the week is going by....

Tuesday August 27th
Today was the Drama presentation, so I missed out on an hour of France. No crying! Australia was well behaved and worked quickly. For Denmark, we were supposed to watch a video... of course we were not assigned to have the seminar room... so when I took the class there, there was another class that already was there watching something. What did I do? I went to that teachers classroom, had my students sit down there, and I used their computer and TV to watch a video.
My first graders took a test today... I started looking at them, and it looks like at least half of the class got a 100%. Yesterday I did review with them instead of introducing new material. I'd rather be a day behind and have better grades. I can always catch up. I also gave the students 15 minutes before the test to study. Most re-read the story, and I let them ask me questions.  This taught me one thing.... the students had a ton of questions about what words meant. Words not relevant to the test, but still there was a lot of questions. Next story we do, I will let the kids interrupt as we are reading so they know what these words are. It may help them. A lot of the words were verbs and adjectives. I guess I usually assume that they would ask me if they did not know something... It turns out they do not. Maybe it was because we were taking a test, or maybe it is because I do not think I specifically asked or told them to do that.
Here is a picture of several of my Denmark 1st graders. When I was sick, they were in the teachers room taking pictures with my phone (I let them play with it). I then got my phone an took a picture of the three of them. They are in the teachers room almost every day before their class starts. I was looking through my phone and saw this pic, and figured I might as well add it.

The left is Chloe, then Ann in the middle and Diana with the Windy head band.

Korea class was good. Most of them do not know they are getting split up... I think Rachel was going to tell them today. I sure hope it works out. It will probably have the most positive effect on Angel... She came and was bright and enthusiastic, but the class definitely dragged her enthusiasm down. Erica could go either way.... it may help her to be away from Dylan, but I am not sure if she is good with change. Hopefully whatever teacher gets her still gives her that extra attention... While her attitude is still not great... I have definitely gotten her to open up, talk a little more, ask some questions, smile and laugh. Danny will succeed without Dylan. When Dylan is not in class, Danny is a lot better as a student... works harder and talks more. Daniel will still be with Dylan. Daniel is smart but does not care so he does not work. Dylan is smart, but her is lazy and does not not care and wants to get his way. I am not sure if I will be moved to teach any of their classes. It is supposed to be Erica Angel and Danny together and Daniel and Dylan. I would rather teach the first three because there is potential, but restarting Daniel and Dylans desire to learn has thus far been fruitless.
Tonight Rob, Sam, Sarah and I went to Costco. We ate dinner there. The hotdogs are great, and this time I also had a chicken bake, which is delicious. The food is super cheap too. We went to buy alcohol for Callums going away party this weekend. He is moving back to Europe next week to go to school (I think England, but not 100 percent). We are renting a hotel room that is called a party room. It has a 10 person hot tub, a pool table, huge TV, and all other sorts of fun things. So it will be fun, but it will be sad to see Callum go.
Thats all about today...