Tuesday, November 17

My kids were a little more rambunctious today, so I had my patience tried a few times. Sometimes I don’t know whether yelling louder and louder to have my voice heard is better, or whether I speak normal and see who’s listening haha. My reward system of getting stars for good behavior bore fruit today, so my kids got choose their pencils or erasers for 10 stars or wait til 20 stars for a bigger prize. I had tutorias after school today for math and science. Tutorias is a great idea, but it would be a better idea if there were more people to help us out after school. I have about 5-10 kids every Tuesday and Thursday; so today it was hard for me to help the ones who need math and study with the ones who need help in science. Thankfully Laura Beth didn’t have kids so she helped me with the science kids. Also the kids who are in tutorias are the ones who are the ones who have a hard time paying attention in class so all of those kids together is almost as frustrating as my whole class! Hopefully I can figure out how to do it better as the year goes on because I really do want these kids to understand and have their grades be better as well. Normal night after tutorias of dinner, grading, relaxing…oh and I killed a scorpion.