Did you know there were kimchi dumplings? Yes, they exist and are delicious.
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Time to participate kiddies
These colored ice cream sticks have increased class participation
by 1000%.
I pick one person per class to go around
and have other students pick out the sticks. Whatever numbers are picked, that
student has to stand up and either read or recite whatever textbook info we are
learning. It helps a lot. I can get more than half of the students to speak
English during every class. It also keeps them on their toes. Whoever gets chosen
to walk around the room and have the other students pick sticks, feels very
powerful, at least during the class time.
Footnote: always count your sticks after
every class. LOL. My slick students STOLE their numbers near the end of the
semester and I did not know it until after the semester was over.
What can I say?
My rugrats are SMART!
Blackface in elementary textbooks?
These are images that are on the CD for the
textbook we used this semester.
Also, the map does not show any people in
Africa, only animals.
Is there any wonder the adults here find blackface so funny when the elementary books show this?
Hmmmmnnnn...
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Hair play
My 5th grade students at my Thursday travel school love to touch
(and braid) my Senegal twists.
I love that they have warmed up to me.
Saturday, October 18, 2014
Hike anyone? Hey, wait up!
My second (Thursday) school had a hiking trip scheduled and I
asked to go with them for the first time. I showed up almost late with jeans
on. They looked at me as if I was a space alien, wearing jeans to a hike, lol.
Even the smallest student was geared up in the most expensive mountain climbing
outfit including walking sticks. Hiking clothes can cost around one thousand US
dollars. It is serious business to hike here.
Before the hike, the six grade class
expressed concern for our safety. Wasn't that sweet?
Well, after about an hour, the other
english teacher and I were both sweating buckets. We were not even able to keep
up with the 1st graders! Those little kids left us in their dust! All we saw
was the back of their little itty bitty heads. Luckily for us, after the
second hour, one of the sixth grade boys was unable to complete the climb. He
was overheated and vomited three times and reluctantly had to turn back. Being
the good teachers we were, we heroically offered to bring him back down the mountain
so the others could proceed without us.
It was a huge sacrifice but we were BOTH
VERY happy to make it, lol.
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