“It’s amazing what you’ll find face-to-face…”

I think I am starting to warm up to my 5eme kids. I feel like they are pretty smart. Either that, or I am not paying close enough attention and I just keep calling on the smart kids. I am giving them a quiz on Thursday over the stuff we have been reviewing, and I guess then we will see if they understand what I am teaching.

I have started making a class dictionary with all three classes. And I love it. As we are doing exercises the kids will come across a word they don’t know, I will either act out the word, draw it, pretty much anything to get them to understand the word, then I ask for the French word and write that on the board too. I tried to explain it to them earlier, but until we really got a start on the dictionary did they finally get it. And it was really cute, today there were a couple kids who came up to me and asked me for the word in English. This one boy brought a flashlight up to me.

Oh, and as a warm-up/review I had the 6eme kids sing the ABCs. It was sooooooooo cute. I think I almost started crying, they made me so happy/proud. After singing it a couple of times, I had them do it on their own, and the feeling was, well, indescribable. And they were so happy that they got it on their own! The looks on their faces. It is so precious.

I have these two girls who sit in the front of the room and they are sooooo smart. Actually their whole group is really bright. But every time we do a new lessom, this girl, Lucia gets so happy. I ish I could’ve captured the look on her face when she found out we were doing, the alphabet, numbers, and to be. So cute.

As much as I hate lesson planning and stressing out in class because sometimes they don’t listen…this job is SO worth it. I love it here.