Monday, February 15

I assigned a science project for this week; the kids are to make a diorama of one of the animals we talked about in our last science unit, which was on the sea. I assigned them their animal, for which there was information in their book to look at. They need to make a written report of their animal and then make a diorama of their animal in its habitat with its predators and prey. The kids are really excited to have a project to do, but it’s been interesting to see how they go about obtaining their information and research for their animal. Some kids look up stuff on the internet, while some kids just copy everything down from the book. I’ve had to teach them that they need to find only the important information they need to answer the questions I asked them. I don’t think there’s been consistency in the way the kids have been taught, so they don’t know some skills their counterparts in the US know by now; for example, how to do a research project, how to do a simple bibliography, etc. Some of my kids have also been using their reading vocab they’ve learned during school. For example, they weren’t listening very well one day so Estela pipes up and says they were being impertinent (having rude behavior; they’ve also used their vocabulary word absurd (ridiculous) as well. It makes me proud. Unfortunately for me, the time is getting closer to decision time for next year. I need to basically let them know if I'm staying by February 23 because they are going to the States then to recruit for next year. I’m still not sure what to do, so if any of you who read this can be in prayer for me about that, I would appreciate it. I know that if I stay, I want to know that God wants me here for another year; otherwise I may motivation or focus when I need it most.