Pictures of my students

I have 24 kindergarten students that I am teaching. It has been a very interesting process of learning what they are able to do and understand blended with what I can do and how the plays out when you have 24 of them all at one time! Thankfully I have a local full-time assistant who is a wonderful young lady who is alert and understands the flow of events. She and I can get a LOT done in one morning!

I thought you all would enjoy some photos......

Birthdays are a big deal in class! Parents often come with bags of birthday things expecting ME to put it all together. sigh. cultural differences! My assistant and I have it down pretty fast now. I love that she likes to be efficient with me (= most kids are turning 5.

I am not a trained KG teacher so many of these skill-building crafts are new to me. Apparently we have to do like 25 self portraits so kids learn to draw a face properly. Who knew. You can see they still need some practise. I am NOT a crafty art person when it comes to small children!!!

I have all local kids with the exception of one Pakistani and one Egyptian. They are really fun and happy kids for the most part. There are 5 boys I could drop kick out of class most any day but really only one of them is actually devious. The other four are just undisciplined rowdy boys.

I work with them in groups of 6 at a time in hopes them can actually HEAR me and FOCUS. Not so much of either goes on. sigh.

These rainbow fans were my one flash of craft brilliance so far this year. Somehow they looked awesome even though the kids participated. (-;