Hi everyone,
We're both pretty knackered, but thought we would give you a quick update on the last couple of days.
Yesterday was a public holiday here for human rights, so we didnt have our uni students and went in at 9 to just ahve our class witht the kids. We didnt have to do much work because it was a holiday so steph and i combined our classes and talked about friends, getting them to draw lots which they loved of course. then we taught them a chorus of a song about sharing by jack johnson and andrew played his guitar. thye all loved it and kept singing it, but the down side is now its stuck in all of our heads and getting really annoying!
We had all of the afternoon off, so we had a rest and then went bowling! we were surprised that it was quite similar to home and we had a good time there. Steph won the first game, and I was on a winning streak in the second, but we had to finish because our hour was up, so we will never knwo.
We went on to the FCC (foreign correspondance club) where we had some delicious cocktails and chips and then we were very happy because we had pizza for dinner. It was a very enjoyable night with lots of laughs.
Today, we had a bit of a sleep in, which was nice and then planned our lessons. Our uni class went well, we gave them a small test on the stuff we've done this week and then taught them some grammar. Fortunately, we over planned for today so we will be able to use the other stuff to teach on monday.
My (elise) class wasn't bad today. Being friday, we don't have to teach rigid english vocab or grammar. So i had a book with different world flags that i bought from the bookstore the other day. We talked about each place and then i wrote some sentences up on the board which they copied and then drew the flag. I managed to make it last for the majority of the lesson which was good and then some played games with steph adn andrew and some kids outside, while some just stayed in and drew. Its so good knowing that they love to draw becuase its the best time filler ever!
My ( Steph) class went ok, we started by doing a test, which showed they had really improved on their irregular plurals, but they are still struggling with their sentences. I thought they might enjoy writting and drawing their own picture books, so i tried a couple of diffrent ways to get them into this, however no one was interested, so they just did their normal ignore me routine. Giving up on this i just played games with them , and some of Andrews and Elise's kids for the second half. I am good at the diffrent games, so the afternoon was quite enjoyable. We played an epic game of simon says because it took me about half n hr top get everyone out.
We were all still really tired from last night, so we just went for dinner at the Khmer Kitchen, which was have frequented this week. Now were going to stock up on cholcolate and head up to Sarah rooom to watch tv.
We are really looking forward to tommorow because we are heading to the Killing Fields and Toul Sleng Museum.
Goonight,
Love Steph and Elise
Ps Mum hit me an email with ideas for my kids please!! ( Steph)
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