What is this... two posts in two days?!? Someone must have a lot of time on her hands... actually, I had a couple of really cool experiences today at work (aside from the fact that this morning Mr. Salim, the principal, announced that the kids would be going home at noon today).
I was sitting in my room attempting to do eSIS and talking to my co-worker, Rimi, when one of my kids came in the room. He popped his head in, I said hi, and he ran out... haha. A few minutes later, this boy's mom comes in the room to explain why Saif had missed the last week of school. Poor thing was in the hospital all week.
Anyway, this mom proceeded to tell me that her son loved me a lot and was excited to come to school. I was so touched. This kid is precious--he is so interested in the world around him and really enjoys learning. He's always smiling and you can't help but smile back at him. She went on to tell me that Saif loved me so much that he didn't want her to take the doctor's note and the money for his Kumon books to his Arabic teacher... he wanted his mom to come see Ms. Krista. My heart just about melted. I think I just may have a favorite now :)
Another really cool story about my awesome 1B boys: Earlier this morning, we were doing picture cards for vocabulary development and I showed the boys a picture of the UAE flag. I asked them if this was my flag and they said no. Saif then asked me what my flag looked like... so I showed the class the US flag. They told me the colors on the flag and I explained to them that there were 50 stars on the flag. One of the boys said, "why Ms?" so then I had to show them the United States map. I showed them Texas and asked if Texas was big or small. With big eyes, the boys said, "Ms.... biiiiiiig." haha... then of course they saw part of Canada and they ran up to the board and said, "Ms.... this is BIG!" And that was that for the US.
Saif was so fascinated in the map at that point so he asked, "Ms. where is the UAE?" I pulled up a world map and they got a big kick out of how far away my home was. Especially when I drew the trajectory the plane takes when I come and go back to the states. They thought that was the best thing. I showed them where London was (one of the boys will be going there for the winter break).
It was the coolest thing seeing the kids actually excited about the map and where I am from. I shared all of this information with them when we first started school but they didn't really care too much about it then (most likely because I was some strange lady speaking a language they didn't have a clue about).
I'll end this post with a funny short story... while doing our vocabulary cards we came across the picture of a nose. The boys told me the name of it in English and I asked them what we do with our nose. None of them answered so I asked them if we eat with our nose. They all laughed and said "YES!" I told them they were silly boys and that I would bring them food for them to eat with their nose because I would like to see that. Of course, I went on and asked them if we walked on our nose... they laughed again and said, "YES! YES!" I called them weird boys and said I'd like to see that too. We went on and on as I asked if we write with our nose, if we see with our nose, etc... they all laughed and said "YES!" every single time. It was good fun. I'm still waiting for them to show me how they can walk on their nose!
I was sitting in my room attempting to do eSIS and talking to my co-worker, Rimi, when one of my kids came in the room. He popped his head in, I said hi, and he ran out... haha. A few minutes later, this boy's mom comes in the room to explain why Saif had missed the last week of school. Poor thing was in the hospital all week.
Anyway, this mom proceeded to tell me that her son loved me a lot and was excited to come to school. I was so touched. This kid is precious--he is so interested in the world around him and really enjoys learning. He's always smiling and you can't help but smile back at him. She went on to tell me that Saif loved me so much that he didn't want her to take the doctor's note and the money for his Kumon books to his Arabic teacher... he wanted his mom to come see Ms. Krista. My heart just about melted. I think I just may have a favorite now :)
Another really cool story about my awesome 1B boys: Earlier this morning, we were doing picture cards for vocabulary development and I showed the boys a picture of the UAE flag. I asked them if this was my flag and they said no. Saif then asked me what my flag looked like... so I showed the class the US flag. They told me the colors on the flag and I explained to them that there were 50 stars on the flag. One of the boys said, "why Ms?" so then I had to show them the United States map. I showed them Texas and asked if Texas was big or small. With big eyes, the boys said, "Ms.... biiiiiiig." haha... then of course they saw part of Canada and they ran up to the board and said, "Ms.... this is BIG!" And that was that for the US.
Saif was so fascinated in the map at that point so he asked, "Ms. where is the UAE?" I pulled up a world map and they got a big kick out of how far away my home was. Especially when I drew the trajectory the plane takes when I come and go back to the states. They thought that was the best thing. I showed them where London was (one of the boys will be going there for the winter break).
It was the coolest thing seeing the kids actually excited about the map and where I am from. I shared all of this information with them when we first started school but they didn't really care too much about it then (most likely because I was some strange lady speaking a language they didn't have a clue about).
I'll end this post with a funny short story... while doing our vocabulary cards we came across the picture of a nose. The boys told me the name of it in English and I asked them what we do with our nose. None of them answered so I asked them if we eat with our nose. They all laughed and said "YES!" I told them they were silly boys and that I would bring them food for them to eat with their nose because I would like to see that. Of course, I went on and asked them if we walked on our nose... they laughed again and said, "YES! YES!" I called them weird boys and said I'd like to see that too. We went on and on as I asked if we write with our nose, if we see with our nose, etc... they all laughed and said "YES!" every single time. It was good fun. I'm still waiting for them to show me how they can walk on their nose!
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