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

Tender Moments

This morning when I went downstairs for my classes, Wendy ran up and gave me a hug. She then handed me this card and ran back to her class. What better way is there to start your day? I know that there are days that make me want to go insane, cry, scream or a whole bunch of other emotions, but it's things like this that remind me why I love working with kids. They have unconditional love and constantly share that love with you.

Andrea just told me that this morning Wendy told her "I wait for Teacher Beth" as a reason why she wasn't going to class yet.

Sock Hop

Three funny things about this picture...

1. These are all the socks that I did in the laundry today.

2. This is not even all the socks that I have here with me in Taiwan.

3. I actually hate wearing socks because my feet always feel claustrophobic.

So continuing with the Dr. Suess theme of the week Andrea suggested that because I have so many fun socks with me that I might take my socks and have the kids match them together. I thought that it would be fun so on Tuesday that is what I did. 3 year olds had fun doing it, they specially loved being told good job and be cheered on Teacher Stephanie and I. 5 year olds started out well they were having fun, when my socks started disappearing, I finally noticed that someone was wearing a sock on their feet so I requested that everyone take them off, Kevin started to take them off and he had at least 8 of my socks (plus his own) on!!! I don't know how he wasn't sweating!

Beussical Sirthday!

I look at the amazing things that people can do with words and wish that I had that talent, but alas it is not meant to be :( One person that has the talent of working with words is Dr. Suess, this week was his birthday and in honor of it being so Andrea and I decided to make our morning class theme based off of his books (we were going to do our afternoon class but we now must have the same theme as the Chinese classes). I had brought several hats of my Dad's that I had inherited, not sure if I would use them but knew that a good hat is always something you should have. I decided to do something with them this week, based loosely off Cat in the Hat. I had balls and we used the different hats as baskets. But before Wednesday came of course I had to play with the hats and be, well, you know...ME! :D