This was my first week with my new class, the Miffy Class (I think I mentioned befor1e about how all the classes have some sort of cartoon or Disney theme? I guess Miffy is some sort of Korean Bunny character). I was a little sad to leave Tigger Class, but then again, they were a little exasperating. My new class is absolutely ADORABLE! There are only four of them right now (Lily, Becky, Julie, and Alyssa), all are 5 years old (which remember means they are actually 4 years old). Their understanding of English is pretty limited which can be frustrating at times. They have five books that we use throughout the day, and they can repeat words and sentences when I say them, but they have a hard time understanding directions. They also can't read, so that's a little hard. When we're reading a book they basically just repeat what I'm saying.

When the kids start a new class they are usually already given an English name for the class, but one girl didn't have a name yet, so I got to choose her name for her. I went through a few names to see if she was partial to any of them, but no. So eventually I just named her after my BFF Becky! She is super super shy, so it took a while to get her to say her name. I was so proud when she did though. We learned this week how to say "Hello, what's your name" and "My name is ______" and all the girls are pretty good at that. They all know how to spell their names as well. Becky isn't as good, but I think that's because she isn't as familiar with the alphabet, so she needs help writing the letters.

This week we learned about things like school supplies, colors, shapes, counting. They catch on pretty quick. Julie and Alyssa have pretty short attention spans though, so they don't like to do school work for too long. I think I mentioned before that every class has to perform a song at the end of the month. Our song was Louby Loo, we only had a week to practice though, so it wasn't that great come performance time, plus I think they were nervous about being in front of so many people.

Apparently I made a big mistake in Tigger Class. Since about half the class moves too fast and the other half moves slow, when i was trying to keep the class together, I thought it was ok if they missed a few of the answers. Nope. Not ok at all. So I had to go back through all their books and find every blank that they didn't answer, and I have to help them during my break time until all the kids have the right answers. I asked some of the other teachers about that, and they said they made the same mistake, and that it's ok to fill in some of the answer for them, because I guess the parents are really picky, and don't want anything left out. I really really really hate when I get in trouble for something that no one ever told me about. It's extremely frustrating. But whatever, lesson learned, I'll get over it.

Since we don't have to learn too many pages in our workbooks, I try to make games and activities that the girls can do in class to help reiterate what they learned, like having them find colors and shapes in the room or giving them pictures that they have to put up on the wall. We're also making Halloween crafts this week. I made them little ghost necklaces out of glue and we glued together bats that are now laminated and hanging from the ceiling. I'm super excited for Friday because we are having our big Halloween party, and all the kids come dressed up and just play around all day.