So yesterday Kate and I finally began teaching. We each had three classes of kids in an after school program. As I think I mentioned, this school is brand new, so for the after school program there is a total of about 18 kids. These kids range from about a 1st grade English level to 4th grade. Kate has the lowest level with one student. Then I have the next two levels (Basic 1 and 2). Kate teaches Basic 4 and I teach Spark 2, which is more of a writing intensive class.
My Basic 1 class is supposed to have 3 students, but one wasn't there. So I had two students. When they learn English, they are given or get to pick an English name. Neither of these students had an English name yet so I got to name them both. I named the boy Jacob and the boy Amy. They were both pretty shy but they did understand at least a lot of the vocabulary I was throwing at them and they were able to repeat it all with pretty good pronunciation.
In my Basic 2 class there were three students, all at about a 3rd of 4th grade level. All three of them had English names already- Jacob, Patrick, and Starlyn. The Jacob in this class was very different from the first Jacob I had. He was a trouble maker.. broke the pencil he had so he couldn't do his work, spoke in Korean when he knew he was supposed to speak only English, etc. The thing is, he is really smart and I think he thinks this stuff is too easy for him. Every time I asked a question, he answered in a full, detailed sentence, so we'll see how that goes. He reminds me of one of the Kindergartners I taught this year and he ended up being my favorite.. not that I have those.. Haha
Today (Tuesday), is a "planning" day so Kate and I do not teach again until tomorrow. Hopefully Jacob and I do better tomorrow.
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