So teaching eh?

I thought I would put the "eh" in there because my room mate is part Canadian.

I just realized that I haven't talked much about my job, you know, my excuse for coming half way around the world? What was it? Oh yeah teaching. I am enjoying it. For the last week I have had a class of six year olds and seven year olds. The six year olds are really easy because the main thing is exposer to English. They do a lot of coloring, and some watching movies like Madagascar and Shrek in English. I speak to them in English, and try to get them to talk to me in English.

The seven year olds, are a bit more advanced. They learn phonics. That is, how to pronounce things, and correlate sounds with letters on the page. At first I had a hard time engaging them. They much rather play then learn the short u sound or the letter B. Surprise Surprise. So I took out an ancient and dog eared page of how to get kids to want to learn, and made it... you guessed it: a game. Boys vrs Girls naturally. Points going to whoever says out loud the proper answer first, and another to whichever side spells it. I have done it two days so far, and the first day the girls crushed the boys. The second day the boys caught on and only lost by a point. I think this is only a temporary thing though. Too much inter-competition in a class room can get out of hand.
I at least to mix up the teams. I want to write some teaching songs and use them too. Maybe sometime get and use a puppet and more! Look at me being a optimistic teacher! Huzzah!

After this week I get my own full schedule with a full range of students. The older kids are fun too though I have yet to have them on my own. They like my magic tricks, and after class we have been playing a lot of ping pong... so I have their interest which is important. We'll see how it goes with my own classes. I don't think there will be a problem.