Challenges

Wow, can't believe I only have one more day left at the orphanage! It has been absolutely amazing, but not without its challenges. Even when you are in a place that is your biggest passion and you meet and love all these amazing children, you still get exhausted and frustrated at times.

That's life I guess. Nothing's perfect. I had an extremely challenging class today, teaching year 3 maths. They're usually great but today their behaviour was so hard to handle. I had to walk out and come back in after 10 minutes and then discuss with the kids how being disruptive can make the teacher and others feel, and how they would improve their behaviour for our last class tomorrow. Fingers crossed they took it in!

The English class which has been quite challenging has turned out really well.
We've been reading a story called the Hungry Giant which they absolutly love! Today we came up with ideas for our own story and tomorrow we're going to put in adjectives to make it more interesting. I love it once you really connect with the class and they understand your expectations and you're on a better wavelength with each other...if that makes sense.

It's hard when you're only there for 2 weeks to really get into a good routine with the class and implement effective behaviour management strategies. You can implement some but the most effective ones are a process which take time.

As you can tell, I'm learning a lot! It's been such great practice teaching every day and I'm so glad I have the opportunity to practice this before I get into full time teaching. On good days, teaching is the most rewarding thing ever.

The kids drew pictures to illustrate their story about the angry lion that wanted some bananas and how the people ran but couldn't find any bananas. So the giant roared and the people ran to a house and got some meat and gave it to the lion. Then the lion was happy. Then the people were happy and they all became friends.

Cute story! Here is a picture of me with that class. It's year 4; they're awesome kids. They have the most awful life stories but it's so, so great to see them love learning and engage in the activities and have fun.