Teaching and my students

This is the teacher's office, where I spend much of my time while at school. We (teachers) come into the teachers office to chill out between classes, to make copies, to find handouts on the internet and to prep for class. The two other teachers in the picture are Layla (in front) and Ronnie (in back). The school is so cute because each room has a completely dominant color. There is pink, purple, blue (the kids lunch room), yellow, and green (the teachers lunch room). I love it, you walk into a room and you feel like you are in a cloud of that pastel color. And in the afternoon when we close the blinds (which are of course the right color) the room glows in the color. The other rooms are the kids playroom, the teachers office, and the library/ meeting room for new parents. That's it... it is a very small school that only takes up half of one floor of an office building. My first day of teaching it was phonics day, wednesday and thursday are phonics days. and so I got all the books I would need and headed off to class. My first class was awesome. We went through several pages in their workbook with them. My second class was awesome too. They are little ones, 7 and 8, so they were learning less advanced stuff, it was so much fun. But some of the kids in the classes are at different levels, so it is difficult to see those kids struggle with a lesson on phonics, when they barely know their alphabet. The last class was not so much fun, they are in a book that is WAY too advanced for them, but the school won't let them switch books, in fact, they have to finish this book by the end of the month!!! So it is really difficult to push them along through this book, reading them the sentences they are supposed to be able to read themselves, and giving them the answers when they stare at me for long enough with completely blank looks on their faces. That one is HARD. Then my last class on that day was a one on one lesson with boy named charlie who is super quick. I must have finished 12 pages with him. I don't know why he is in the book he is in! It's too easy for him. And that finished out my first day. It was wonderful to be up in front of a class and teaching them about consonent digraphs and vowel digraphs. We played a game where I would point to a letter real quick and they would have to tell me the sound the letter makes. Then I would switch or try to get them to make a mistake by pointing to the same letter twice or switching real fast or whatever, it was fun!! Then yesterday was the same idea, but with an entirely new set of students. I have one set on monday wednesday friday and another set on tuesday thursday friday. (I know I have friday twice, we see all the students for half classes on fridays.) Anyway, I gotta go get ready for school.