I (Laura) am assigned to work with the school in our communty (pictured here), which runs from kindergarten to ninth grade. It has about 250 students, most of whom are in the lower grades - the dropout rate is abysmally high. The teachers are great and have already asked me to teach a lot of English, which I have started doing. I enjoy it, even if it is completely impossible to keep any sort of order in the classroom. I am sometimes tempted to get a whistle and a large stick. But the kids are great. Can you picture me singing "Head shoulders knees and toes" with a class of third graders to teach them body parts in English? I can't picture this either but I did it. Just my luck, they loved it and always want me to sing it with them. Don't tell anyone please.
The previous volunteer sold me his guitar, so I'm going to try to incorporate this into lessons. Unfortunately, the only song I know is "House of the Rising Sun", which I sung for the kids in my family, and they all want to hear it over and over too. They would probably kick me out of town in they understood the words.
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