It's that time of year again...100 Days of School!
Last year I talked about the history of this celebration but this time our school photographer, Mia, got better pictures. This year was a little different than last year.
Last year I had parent-teacher conferences but this year that was cancelled. The conferences were at the same time as the students' performance and many parents didn't want to miss the performance last year, so many didn't come. This was solved this year by not having them.
The day started at 8:30 am where my TA, Jeanne and I gave a 20 minute presentation about the first grade English curriculum to the parents. Then each class was shortened from one hour to 30 minutes and all the parents could watch our classes. We ate lunch then it was off to the concert.
Since I could watch all the performances this year I can tell you what each class did. 101, 102, and 103 each had to write the character for person, chant a poem about becoming an adult, and then performed a poem that was directed by their homeroom teacher. You can see that the students are wearing their traditional Han outfits again, however this year the water bowl was taken out of the program.
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| The students having their knowledge chakra painted on. |
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| The students' calligraphy of person. |
102 the students dressed as lily pads and fish for their poem.
103 pretended to be a class during recess with a strict teacher watching over them. When the "teacher's" back was turned the class snuck out of the theatre. It was by far the funniest one.
After that the students had to solve rubik's cubes, did a dance with all the extra curricular sports, performed the two English songs I taught them, and then ended with an English skit that my TA's Jenny and Jeanne wrote.
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| The sports dance. They had ribbon and flag dances and basketball players. |
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| Colors of the Rainbow was performed again along with If Your Happy and You Know It |
I would say that this year was a total success! Also the parents are not as strict as the parents last year. This year the parents all stated that they thought the students' English was very good and were pleased with the discipline and homework.
My reflection is that I do think that I am a better teacher this year. I found that I am better at giving directions because I know what the skill set of first graders are. My TA's also know what kind of videos and homework the students like to listen to and complete which means the turn in rate is much higher. After the midterm exams, we noticed that the average grades are an A compared to last year when they averaged a B. I am very happy with my second year of teaching here and hope to have a good finals exam week in January.
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