Week 3

This week has marked the majority of my teaching so far!

I've been doing 1 full lesson a day and still at least one full activity every lesson this week. I've gotten very comfortable now with the kids, finding a good mark between friend and teacher. When I am at the front of the class, they are happy to treat me as the place of authority, and talk to me rather than their regular teacher when they need more explanation. But when I'm assisting in an arts n crafts lesson or on the playground, they're all over me with hugs and swinging from my neck like they're the monkeys and I'm the tree! In fact this has given me the chance to teach them the words tree, monkey, koala and so on! They keep telling me I'm the best teacher or the 'fun one', which Juan Angel takes very well (thankfully). 

The year 6 class have been particularly loud and difficult to control this week, they're all excited about their upcoming camping trip. I was doing a story bingo with them (one of my favourite activities I've invented in which I tell them a story that uses all of their key vocab words and they have to listen out for their words to win the bingo) and they just wouldn't stop talking! I did my best to quiet them down but on the last lesson of the day even their usual teacher struggles sometimes. He gave them a talking to afterwards with lots of sarcastic 'gracias's but I resolved to get them motivated for the next lesson. When I told my mentor I wanted to teach their full lesson the next day he looked at me with apprehension and said 'If you're feeling brave'. In reality, I made it a competition lesson with sweets for the winners, because if authority doesn't work then bribery might! It did, and the lesson went great. I also received some more drawings from the little ones which always brightens my day.

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