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Monday, October 26, 2009

My Little Babies!

I love, love, love teaching my kindergarten class!

Everyday, when I walk in, this is what I see! They are always sitting on this bench, and they always turn around, smile, wave, scream "wwaaaaa!! (The Korean version of: yea!!)" and say "Hi teacher!" (I taught them that!)


Today we worked on our ABC's! I'm amazed everytime I teach that class how my creative juices flow! I remember before I came here, being scared to death that I would end up teaching little kids, because I had no idea what to do with them! Now, I'm a natural and wouldn't want it any other way! I have no idea, sometimes, how I ever taught High Schoolers!!

They loved this game that I made up on the spot! (The lady, 2nd from the right, is Rina... She's my teacher's aid in that class! I absolutely adore her.)


We started learning to write the alphabet this week! I knew kids would rather write on white boards than paper, so I bought these nifty little boards! They were a big hit! Notice some of them are already starting to write in bubble letters! I'm just that good of a writing teacher (insert sarcasm)!!


Then we did some coloring! They didn't know it, but they were learning English while they colored!


How great are the colors I chose for them to color Pooh?! They had to wait for me to tell them what color each number would be... I did that so they wouldn't cheat and color things before I told them what to do! (I made this by the way! I found Pooh online and used the paint program to insert the numbers... My kindergarten teacher used to do this same thing and I loved it.)


My little munchkins! (5 of them were absent today because of a cold...)


Tah dah!


This is how we say goodbye every Tuesday! We put our hands in the shape of a heart on our heads and say "Bye bye, I love you!"


... and then give each other a nice big squeeze!


You wonder why I'm in Korea... This is just one of the hundreds of reasons!

Octopussy, mmmm!

We had octopus jap che for lunch today and all of the teachers were saying things like: "The octopussy is very good today." or "Oh, octopussy! mmmm" I'm not sure why they call it that, but it definitely still makes me laugh!


On another note... I still can't believe I eat this stuff for lunch! Can you?! What ever happened to getting pizza and french fries, or a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, or corn dogs for lunch at school?! Octopus pasta, really?!

No Accidents Tally!

I just noticed this, on the board, this morning of the 4th grade classroom next to our English class. It means that there have been no accidents (fights, broken bones, broken desks, broken windows, etc...) for 4 days in their class! This is a HUGE accomplishment for this class! They are crazy! If they make it 10 days in a row, they get a prize!

Gmarket.com


There's about to be trouble, and my nice little pile of savings is not gonna be too happy about it! This afternoon, Stella helped me create a Gmarket.com account, which is the Korean equivalent of a discounted amazon or ebay maybe, but 100 times better! You can buy anything and everything you could possibly imagine and have it delivered right to your door, or in my case, right to my school's front office! Everytime Stella has on a cute dress or shirt, I ask her where she bought it and she smiles and says, "Gmarket!"

My first purchase will be a much needed flash drive to replace the one that died on me last week... and maybe a pair of shoes, or a winter scarf. This is all pending whether or not I can navigate my way through all the Korean writing! Guess that just gives me another reason to keep studying!

www.gmarket.com