Good morning everyone! Or good afternoon or goodnight if you
are reading this later in the day! It is an exciting day. Last day before we
leave to Austin for Chris and Marynes’ wedding! Yoohoo! Today is the big day. In my first day of my 30 day commitment I gathered the courage to offer to volunteer giving an English class to kids in the pre-school next door. Today is that day! The
first day I get the chance to work with kids.
My plan is to interact with them only in English since I read from the article Tracy sent me (thanks Tracy), that kids learn by sensing and if they are immersed in English in my class they will learn the best by listening and then by trying to repeat. As for materials, I will buy a bunch of fruits and will have a show and tell of the fruit names, colors, shapes and how many there are of each and in total. I will then have them say the colors and numbers themselves and then I will have them interact with the fruit so they can experience it fully. Maybe next class will be actually eating the fruit. More sensing, tasting! This is the basis for the class. I am excited, because I have heard that the pre-school teacher is really creative so I am going to have a great opportunity to learn from her and to learn from the kids themselves. I know kids are the greatest teachers especially if you spend a lot of time with them.
My plan is to interact with them only in English since I read from the article Tracy sent me (thanks Tracy), that kids learn by sensing and if they are immersed in English in my class they will learn the best by listening and then by trying to repeat. As for materials, I will buy a bunch of fruits and will have a show and tell of the fruit names, colors, shapes and how many there are of each and in total. I will then have them say the colors and numbers themselves and then I will have them interact with the fruit so they can experience it fully. Maybe next class will be actually eating the fruit. More sensing, tasting! This is the basis for the class. I am excited, because I have heard that the pre-school teacher is really creative so I am going to have a great opportunity to learn from her and to learn from the kids themselves. I know kids are the greatest teachers especially if you spend a lot of time with them.
Young kids are one of the closest sources of wisdom from
Being. They have just arrived from the Source with all the wisdom to develop
themselves. They do not have all the filters created by the belief systems that
grownups have. Actually, kids have all the wisdom and then their filters and
brain patterns start forming as they learn. It is important to me that kids
learn through their curiosity and senses so the brain patterns that are formed
let them continue to use their curiosity and senses to explore life as they
grow up. Their learned brain patterns should let them grow and evolve always
instead of blocking them based on fear of doing something wrong. I trust that
Being will give me the wisdom to interact with the kids in a way that expands
them and not contracts them. I will let the kids guide me since they are the
source of wisdom.
Below is a picture of Tommy and me soaking up the Sun as
little kids with my mom and grandma Rorra. The second picture is my mom with
one of the families she works with. She also is an educator. I will definitely
have a post about her soon.
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| Mami, Tommy, Allan and Abuela Rorra |
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| Mami and one of her families. |
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