Some More Teaching

Summer classes have come and gone and school has begun. There are the same amount of struggles as before if not more. We start our classes at eight in the morning by singing la cancion de creacion (The creation song), then we have prayer then start our lessons. Our first day I realized that our class was not just a heap of students but each one had a specific grade and it was categorized by the row of seats they were sitting in. From first to sixth we have nineteen students all in one class. This has formed a difficult curve in our teaching because now we have a huge difference of knowledge that the students understand. We have the kindergarteners that are now first graders, the first graders that know a little bit of what we learned in the past classes, the kids who know more because they were in our summer school, and the older kids that know tons because they soaked up everything we taught them and they were in our summer school. So many different levels and we are expected to teach them all at one time. It is absolutely amazing how a teacher can do that out here. Im not quite sure how the system and classes work out hear but I have not grasped the concept of how they can all be taught the same thing all at the same time when we have seven to twelve year olds. I love our student and the little first and second graders are so adorable! I have fun teaching the older kids because they grasp things so well but it is a huge challenge for us to teach them all at once. Somehow everyday it works out and they start to understand and become knowledgable of the information that we are teaching but I hope planning and teaching gets a little easier in this last month of April. We hope to soon start home visits and see each of our students family and home. Im excited to get another month to teach them all and I am looking forward to the fun we have with English games and inventing fun crafts and projects the help the learning progress.