Friday February 6, 2009
First class for grades 3-5
Friday was the first class for grades 3-5. I was highly anticipating it and arrived at the community center on time and set up for the enthrall of children. Chris Cook was the first to arrive followed by some newbies. As children came in one by one I noticed how many new kids had joined us! I saw many of our regulars, Rachel, Maisy, Adeline, Nicole, Chayton, Kayla, Elizabeth, Jocelyn etc. Jill arrived and we continued taking money from people.
This one mother (of a boy named James) came up to us and asked if parents could stay. I told her that I would prefer that they didn't and she looked at me with a nervous look. Then she proceeded to tell me that she didn't know what to expect and that made her worried. She (seriously! no word of a lie) asked what I do with kids who don't pay attention? WTF?! I gave her this look as if to say "are you a moron? Do you stay in your child's classroom just because he doesn't pay attention? idiot!" But I held back lol. Instead I said "Well, I've been doing this for five years, don't worry about it." Haha. So she stood by her song for a few minutes until I started the class and then left. A couple of parents went into the smaller room and read a book. Just go do errands people! lol.
I started off with an introduction game, that didn't go too well...the kids don't have a good memory ha. So I changed the game a bit and then had them play a Stage Directions game, which was amusing. Then we did a little bit of improv and then the class was over. Went by tooooo fast. There is this one girl in the class who is in my Forest Park class...her name is Abigail and I want her not to be in this production! She is a pain! BLURGH! But oh well.
So there ended up being 44 kids in the class...yup FORTY FOUR! And I know that a few of the kids weren't in class on Friday so they're coming this friday. Which brings the total kids up to this point to be EIGHTY THREE KIDS! YUP - 83! And that isn't including the 1st and 2nd graders! CRAZINESS! :) But I love it
2 comments:
you're really good at remembering names. i don't know how you do it!
yeah, I don't know how I do it either. I pretty much already know all or most of the kids. And by Friday I'll know all of the names of the 3-5th graders.
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