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Every morning I have to fix the food for the kids before they arrive. I also have to clean the floor, write a report, and listen to whatever the boss is complaining about that day. |
| After lunch
and before class the students have nap time. They do the best they
can in the oversize chairs the school has given us. I've had some
who will tip themselves over.
This boy was one of my favorites. I let him sit up front and he would often just sit and talk to me. He was very intelligent and learned quickly. He still comes up and talks to me now when he sees me at school. |
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My students had at work (because I told them to be for the picture). They are unusually still here. |
| While the students are working, I walk around checking their work. If they make a mistake I try to point it out to them and explain their mistake. |  |
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For their
weekly Writing class, I sit down with them and go through everything they
wrote and point out all the mistakes. This takes a long time and
usually takes almost two class times.
This boy and his brother were always trouble-makers. This one I about got straightened out, but his brother was impossible. |
 Here students use their
bodies to spell words. I think this is supposed to be an
'L'
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I often have them play learning games to make things more interesting. Here they each have a number and will roll a die. Who's ever number comes up will read one sentence. |
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The best way I've found to control them is to make them write sentences when they do anything to annoy me. They have a bad habit of interrupting me and talking out of turn. I have a list of 30 sentences on the whiteboard and, after giving them a warning, if they continue to misbehave they have to write 10 "I will not...." sentences. I got the idea from the beginning of 'The Simpsons.' |
| One of their
favorite classes is our Project class, or as they called it "making
something class." Each week they make something. Sometimes
it's something simple, other days complex. When I get the proper
materials from the office it goes well, the other 90% of the time I have
to be creative.
The girl in blue was my naughtiest. She craved attention and often interrupted class. I had to move her to the back of the class and this helped the problem. |
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This is an old picture from when we still had tables. These were much to small and I finally begged them some proper desks. In this project they are making a winter scene with construction paper houses and white paint and cotton for snow. |
| This is a tambourine they made. This little girl is the youngest because she was moved up from P1 (1st grade). She had trouble at first, but went on to the top of the class. Her spoken English was behind the others (due mostly to shyness) but she learned the grammar rules quickly. |  |
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