Well, I am officially a terrible blogger. Its so hard for me to make myself sit down and write something that makes sense on here. Anyways, I'll try for an update....

School is going well still. I've been doing 'body week' this week and last week and its really fun. At the end of most days we do the hokey pokey and I let the kids pick which body parts to do. Their favorites are shoulders (they like to shimmy), stomach, and tongue. Tomorrow I am going to make a giant person-puzzle and give them all a piece and have them put it together. I hope it works, sometimes stuff doesn't go as smoothly as it does in my head!

Two weeks ago a new kid named Amani came to our school, and from the very first day he just cried his eyes out the whole time he was there. It was really hard to teach with him always wailing in the background, and some days the teachers actually had to lock the doors to keep him from running home. I decided I needed to do something about it so one day I just sat and read him a book over and over and over until he stopped crying. Then I let him pass out the pencils to the other kids, which was really funny because he was acting like me and telling them to say thank you when he gave them out. After that he was much calmer, and he hasn't cried at all since then! When I get to school he is always waiting for me in the doorway.

No more time!!!