I finished Intenstives on Monday. I enjoyed teaching the phonics class and the kids in the class were great but was getting very tired and worn out. I was having to be at work over an hour earlier than normal. Then teach my regular classes as well. Some days I had to go to training workshops after school or stay after to prepare lesson plans and materials which I usually did in the mornings but couldn't do with teaching the extra class.
It has been a good week so far my Kinder kids just amaze me sometimes. They are so smart!!! My new little girl was telling me all about her trip to Disneyland when she lived in the states. She was very detailed and spoke in complete sentences-that is just amazing for a 4 year old-let alone one who is not speaking in their native language.
We have been working on the sentence I have this week. I give the kids flashcards of items such as a dog, cat, car etc. They then go up to the board and write I have a and whatever word is on their flashcard. Well after phonics yesterday we had a few minutes before the class period was to be over and I decided to write some I have sentences on the board and see if the kids could read them.
They were reading them almost before I finished writing. I decided to make the sentences a bit harder and add some describing words. I wrote-I have a green frog. As soon as I wrote the g I heard I have a green frog. Then I wrote I have a black dog. Again they got it.
I was so proud of my class.
TTFN