Tuesday, November 3, 2009

November 3rd- teaching in Pattiveeranpatti and back to Bethania!

Today was very busy and fun! Now we're finally back at Bethania from Patti, we were so happy to get back and see all our brothers and sisters again! It was great arriving to their smiles and yelling, surprised that we were home earlier than expected. "I very very happy sister! I see Paige sister and Kelsey sister coming and I very happy." So sweet!

This morning we taught more at our Lakshmi school in Pattiveeranpatti. We taught a group of six Upper Kindergarten students, 5 years old, who were very cute. It was good to have a smaller group of children, as there was a lot more comprehension, participation and learning we feel. They were very quiet and shy at first since there were so few of them, but soon warmed up to us. It was very fun, reading, acting out and talking with them. They love doing the actions to words- driving, shoveling, up, down, push, pull. Its good to help them understand the story too. After the story we played some games and gave out stickers, which always makes us tons of friends. We've had the entire kindergarten class singing head, shoulders, knees and toes, and if that's not success, I don't know what is.

After the UKG grade was finished, we did another art class with the second half of the third grade. They had fun drawing face proportions and a self-portrait. We had them fill out sentences about their favorite animal and color, then gave out stickers that matched. They were a very fun and excited group, even though some faces did look kind of strange, especially one that turned out with horns for some reason.

After lunch, we took a second grade class. We played our antonym and synonym matching words game. It was a bit difficult, as they didn't know all of the vocabulary words, but with some help got the hang of it and made good sentences with their words. We had some extra time at the end, so their teacher told us to tell any story we wanted. We improvised a version of the three little pigs that hopefully was close to the real story. We didn't quite know how to describe that the big bad wolf is killed by falling into a pot of boiling water. Paige's version was more, "The pig put a big thing of hot water under the chimney, and then the wolf came down the chimney to eat the pigs! And, yea... The wolf was gone!"

After packing up and having coffee, we got in the car for our 40 minute drive to Bethania at around 5. We spent the evening talking to the girls, playing chess and uno with the boys, and bringing out some new gifts from Madurai. Satish and Mani especially were really happy about the new chess board. We also had brought a soccer ball, which was a huge hit for about 30 minutes until it found its way to the pricker bush and was punctured... Hopefully can fix that somehow! There are also 2 volunteers here from Kodai for the next few days too. We're so happy to be back, have the kids happy, be able to spend as much time with them as we can before we go. Time is flying by here, we're not ready to leave at all!

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