Week 4

Week 4 is done and over. What did we do this week? We learned about our NOSE!! We talked about how you use your nose to smell and that how things smell effect your taste buds! Overall the kids loved it. We colored pictures of our noses, smelt all sort of things to smell and pasted magazine pictures on paper of things that the kids thought would smell good and bad. It was pretty funny to see what the kids thought of certain things. The boys typically thought that flowers smelt bad, while dirty tennis shoes smelt good where the girl’s were the complete opposite. I guess that shouldn’t really surprise anyone though. I thought that since we would be talking about noses that their would be an increase in the amount of “gold digging” among the kids, but I don’t think they even made that connection! Thank goodness!

My little boys started building guns out of legos this week. Now at home when I teach pre-school I let the kids build guns as long as the only shoot “monsters” and that they don’t shoot there friends. However, I don’t let these boys build guns, or at least I try to stop them because it’s just different here. For starters the first time I saw a little boy with a lego gun he had it held to another little boys head and he was yelling “POW POW POW”. That was when I drew the line and made the rule NO GUNS ALLOWED!! Because in all reality these little kids live in a township of 6,000 people with about 6 different gangs within the township. Gangs that run around and really shot people. So when these little boys are holding lego guns to other little boys heads they are just acting out what they see in real life. So I think I decided I was going to make it my mission to ban guns from the classroom, however I quickly learned that me trying to take the guns away or saying “No guns! No guns!” only results in them laughing at me and then having more kids build guns just to come up to me and say “Look Teachar! Guns!”. Haha dang 2 year olds. But I will not give up!

On Friday when I arrived at the school I found teachers laying down blankets in the main hallway which only means one thing… Assembly! I got pretty excited because our last assembly on Valentines day was such a hoot! I loved it. But on Friday it was for Devotion. I wasn’t really sure how it was gonna go down, but basically they packed all the kid into the hallway and then sang all sorts of Love Jesus songs and then they prayed! Cutest thing in the world. I won’t lie I teared up a bit, because even though these kids have practically nothing they are still soooooo happy and thankful for all that they have!

 This is Brenda above. She's white and she loves me because we have matching hair :-)

 This is just the most perfect video of the guns situation :-)