Cranky Day

Today is a long day for me. I slept very late last night about 1.30 am. George and I was talking with P'Cherry at the center and because our time different and Cherry went to work late so we had to sleep late :(
And sadly that I have to wake up early :( I work up around 7 am. It is hard for me to sleep less.
I was really up set and not in the mood to work at all.

We went to Valders kidergarten to observed the class so we can adjust to our class in Thailand.
Our class and American Class is exactly the same. We teach the same way as they do.
Teachers assign the proper work for each students. The class is a small class size. It's about 20 kids in a room.
There's many stations in the classroom. First 15 minutes, Teacher told the kids to do things differently. 5 kids studied phonics with the teacher, 5 kids read a book separately and  4 kids may drawing things they like, 1 boy listening the story with CD player and book by himself.

Every kids has things to do and then they changed the stations or get together in the middle.
Kids missed difference skills so they can't just study same things. Some might need to practice something else so they can catch up with other kids. Kids can't study the way an adult does. They learn by playing. 

So It's a great thing that we took a video of their class so we can show to the parents who have a hard time of understanding what we do to see and hope that they will understand the way we teach. 

There's a room that the kids can play role to be a doctor and it's so cute when the kids say and do the exactly what they see from the hospital. 

Teacher read the story and asked the kids to compare 2 stories so it there's any kids have a problem, teacher would know it and they will fix it by kids personal assignment. That's cool! 

You will see the kids wrote almost every word wrong but they can write! 

Thai kids wouldn't be able to write the sentence by themselves because Thai education doesn't teach the kids to know the sound of the letters and teach them how to mix it together. I saw some Thai kids at kindergarten levels can wrote but only some words like.. Father, Mother etc.. to make parent happy but they had no idea why that words read like that, write like that. And if you told them to write the different words, sentence. They couldn't do it. They don't really understand what they're doing but they're memorize.

Here, kids don't have to know the right word by this time but they're be able to write the word by the sound that they talk everyday.  If you look at the picture, you will see that they wrote from understanding. That's cool! 

I was so tired and sleepy. We went back home to had lunch and then came back to school again to observe their reading class. Every classrooms have a reading corner and they have reading hours that kids will read or try to read both by themselves and couple then they will compare the story together. That's cool!

After we finished all of work, we came home had some snack and I took a nap for 2 hours.
It made me feel better. I was so cranky when I was sleepy and George knows that I really need a nap.

I cook rice soup with bread for dinner. I put a lot of garlic because I like it but some kids don't like it so it's their problem hahahaha.

Tomorrow, we have a meeting with the school again. They will give us the information as much as they can give.

I start to pack my stuffs. Tomorrow night we will fly to Boston. I showed the kids my scrapbooking and explained them about Hobby Lobby. They love it! So tomorrow we will take them to Hobby Lobby my favorite place. It's awesome. There're everything about hobby. I wish Thailand would has a place like that.