School is well under way here at World of Knowledge and there is so much to say it's hard to know where to start....
I teach 3 group of kids: one is composed of three 8-9 year olds who are learning to read. The other 2 are made of 3-6 four year olds who are new to school. It's a pretty wide spread but I really enjoy the differences. There are pros and cons to both. I teach from about 2-6 pm everyday. I spend my mornings reading, prepping for lessons, studying scriptures and we can't forget breakfast and lunch! We really do love our meals here.
The kids I teach are hilarious, primarily Volodya, aka “Vova”. He is the most constant student in my Advanced Basic Reading Class. At about 8 years old his antics crack me up. A week or two he began talking to me about airplanes, specifically the Boeing 747 and the MD 11 FE. He drew me a picture of the MD 11 and surprised me when he started reciting the Emergency spiel for the Boeing 747 but he finished it too! It was almost word for word and he drew me pictures of the different things they talked about. That boy loves his airplanes.
This last week Vova brought his model Boeing 777. The plane is a boy and his name is “British Airways” or British for short. While British was paying attention for the beginning of class he started becoming a distraction. Teacher Nusly took the plane away and Vova FREAKED. British didn’t like her and wouldn’t talk to her for the next hour and a half. Anyways, British fell asleep after that and so we built a fortress for him in the back of the room. I explained to Vova that we still needed to have class so we whispered for the next hour including the songs we sang. I never realized how TIRED whispering would make my cheeks! At the end of class Vova had 14 tokens so British woke up and I had a pleasant conversation face to face with a model airplane. It was a great dayJ
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