It's Writing Class!

Of course, it's not all games and colouring, from time to time I also encourage the little monsters to learn some English! This weeks theme is "Animals", and I have cemented my position as the best animal impressionist in the world, possibly. My goat noises always get much laughter, and my penguin "waddle" launches a chain reaction of thigh-high imitators. If anyone has any suggestions for what noise a giraffe makes I'd be very interested. Most of all though, my gorilla impression is uncannily accurate, and earned me the affectionate moniker of "King Kong", which, at least, I think is preferable to "Shrek". But at some point, playtime must cease, and the pencils must be used for something other than throwing or bogey picking.

Let's focus on Jane Class, who are no longer as autistic as I once feared, and have their own entertainers among them who are starting to shine. First up we have another of the unfortunate victims of the naming ceremony the Korean teachers must have held.....Grag. Sounds more like some alien from Jupiter, but at least it's close to a Human English name. I'm still trying to figure out where they got the "English" names Helia, Meric, Gold, Ustina, and Bip. Anyway Grag seems quite young even compared to his classmates, and I never expect wonders from him.

As you can see, Grag didn't understand the instructions to write "Snake" five times, "Rabbit" five times, and "Frog" five times. Instead we have one "Snake" (backwards N a popular mistake), a "Rabbit", a "Swake" and what appears to be a "Ftibgbr", which is completely lost on me. Maybe some species indigenous to Jupiter? There's not a frog in sight, tut tut. Also he wrote his name in Korean which is fair enough given his English alternative.

Next we have Benny, who has quickly turned into a very cool little guy, and is pretty good at English when encouraged. Apart from a row of backward N's it's a decent attempt, and I certainly can't fault his name at the bottom.

Lastly we have Allie showing the rest of the class how it's done. Actually there are quite a few decent kids in Jane class, but because I lazily let them draw on the back of these papers when they were done, I had a hard time getting any of them back in the end. But, considering these kids are either 4 or 5 years old, you have to be impressed at them writing english to this standard.


In a forthcoming school post, you can hear about the best classroom discovery yet, the workout regime I have created in place of any local gym to attend. Basically, this involves me lifting kids, sometimes 3 at a time in a variety of techniques you would find at a gym. They totally love it and see it as their reward for completing various English speaking exercises, the favourite one being me lifting them off Teachers chair and doing a "Power Ranger" mid-air lap of the class. Seriously, I wake up each morning aching, so hopefully it will pay off eventually!! Plus it's obviously lots of fun. If it starts to take effect, I might even move on to giving Fat Jimmy some more height in his leaps! In case you hadn't realised, there's a new post underneath as well. Cheerio!