Children's Love
Monday, my favorite among the week since I only have 2 periods with K3s. As the end of the school year is approaching in less than a month, my Chinese classes especially in K3 are busy practicing action song to be rendered on their graduation day early June. On top of that, due to the many (real nice) Thai holidays, we have to also try cover up some fun topics in their book before they move on to Grade 1. I know it is not necessary to finish the book and I am not trying to finish it but I want my students to get to do those really fun stuff in that book so that they don't miss out all the fun stuff and of course learn from these materials as well.
Basically my lp yesterday was completing some pages in the book and then practice for graduation. For the practice, I divided the students in a class into two groups so I could monitor and give comments to each of their move efficiently. (commercial real estate)
The first class went well. The students listened (although some are still monkeys from the holidays but they managed), participated and obeyed. Moving on to the next class (this class has a lot of smart ones but behavior wise not feasable), we started with the book. Then we moved on to the singing practice. Here is where they got wild. While some are doing the proper actions according to the song, some of the boys and girls just moved and danced hysterically like there is no tomorrow! I tried to tell them nicely that they have to cooperate and do the actions as a group since it really requires team work, they nodded. However, when the music was back on, they did exactly the same hysterical move and started screaming! Bam!!! That was it. I paused the music and stared at them with rodent eyes...gave them a piece of my mind that if they continue to misbehave like that they would no longer be able to sing with the rest of their friends on stage for graduation. That made them chuckled and upon meeting my rodent hot red eyes staring at them, they quiet. It went well throughout then and it was time for me to go. After they said their lao shi zai jian (goodbye teacher), some of them came running to me and grabbed hold of my feet, put their little hands around my waist to hug and kiss me!
Ohhhh....I tell you...My firey rodent eyes instantly looked like dripping melted chocolates!! The many blessings being a teacher! :)
