Despite the seemingly constant deluge of rain outside and a series of health-related trials in my personal life, things have been quite bright in my classrooms.
I started teaching general music at a school in Nablus and am enjoying it immensely! Along with tutoring and my TFP classes in the village, I am humming along at a happy busy rate.
The following is a version of the post that will most likely be posted to my official TFP blog (http://tfpdeiralhatab.wordpress.com/) in the next couple of days. As it is only about what I am doing in Deir al Hatab these days, I hope to get another post out soon that has a fuller update.
We started several new exciting projects in Deir al Hatab this week. The students worked on their vocabularies, learning and labeling all the common classroom items. My two younger classes learned everything from eraser to desk to trash can. Now the students can ask for the pencil sharpener by name instead of grunting and waving their pencils around!
I started teaching general music at a school in Nablus and am enjoying it immensely! Along with tutoring and my TFP classes in the village, I am humming along at a happy busy rate.
The following is a version of the post that will most likely be posted to my official TFP blog (http://tfpdeiralhatab.wordpress.com/) in the next couple of days. As it is only about what I am doing in Deir al Hatab these days, I hope to get another post out soon that has a fuller update.
We started several new exciting projects in Deir al Hatab this week. The students worked on their vocabularies, learning and labeling all the common classroom items. My two younger classes learned everything from eraser to desk to trash can. Now the students can ask for the pencil sharpener by name instead of grunting and waving their pencils around!
We have a new project called Student of the Month. The students will compete against each other for the next four weeks to earn as many points as they can in order to win the title of Student of the Month. There are lots of ways to earn points including never missing a class, memorizing and spelling new words, and even inviting Ms. Violet for tea. I'm hoping to meet some of my students' families in the next couple of weeks, and of course drink some delicious tea.
The new song this week was a hit! We learned "Miss Mary Mack" and all the accompanying claps. The additions to the students' vocabularies were great (buttons, silver, fence, etc.) and even better was the amount of fun the students had learning it. They have taken to singing it before and after class. See the video below for a snippet of some of the students singing before class.
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