Santa Cruz Christian Learning Center

So this week was the first full week of class. Is that already too soon to want to pull my hair out? No seriously all in all it went really well. It took some arranging to get kids in the right classes so they are at least a little bit close to the same level. I did have to adjust to having 5th and 6th graders. One of the first days I simply gave them an activity from the book to work on and I watched and some starting writing but they weren’t looking at their book and others looked at their books but didn’t write and another looked like she wanted to cry. I realized that you have to explain things more at that level then you do with sophomores in High School. But I have adjusted and now we go over instructions very thoroughly.

This week we had a lot of meetings to attend to get school off and running. Monday I had a staff meeting, Tuesday there was a prayer meeting for staff in the morning and then a parent’s meeting at night. Wednesday we have a meeting for WGM so by Thursday I was about meetinged out.

Fridays I’m going to be helping in the Library on my free period and the 3rd graders come in at the same time every week. Today I read them a story about a dog who ate alphabet soup and then can talk. So after the story I asked what would you do if you saw a dog that could talk? The answers I got were hilarious and it was difficult to not laugh. One student said “Kick the dog hard” another said “Steal the dog” one girl said “I would die” The best was a Bolivian boy said “ I would set up a stand to see the dog and charge people and I would be rich!” This from a 3rd grader--I had to laugh.