Teaching Stories (Part 5)
As I write, we have just about started the second quarter at school. Work continues to be a mix of fun, challenge, exasperation, and triumph, but when it all boils down to it, I continue enjoying the work I do. We have many things constantly changing and coming up, and here are a bit of teaching (and life) reflections on this school year, thus far. With the new program we’ve put in place, I mostly teach Language Arts to Kinder, First, Second, and Third. Kinder in particular, I really enjoy. We’ve been working on phonics, and I use the Jolly Phonics approach where they sing a song associated with each letter. The kids love singing the songs, and it’s really cute when we’re together outside of class time and they’ll see one of the letters we’ve learned and randomly burst into song. Class with First grade is challenging for me. This year's class has 26 students, which is only 2 students more than my class last year, but this year's class is much more difficult to handle