Besties Scarlet and Christine
It's another wonderful sunny Saturday. Mild and perfect for being out and about. Yey!
I have to share some class highlights from this week:
-earlier this week Julian was not behaving very well, and I reminded him that "Julian, you only have one point left"...to this he replied, "No, one point right!" WHERE DOES HE GET THIS STUFF? So clever!
-I like reviewing shapes with my kindies, and I have taught them pentagon, hexagon, and octogon. They sometimes get those mixed up, and fair enough. Wednesday we were studying sea animals so I drew an octopus and an octogon and we counted tentacles and sides, and I could see some of them lighting up and making the connection. Then, when I showed an image of a starfish and asked how many points there were, they answered, "Five!" Sunny shouts out, "Like a pentagon!" I love my kids. They are actually listening to me!
-I don't usually wear my glasses at school but I wore them to my last class of the day on Thursday, when I teach my elementary 10-year old girls. Nina saw my glasses and asked, "are you tired?" Ha. Smart girl.
-The same group of elementary girls said to me another day, "Teacher, you are exhausting!" It was too funny because I was trying to get a lot accomplished in that particular class. Exhausted was a new vocabulary word for them a couple weeks ago, but they added the -ing mistakenly. It was well played though, and they didn't even know it. (Of course I then explained the difference to them.)
-Occasionally I sit down at the Mercury table with the kids (in the teeny tiny chairs) to read them their story. This week, for every story book class, Alvin has made it his job to pull out a chair for me. I was standing and showing the pictures and he goes and gets a chair and pulls my shirt and says "Teacher" and points to the chair. I guess he likes when I sit! Cutest thing ever.
-Liang, little terror number two, next to Julian, has been much better lately. He actually hugs me all the time now and never used to. Angela, another really young one (3 and a half years old) is so quiet and sweet and has started hugging me and never used to either. Yey! I swear it never gets old, but every time I enter the room or see Mercury kids in the hall they SHOUT at the top of their lungs, "LEAH TEACHER!" Makes me feel like a rock star.
In January, the school puts on Festival. It's basically a recital, and all the kindergarten classes perform story book dances, plays, and speeches. My class is performing "The Ant and the Grasshopper" as their play, and I chose the song "At the Hop" for their closing number. It's SO fun playing dance teacher and choreographing routines. I can't wait to see it all come together. For the instrumental part of the song, I just have my kids playing air piano, guitar, and saxophone, and every time I do it they are all in stitches laughing (I rock out pretty hard, after all). I've been helping Karen with her dance routines too, and came up with a sweet number to "Rock Around the Clock". There is also a school-wide dance routine to "Hey Mickey" - costumes and everything! I guess this is kind of a big deal. The six-year-olds are doing a drumming and tambourine routine to "Mamma Mia", so that's been fun to help out with as well.
I have to share some class highlights from this week:
-earlier this week Julian was not behaving very well, and I reminded him that "Julian, you only have one point left"...to this he replied, "No, one point right!" WHERE DOES HE GET THIS STUFF? So clever!
-I like reviewing shapes with my kindies, and I have taught them pentagon, hexagon, and octogon. They sometimes get those mixed up, and fair enough. Wednesday we were studying sea animals so I drew an octopus and an octogon and we counted tentacles and sides, and I could see some of them lighting up and making the connection. Then, when I showed an image of a starfish and asked how many points there were, they answered, "Five!" Sunny shouts out, "Like a pentagon!" I love my kids. They are actually listening to me!
-I don't usually wear my glasses at school but I wore them to my last class of the day on Thursday, when I teach my elementary 10-year old girls. Nina saw my glasses and asked, "are you tired?" Ha. Smart girl.
-The same group of elementary girls said to me another day, "Teacher, you are exhausting!" It was too funny because I was trying to get a lot accomplished in that particular class. Exhausted was a new vocabulary word for them a couple weeks ago, but they added the -ing mistakenly. It was well played though, and they didn't even know it. (Of course I then explained the difference to them.)
-Occasionally I sit down at the Mercury table with the kids (in the teeny tiny chairs) to read them their story. This week, for every story book class, Alvin has made it his job to pull out a chair for me. I was standing and showing the pictures and he goes and gets a chair and pulls my shirt and says "Teacher" and points to the chair. I guess he likes when I sit! Cutest thing ever.
-Liang, little terror number two, next to Julian, has been much better lately. He actually hugs me all the time now and never used to. Angela, another really young one (3 and a half years old) is so quiet and sweet and has started hugging me and never used to either. Yey! I swear it never gets old, but every time I enter the room or see Mercury kids in the hall they SHOUT at the top of their lungs, "LEAH TEACHER!" Makes me feel like a rock star.
In January, the school puts on Festival. It's basically a recital, and all the kindergarten classes perform story book dances, plays, and speeches. My class is performing "The Ant and the Grasshopper" as their play, and I chose the song "At the Hop" for their closing number. It's SO fun playing dance teacher and choreographing routines. I can't wait to see it all come together. For the instrumental part of the song, I just have my kids playing air piano, guitar, and saxophone, and every time I do it they are all in stitches laughing (I rock out pretty hard, after all). I've been helping Karen with her dance routines too, and came up with a sweet number to "Rock Around the Clock". There is also a school-wide dance routine to "Hey Mickey" - costumes and everything! I guess this is kind of a big deal. The six-year-olds are doing a drumming and tambourine routine to "Mamma Mia", so that's been fun to help out with as well.
Mercury rehearsing for festival
All the kindies (5-, 6-, and 7-year olds) rehearsing
Thursday I went out for dinner with Tony and two of my Korean coworkers, Selina and Elly. Then I met up with Christian for a drink. Last night I was at Happidus again, where everybody knows your name! Yet again, met some more cool folks, good tunes, fun times.
Elly teacher!
Happy weekend! I'm off to Seoul tomorrow for breakie (Hi, Hunter) and to check out some markets! xo
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