I got to go visit my friend Jenna teach yesterday. I taught with her for two years before I quit to stay at home. I had so much fun watching her and her roommate (yes, roommate) teach. They made bubble maps for reindeer and created a reindeer out of their thumb prints and pretzels for antlers. Then I got to help their 3rd graders make "cootie catchers" using the future tense. But how do you teach these students who are learning English as a Second Language about the future tense when the English language doesn't really have one? We just say going to, will, and about to. Well, Tara dressed as a fortune teller and transformed herself into Madame McCamey and told the children their future...
You will take a bath tonight.
You are going to eat chicken nuggets for dinner.
You will miss the bus next week.
You will become a fire fighter.
The kids were into it. They were giggling, they all wanted their future told and then what do you know? They all understood the future tense.
I'm so proud of my ESL teachers. These women are working in tight quarters with high expectations. Take a normal classroom and divide it in half. Then take that one half and divide it in half again, giving two teachers a half of a half. You have two teachers working in ONE HALF of a classroom and they have as many as 22 kids in there at the same time!!! I miss it so much and it was good to be back. Thank you for letting me help, read a story, and watch you both do amazing, life changing work.
Today the girls and I went to the library where we met up with Katie and little Higgs. We enjoyed story hour and got to see Tia. Then we came home and enjoyed some lunch and played outside. It was in the sixties here and we had a good time. :)
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