Group 2
Sometime during the week, I bought stickers for them. But worrying that it might not work, and they'd find it too childish for their 10-13 years, I didn't tempt them at the start of the class.
At the end of the class I gave it out, and they were ecstatic about it, crowding all around me asking for Spiderman, Batman, princesses, and cars. They were really crazy about it, and they left the class with heaps of thanks. Some of them couldn't even wait to get home, and were sticking the stickers on their bags and books.
Seeing them so excited about something so simple, it inspired me to invest more in them, buying them books and stationery, little things I could easily afford.
Group 3
My secret weapon for this group was just exercises. Last week, having spent over an hour in mph going through differing levels of English books, I bought a few. Photocopying some of the exercises, I got this education-hungry lot very engaged in their work.
They had a lot of questions though. Simple words like factory, zoo and insects were challenging for them. Generally the boys are very smart, two of the tallest boys are really bright kids, and they help me a lot in explaining some of these words to the other students. Words like desert, were difficult for me to explain, but once these smart ones got it, they passed on the knowledge in Somali to the others and it really helps.
The bulk of them follow on very well and could answer most of the questions in the exercises. But there's about 3 of them who struggle with every single question.Truth is, I am very tempted to leave them behind, but I take the time to go through it with them. I don't want to eventually have to deal with an even bigger gap in their levels, and if they could catch up, it would make me a very happy teacher.
I reckon one day I'll channel part of my tithes into buying each of them a dictionary.
I'm really loving these kids. I just wish I could make more time to prepare their lessons.
Now, I'm all excited for my next class!
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