From 3 to 5 every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, you´ll find me at the Iglesia de Dios, teaching English to 22 kids from the community. We are writing books, ¨ABC¨ books for the younger kids who are about 6 years old and ¨The Story of _(name of each student)_¨ for the older kids who are about 8 and 9 years old. I have a collection of stickers, from Mylar animals to fuzzy animals, cars, hands and feet. I also have googley eyes. Today we played Hokey-Pokey with both groups. They really love ¨Put your nose in, put your nose out, put your nose in and shake it all about.¨ It´s good for teaching ¨left¨and ¨right¨. I am also using a CD by Raffi. ¨There´s a Spider on the Floor¨ is a big hit since the spider goes from the floor to the leg to the stomach to the neck to the head. Then it jumps back to the floor again and it starts all over again. Keeping the kids moving is the key. That and candy on the way out the door.
I hope we get to finish the books. It is sometimes slow going, but the art work the older kids are doing is amazing. They love using their colored pencils and the stickers. Tomorrow we will continue with letter E for the young kids and dialogues for the older ones.
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