On Mondays and Wednesdays Emily and I teach 40 minutes of English to some second grade classes. We just have to give them sentences and repeat them over and over again. It's actually rather boring and not my most favorite thing..
The days we aren't teaching English sentences, we kind of just hang out and finish up our lessons. We don't teach our ILP students until 2:30 and we only have them for 3 hours. We have a 15 minute opening where we say the rules, the calendar, talk about the weather, and sing songs. After that we break up into our smaller classes that have 8 students each. (Total we have over 40 students that we see!) Each week we are assigned something to teach them about. For example: this week I have kitchen so we are just making small snacks. We only have them for 25 minutes then we rotate classes.
The kids have gym, arts and crafts, games, drama, kitchen, and shop. But they are able to see each class everyday all week. Then at 5:00 we count their tokens and they leave! We give them tokens based on how much English they are speaking during class. Then at the end of the week, we add up all the tokens and they get prizes. We want them to only speak English in our classes so they can earn tokens. It sounds kind of odd, but it works and the kids love it!
Most nights we all eat dinner together and then just hang out! We usually just sit around and talk and watch movies, or we go to the market a lot. We love that place!! On the weekends we are usually busy on vacation, meetings, or hanging out! We have a LOT of downtime, but that's when we have the most fun:)
If anyone ever has any questions they want me to answer then feel free to ask away!
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