just a day

so today was friday..is friday...friday the 13th. kkk..

anyways, so its my "Hell" day because every other friday in the afternoon i have 3 back to back classes of me with over 20 kids - and its just me and the kids. its tough stuff. but my attack is to play big games that instead of stiffling the kids personalities, rather lets them just be and try their hand at english at the same time.

so the week of those fridays i usually freak out because i need a really good game, or the kids will eat me alive. so this week i was thinking battleship but i couldn't quite get the logistics right. soooo instead, i found this sweet game online called "disaster" - i appropriately named it "Tornado." there are like 20 to 30 vocabulary words attached to the board and 2 teams. i call one student from a team and they can pick a word and they have to read it to me. then on the back of the vocabulary card is either point value or a TORNADO!!!!! if its a tornado i scream tornado (and i mean i scream tornado) and then i start spinning around like a crazy person. then i taught all the students what to do in a tornado drill - and so they all hide under their desks. if they don't get under and i get them, they lose their next turn. oh and the team that picks the card with the tornado loses all of their points. the kids LOOOOOVED it! they were screaming and yelling. when the other team had to pick a card, the other team would start chanting "tor-na-do! tor-na-do!" and their little faces of anticipation! and some of them were even praying! i have to admit, it was pretty intense because i didn't really know where the tornados were.

the reason i am sharing this story is because this week has been a little rough at the start and reveiw days are not my favorite. and even this morning was really slow and not so good...but this week ended on a GREAT note! though i dont konw if the other teachers appreciated how loud i was. i mean im like my own cheerleading squad. and they kids start screaming - it was awesome.

and today we were doing this computer program in the morning...and its so cheesey i am shocked the kids like it. so there is one little dance part and so we watched it and then the kids, in their usually fashion, "ONE MORE TIME!" and i looked at them, "really? one more time?"
Then Walter, one of my favorites, "Yes REALLY, Amber Teacher!" hahahahhahha these kids are too smart.

the other day i took some time and made a cool little wheel thing to use in class. well i was a little bit proud of it. so in tiger class, i pulled out my little contraption to review with the kids and harry (potter) yells out "wowwww" hahahahha...do you understand why i love this job? im like famous or something....the kids are great! frustrating at times, but i love 'em! and i think they deal with me pretty well!

a few weeks ago i was starting the tiger class with songs as usual and Vivi teacher left - so it was me and the 20 kids. so we were singing and then the song ended then they started chantin "one more time" but not just that. there is a very famous korean song "Baby One More Time" so the kids start chanting "baby one more time!" "baby one more time!" standing on their chairs and doing the dance move. it was kind of scary. i knew i couldn't fight them...so after i stopped laughin i played the song "baby one more time" kkkkk