9/13

After waking up with a cockroach in my bed last night, I was up all night with images of a cockroach crawling all over in my bed, so needless to say I did not get much sleep at all last night.  But the students were able to wake me up and brighten my day as soon as I got to school.  As I walked in I heard some of the students singing the days of the week song I had been teaching them, and then as I started pulling some of my teaching stuff out of my backpack the kids were picking them up and reading the vocabulary words I had been teaching them.  It showed that my students were not only interested in what I was teaching them, but that they were actually learning it too!  And then to lighten up my mood a bit, one of the girls told me I had a bad singing voice, oh kids! 

The school day ended up being a bit mixed up, as Katie’s teacher was not at school due to her baby being sick.  This meant that my classroom teacher was teaching in both classrooms when Katie and I weren’t teaching our lessons.  At the beginning of one of the periods where I was not teaching and when my teacher was in the other classroom setting up their lesson, one of my students asked me, “Teacher, can we learn?”  It melted my heart.  It just goes to show how much these students value and appreciate their education.  And it is that value and appreciation that pushes me to keep challenging myself in my teaching so that I can provide them with the best learning opportunities. 

During break and lunch today I worked on putting up a Word Wall in my classroom.  The way a Word Wall works, is that you put the letters of the alphabet on the wall and then under each letter you put vocabulary words that the students are learning.  This is perfect to use here, as the kids are learning a new set of vocabulary words each week in their English lessons.  The idea is then that the students can use the Word Wall so that they can keep practicing the words in their reading, writing, and speaking. 

And because it is Thursday, we had Chapel again today.  It is one of my favorite parts of the week, seeing all the kids together singing, dancing, and drumming.  Not to mention I usually get to hang out with a baby or two during it.

And one more thing to keep us on our toes today was a rat in the classroom.  Katie was just about to start teaching again when a rat scurried past her feet.  But not to worry, within a matter of seconds the boys in her classroom had the rat by its tail and were taking it back into the field.  They ran right past me with it, and I sure am glad they weren’t my toes that it ran over!