Dinosaur, dinosaur

I think it's high time for an update on the hellions...

The hellions have actually been calming down somewhat in the past few weeks. We've moved from Korean gibberish mixed with baby talk to Korean gibberish mixed with baby talk mixed with various key English words and phrases. They have learned to understand basic commands and questions and this has led me to realize that they are really quite cheeky little bastards. Pretty much any time they are tired of the lesson, one of them will suddenly start chanting "Close your books, close your books" and then they all sing the clean up song and whisk things away when I'm not looking.

I have actually grown much fonder of them and this is perhaps mostly due to the fact that they're really excited about walking places since I started a new walking regime. Teachers are supposed to have the students line up with their hands on their hips and then chant "walking, walking" while walking in a straight line to the bathroom or water dispenser. However, I have grown very tired of this, so now the hellions and I do themed walking. The absolute favorite is dinosaur walk where we all hunker down, pull out our claws and stalk from room to room, growling fiercely as we go. It's amazing. Instead of walking, I can now hunch over and prowl while muttering "rawr, rawr" with three little Korean dinosaur boys following my every move.

I'm also really excited about the current unit that the hellions are on in their dialog book (as opposed to phonics). We are learning about pets and this now allows me to cut off the bookwork and just have the children act out being the animals. Last Friday, I got tired of pointing to animals and having the kids repeat "This is a dog, This is a dog" and I simply got down on all fours and had them crawl around, barking and howling (btw, in Korea dogs say mong, mong, not woof, woof) and chanting "Dog, dog, dog" (refraining from any food comments here). We will do this now every time they learn about animals, which will happen when we get to farm and zoo animals later on in the book. It's pretty hilarious.

Time to go- I'm seeing said children in less than eight house and I've got to get some sleep. One of these days I'll stop falling asleep with my fingers poised over the keyboard. Cheers!