I've been on summer break since the beginning of July and my days at site have been filled with teaching, art and movies. I've been happy that I've actually been able to keep myself busy and not be driven to boredom. At first, I was a little scared that none of my projects would pick up and I would be left with empty classrooms but so far that has not been the case. From Monday through Friday I teach my English class for adults and teachers. The attendance varies anywhere between seven to ten students but these are the same students who have stuck with me since December. They're determined to keep learning English and as long as they have their determination to keep coming to class then I will continue my dedication to teaching them.
After my English class for teachers I have my English movie camp for my young students. I have to say that this has been one of my favorite classes to teach not just because we get to watch fun movies but because the students have become really receptive in picking up the English language through the lessons and activities that I've been teaching them. Every week we watch a movie for thirty minutes in class and I provide the students with a vocabulary list, sentence blocks from the movie that they have to read and put in order and then I also have them work on their artistic skills by drawing who their favorite character from the movie is and they have to explain why.
These are some of their drawings my students have done from Kung Fu Panda one and two.
These are some of my art students. Our art club is still going strong and we still meet every Sunday. On this particular day my students thought it would be a good idea to make angry birds out of balloons. I love it!
LOL!!! I told my students to draw a robot and one of my students drew an umbrella.
For week three a good friend of mine recommended that we watch Wall-e. Me and the kids loved it! It's a great movie that doesn't have a lot of dialogue and so there's a lot more focus on behavioral interaction. I had my students design and draw their own robots. This is what they came up with.
These are some of my art students who are looking at drawings and pictures on my computer. I like to bring them closer to the art world by exposing their young minds to different artists and their work.
These are my students from the movie camp. They're working on making their own journals.
I've said it once and I'll say it a million times over, I am so grateful for my counterpart, Vanny. Her and her family own a bookshop that has an outdoor classroom built in the back of the bookshop. Thanks to her I'm able to have my movie camp at her bookshop because her dad built a stand that has a t.v. hooked up to it. She has been so gracious to let us use this wonderful space.
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