "f" not "effel" its just "f." its a great time. sometimes the kids start laughing and so do i. they are so hilarious! but i do have to keep in mind that i can't teach the long a sound...sometimes i like to overstep my bounds and well, we all get lost when that happens. hahaha
until next time!
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Well effel that!
This is the first post that I have read but it sounds like you are doing awesome. How is your Korean comming? I only know 2 phrases, how to say hello on IM, and do you want to die? I am pretty sure I could make it. Warm up to people and them ask them if they want to die? It is a great evangelistic tool. What, you don't want to die then let me tell you about eternal life.
Jim
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