Let The Fun Begin!

School began on Tuesday, February 2. I (Brad) am teaching P.E. and an elective. I have three secondary classes (Grades 8, 9, & 10 are together; Grades 11 & 12 are together; Grades 6 & 7 are together). I have Laurel and Aubrey in my P.E. class that meets at 8:00 a.m. That is way too early for 8th & 9th graders let alone me. I have three elementary classes. I taught those today. I have 20 Pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten, & First Graders. Three of which have English as their primary spoken language. There are 15 Koreans and a Russian. I am so glad that balloons speak the international language of FUN! There are 16 2nd & 3rd graders and 18 4th & 5th graders. Amazing how you can teach hand/eye coordination with some balloons, a ping pong paddle and a badminton racket. (Also amazing that no one lost an eye).
The Elective that I am teaching is called "Strategies for Life". I will be teaching about learning styles, personalities, leadership, etiquette, how choices that we make affect us on many different levels. I will let you know how that goes once I teach it and write it. It is one of those things that I will make up as I go along. It should be fun. We will watch some movies and listen to music.

I introduced the students to Brad games on Tuesday. Marilyn and I had the students for about 2 hours while the electives classes were being filled. For those of you that are familiar with Brad games, we played a couple of the standards. I will not bore you with all the details, but suffice it to say that the students have played the chair swap game where you call out a color and they have to swap chairs. No one was seriously injured, that I know of.

We get to the school at 7:30 a.m. each day. We have been taking a taxi each morning. We want to start walking to school once it is warmer on a more consistent basis. It only takes about 20 minutes to walk to the school.

Next Blog... I have to tell you about the Girls and I being "Golden on Bus 51". It will be a he said (me) she said (Laurel). Until next time....fyi...11 days until pitchers and catcher report for Spring Training!

~ Brad