Monday, August 24th is the first day of school. There are 15 children on my class list, only 13 showed today--2 from USA. The rest are all over, one each from Guinee, Germany, Ivory Coast, Pakistan, Netherlands, and two from UK, India, and two with dual citizenship, USA/Sierra Leone and Mali/Australian. I have been practicing saying their names--the teacher next door in prek 4 class has been coaching me.
I have been studying all the new curricula I will be using, and trying to integrate them into themes, reinforcing concepts, vocabulary and adding read aloud story time which isn't part of any of the curricula.
The day just flew by--The children had a full afternoon with 3 specialist--Music and then Art next door in the preK-4 classroom, the 4's are only half day, and then on to French for last period of the day. The children have French every day. Tomorrow they computers, then PE, and then French.
My assistant teacher, Sedi, is terrific and I would never have managed to get the classroom ready without her. She is expecting a child in October and will probably be out until after the Christmas break. I am so grateful to have her assistance in getting starting the year.
I will post some photos of the classroom soon.
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Yay first day of school! Makes me think of the smell of crayons. Those kids are so lucky to have you as their teacher!
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