Let me teach you something

Today I did the education rotation. I just want to remind everyone that I can't take pictures while I'm with the kids, because it will distract them so that's why I don't have very many. I was in doubt of whether I was gonna have enough patience today or not. I was in doubt because last time the kids were wearing my patience quite a bit. I will tell you that for me the day was a good day but not better than my last education I did not get better kids. However we did get to go to the school at 9:15 rather than at 8:30. We went at 9:15 because we did not go to the singing group with the UKG group.

To start my education day I was doing the letter practice with the UKG kids. I did get pretty lucky with her because she was very sweet and did know a lot of the alphabet. However she was very quiet and did not know very much English at all.  Anyways we got the letter "G" and it was a fun and unique letter. We traced the letter with her finger, found it in other words, and traced the letter with her expo marker. Afterwards the kids played alphabet bingo. They had to fill a whole sheet of 9 to get bingo. Everyone got the joy of getting bingo!! Super fun. 

Next the kids had a quick little recess to go and get their wiggles out and of course PLAY! 

We ran down to the library and grabbed a couple of books to read with the Sedond Standard. They ran up and sat down next to us, we started to read. I realized how much of the book I was having to read because she didn't want to read it. That was kind of annoying because then she won't be getting better at her reading skills. I was fine with just reading to her but I was worried the teacher would be mad. I kind of just had her read a line every here and there. She was really cute so it was worth it. After we were done reading they were called to go and spell out words for us. They did so well.

We then headed over to the computer lab to help with UKG. The girl that I got was doing really well in the beginning. Then I think she got sick of it and wanted to just play games so she just stopped using the mouse and took off her head phones. I was like you need to put those back on. She wouldn't, so I put them on her. She would take them off again this happened about 10 times. Then the house mother saw and put them on her and she kept them on her for a little bit. She kept them on for like 5 minutes then fell in a deep sleep. I shook her to wake her up and she would not. I took the head phones off her and she looked up then went back to bed. So I got the house mother and she told her to go stand up. Then she came back and there was no more problems! It was a real struggle I had never really struggled with a kid but I do know that kids easily get on my nerves. However I am still nice to all of them! 

Then the sixth standard came in and I had no idea how much I had forgotten! They came in and sat down logged on and got started. We were told to help the ones who had a lower score that was shown on the computer so they can get a gold medal. The math was mainly simplifying fractions from decimal form, going least to greatest, writng out the names of the decimal form, etc... As I was helping the kids it got easier and easier. The kids were much easier to work with than the UKG. 

We then headed back to the elephant house for some lunch real quick, I had beef jerky and it was really yummy. 

At 12:45 we were back at the school to talk about self confidence to the ninth standard. I really enjoyed this! The gal that sat with me saw me as she walked down the hall then ran up to me her name was seetuah ( I have no idea how to spell it!) she was the most amazing gal!! I was sitting there with her and she smiled the entire time. We had to do a skit, and she was super scared because we were going to dance and that is something that she does not like to do so she would burry her face into her hands while laughing. As we were planning our skit we decided that seetuah would be the teacher telling us a girl had to dance on front of the class. However the girl is way to shy to dance so I told her I will dance with her and that she can do it so we got up and danced. It's pretty silly and dorky but that was our skit. After the skits we got to just talk and have a good time.

Finally we had P.E with the sixth standard. This was super hot!! We had no idea what to play so we played a variety of things. We played little Sally Walker, Red Light Green Light, Tag, a few more but I can't remember them. I was soo hot. We basically all just struggled to stay under the shade of the tree! 

At play time today after about 15 minutes Sudah came running up to me and gave me the biggest hug! She was super sweet and so excited to see me! It mad my day completely!