Sorry, folks.
Life is moving fast and I forgot to check in on the blog.
Today was the second day of school included all students from K-12th grade. The school can get very loud being that there are not many surfaces that cushion the noise. Yesterday felt like a very long day even though I had only taught for a grand total of 20-25 minutes. Today I taught for about 4 hours and walking away from school, I feel energized.
In Kindergarten class I have 6 students. These students are 4-5 years old, where as the 6 year old students are in a different kindergarten class - 7 students total. Just about all of them are wonderful. I only phrase it this was because two of the kindergartens were new to yesterday and only today I was able to reach to them in an educational way... Red! Yellow! Green! Circle! Triangle! Hello! I've only been teaching 20-30 minutes at a time with these guys. If it were to be any long their attention span would drive ME crazy. I'm excited for when things get rolling.
The fifth graders have been great. I have been playing games with them, such as Simon Says, Two Truths and a Lie, and Dirt-Bag/Hacky-Sack, yes, I pulled out my dirt-bag and we have been playing with it. These students vary at reading, writing and speaking in English. This diversity will be my greatest challenge, but I know I will be able to differentiate at meet the needs of the students. Today I mainly corrected behavior issues and set expectations with these children. Even when I mistakenly forgot the let the class go for snack break, I managed the class thru school, up four flights of stairs, into the lunch room and into seats, I set expectations and built respect for each other, the school, its staff, and myself. Its very important you are grateful two everyone but especially two people - the lunch workers and the custodians.- my mom taught me that.
My schedule varies very much per day. For instance, Wednesday, I will teach straight through the entire day ending with a prep period, whereas Friday, I start with a prep hour, teach 3 periods and have last 4 periods off for prep. I like my Fridays :)
I do have my own classroom. I received it last week on Thursday, so I spent the all that Thursday preparing posters and pictures, then Friday I hung them up. The classroom still looks a little bear - that's just how Turkish schools look - but its fun. I colored Disney pictures of many great characters including Snowhite, Winnie the Poo, Goofy, Donald Duck, Ariel, and other, in which I placed on the students lockers. I do not have a homeroom class, so these lockers can be used for my supplies or better yet used for students materials that I wish to keep in the classroom. I'm grateful to have this room.
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