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Feb

Ivory Visits Newton Class

Newton class is a group of 6 year olds. I teach math and science to them. Over the last few months in science, we’ve been talking about the five senses. The unit finishes with the sense of touch. I mentioned as we were talking about soft and rough that my cat Ivory is very soft. The kids wanted me to bring Ivory in. I checked with their charge teacher and got her blessing. All last week was rainy so I didn’t want to talk Ivory out. But today was lovely. It helps that I live directly next door to the school. So on my break right before I taught Newton, I ran upstairs and brought Ivory down.

The kids were so excited. Even so, they behaved wonderfully. I was somewhat worried that they would be rough with Ivory, but they were very gentle. I held Ivory while they came up and stroked her. Tina, their charge teacher, was kind enough to take pictures.

Enjoy!

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Nov

What Is It?

This is from a couple years ago. It’s an activity that focuses on speaking, especially asking questions and basic vocabulary. The idea is to blindfold a student and then give them an object. Another student asks the first what he/she is holding. If the student can’t guess, the other students give clues. It’s a lot of fun.

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Oct

Songpyeon

In my post on Chuseok, I talked about songpyeon.

I was at Lotte Mart this afternoon doing my weekly grocery shopping. I was actually having a songpyeon craving. Does this mean I’ve been in Korea way too long for my own good? I don’t know.

So I bought a small package of them. The homemade ones (as provided by my students in the past) are better. But these were passible. There were white ones and green ones in the package. I’ve also eaten pink ones.

Songpyeon

The green ones had a very nutty filling. The white ones had a smoother, sweeter filling.

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Sep

Tepees!

My D3 Speaking and Writing class is currently reading “The Indian in the Cupboard”. It was one of my favorite books as a kid and I’m excited to be able to share it with a new generation of kids. In the spirit of the chapter we’re currently reading, I decided to have the class make tepees. Now, understand, I’m not an art teacher. Oye, I’m the furthest thing from an art teacher. In fact, I had to drop the one art class I was taking in high school because I was flunking it. Yes. Flunking it. I couldn’t draw a stupid tree. So when I undertake anything that has an art bent, well, it’s at my own personal peril.

I Googled around and found some (reasonably) easy looking instructions. Craft supplies here are a mite more difficult to find. I ended up using chopsticks for the supports and some interesting brown paper for the tent part. I also found some burlap like string.

Before actually making our tepees, I had the kids come up with four animals and what they represent. For example, an owl might represent knowledge. Those were the symbols they painted on their tepees. This whole project took us about 2.5 hours (6 of their 25 minute class periods). It took so long because they took their time painting their symbols and because, well, I’m an idiot. It took me that long to decipher the instructions and explain them to the kids.

All in all, I think they turned out really well. Enjoy the photos.

: Eric’s Tepee

: Sally’s Tepee

: Hera’s Tepee

: Eddie’s Tepee

: Flora’s Tepee

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Sep

Travel and Tourism Project

D1 is one of the highly advanced classes in the school. It’s made up of 5th and 6th graders. They’re a lot of fun to teach. I do language skills with them. For me, that consists of a day of grammar, a day of writing, a day of reading and a day of project type stuff.

The project we just finished was to design a travel and tourism poster for a country (real or fictional). The class decided to split themselves into a boys team and a girls team. They boys decided to do a poster for the fictional “Buzz Island”. The girls decided to do a poster for Korea. I created an outline for them to fill out and help with their research and writing. Once that was finished, they wrote a one page summary of their country. They also used the Internet to find images that represented facets of their chosen country. Well, the girls used the Internet. Because Buzz Island is fictional, they had to create all of their stuff by hand.

Their country descriptions follow:

Buzz Island

Buzz Island is located under the Korean Peninsula. It doesn’t have a climate. It consists of water. Its area is bigger than China. One of its natural resources is hydrogen. The population is only 5 people, and they speak Korean. They believe in Christianity. Its industries are semiconductors, cars, ships and plastics. Buzz Island’s capital city is Buzz D.C. The currency is the Buz. Their national food is butter. People typically wear western clothes. One notable tradition is the festival of Buzz’s birthday. Major cities on Buzz Island are Buzz D.C., Buzzton, New Buzz, Buzzfort and Buzz Angeles. Some interesting places to visit are Buzz Street, Buzz Junior Island, The Yellow House and Buzz Vat.

Korea

Korea is located in Asia. It has four seasons, spring, summer, fall and winter. Spring is warm, summer is hot, fall is cool, and winter is cold. There are mountains and flat plains. It has an area of 99,900 square km. The population of Korea is 48,456,4721 people. They speak Korean and the study of English is popular. Korea’s religions are Christianity and Buddhism.

Our famous products are cars, plastics and semi-conductors. Our government is a democracy. The leader is Lee Myung Bak. Our capital city is Seoul. The currency is the won.

Our traditional foods are kim-chi, rice cakes and danganchigae. Day to day, people wear western clothes. The name of Korea’s traditional clothing is han-bok. Traditional holidays are New Year’s Day and Chu-seok. Major cities in Korea are Busan, Seoul, Ulsan and Kyengju. Busan is famous for Hae-Un-Dae Beach and Seoul is famous for Kyeung-Bok Palace. Kyeungus is famous for Bul-Gook-Sa and Ulsan is famous for Ban-Gu-Dae, which has many fossils.

~Come visit our country!~

Here are some pictures:

Buzz Island Poster

Nick, Buzz, David, Tommy, Arthur, Jay

Korea Poster

Rachel, Amy, Sarah

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Aug

Goodbye and Good Luck

I just want to say goodbye and good luck to Jon and Noreen. They’ve finished their year at Little Campus. They’re back to the UK for a while. They are thinking of coming back to teach at a public school. No matter what they do decide to do, I’m thankful for the opportunity to get to know them.

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Jul

Kitties!!!!!!!!!

It’s been a while since I updated y’all about Ivory. Well, she has a little sister now. Gidgette is your standard domestic shorthair with tabby markings. She weighed 380 grams (.84 pounds) when I first got her, and she’s up to 755 grams (1.7 pounds) three weeks later.

Ivory is a very good Mamma cat. She makes sure to give Gidgette a bath. Not that Gidgettte really appreciates it.

From the way Gidgette eats, you’d think I never feed her. And boy does that girl poop….