KMI

I wanted you to have a look at what I do every Tuesday during my middle class. Several months ago the school purchased a program called KMI. Each child is given a binder with a list of different boxes that they should work on. Inside the binder they will find a little book and then some kind of activity. They work through the book until they are done and then I will sign it off, assigning them a new box. Under each category of activity there are different levels of difficulty, going from 1 to 12, currently the 3 year olds are 1/2, 4- 4/5, and 5-9/10. When they finish all the boxes in the level they are working on they will go to the next level.

The kids really enjoy doing them, even those that do it everyday after school (remember education is super duper important over here!). Every Tuesday morning when I walk into class they will say "today we do KMI!!"

Sandy

Katherine

Charlie

They each do their activity on a mat, to help keep their stuff all together (I have to check each box before it can be put away every time to make sure that we don't lose pieces)

Half of the boxes

The other part. I pull out the 3 year olds for them, some of them could find their own boxes but it would take too much time so it's just easier for me to find them all.

Rosy

Zoey

Alice P.

Fiona (being good and waving her hand when she was ready to show me the page instead of yelling "teacher, teacher" over and over)

Jimmy

Cindy

Shawn

Iris

Meggy

Sam

Ruby

Max

Hammer Time

Well, it wasn't exactly a hammer, but it was still fun. In "honor" of Cinco de Mayo (yes I know it wasn't actually the 5th of May, but we fit it in where we can) we had a pinata (you got to use any excuse you can to have fun :D) We used a blow-up toy to make sure that the pinata didn't break on the first hit (we were using a pinata that had been used before and actually only had one layer of paper on it)- though we ended up having to just turn it over and dump out the candy :D. Sorry the pictures are small (you can click them to make them bigger), but I figured that this was better than uploading 50 pictures.

I love that the Teachers got involved and I especially love Stephanie's look on her face .

The 5 year old's- we made sure that Jimmy and Kevin went last so that everyone else got a turn.

4 Year Olds

3 Year Olds

Free Clinic

I went to a free clinic a couple of weeks ago (read: MISTAKE). I had a little while before I had tutoring so I figured that I would offer myself test body. There was a large group of highly trained specialists, the best in their field. It included a lot of poking, prodding, injections (I think that I might have been given a lot of botox...which would be what I get for going to the doctor by myself when I don't speak the language :D), they listened to my heartbeat (among other things) many times over. As one doctor was beginning to finish up their testing (IE: lose interest) another doctor would come over and start their tests. All in all this visit was over an hour long. Every time I would try to sit-up, I would be told "no you can't wake-up" and then be pushed back down onto the floor. Who knew that 3, 4, and 5 year olds could be specialists...or at least they seemed to think that they knew what they were doing :D.

(Sorry I couldn't figure out how to rotate the pictures)

I can't remember all of my "doctors" but I know that some were: Jimmy, Judy, Peggy, Yoggy, Jeremy, Wendy, Iris, and Annie