Good Day

Yes, today was good, a bit slow, but good.

I was supposed to co-teach the kindergarten class today, but they went on a picnic instead since the weather wasn't too bad.  So that meant I had no classes until about 2pm.  That gave me plenty of time to plan some lessons for later on, but I did have lots of wasted time too, since I haven't been at this long enough to properly plan lessons.  I was very tempted throughout the day to plan Mount & Blade, but the batteries in my mouse had gone dead, so I resisted the urge.

At lunch I tried something new, I had eel, not bad.  The rest of the lunch was pretty naff, rice, lots of cabbage and a spicy soup.  After the meal, I went out into the school grounds to get some more photos, which I shall post elsewhere, but it didn't take long.  So I wandered over and met some of the students, some of the younger ones dragged me around for a bit showing me random things.  Then I decided I would sit on the seesaw with two of the kids, but that turned into about 7 or 8 kids all at once.  It was good fun, a bit mad, but fun, but I had to stop because I was basically making it move myself, too many kids on the other end.

After that I did some kung-fu for the kids...but only at their behest.  Then I headed back in, to prepare for the next lesson (or my first).  I actually had a lesson planned for the 3rd graders, but no-one turned up.  Not sure why, the 3rd grade teacher thinks they forgot, but I think he forgot to tell them.  So that was another hour without teaching, but I can use the lesson later.  Finally I actually had a lesson with some 5th graders, only 3 of them due to after school classes clashing.  So the lesson I had planned for did not work out, so I had them come up with as many words as possible from the letters I provided.  It worked quite well, but next time I won't allow the kids to use any of the words around the room, because that's all one of them did.  I was hoping to gage their ability with this, I'll try something else maybe.

So basically there was not much teaching done by me today, nor did I use any of the plans I created, but they can be re-used.  But the day was still good because I got to have some fun with the kids.