A Day of Dr. Seuss

Today, for Standard 4 and 5, we changed the lesson plan up a bit. We did start with our grammar chants, like usual, but this time we did part two of "One Fish, Two Fish", which was:

Why are they sad and glad and bad? 

I don't know. Go ask your dad. 

Some are thin and some are fat. 

The fat one has a yellow hat. 

From there to here, from here to there.

Funny things are everywhere.

After the poem, we did some charades and then a new song. This song was called "The Penguin Song". Here is a recording of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He5Xu11HBkM.

That URL is not a recording of us singing it, so don't get too excited. 

After the kids were pros at our new song, we did some more Simon Says. They seem to love that game. Even when we are not playing the game and we need to get their attention, we can say, "Simon says, 'Be quiet'", and they listen. Then, we did reading from a Dr. Seuss book called "Teeth". This didn't work as well. They liked looking at the pictures, but unlike the textbook stories, they couldn't follow along, so when the book wasn't where they could look, they would easily get distracted. Finally, the day at Christ King was finished with showing them what they will be doing for their next video. The Standard 4 students understood it well, but not so much the Standard 5, but we will see how it goes. 

We got picked up at around 12:30 and came back to another Spicy Indian lunch. After a month in India, "hot" in America will seem like "mild". A little bit after lunch, Montana taught the other volunteers "The Penguin Song". They caught on very well and hopefully, the SEAM's kids will too and will also like it when we teach it to them. The rest of the afternoon was spent writing journals, planning, practicing, and showering. 

Once again, the group met up at 5 to go to SEAM's. We were going to start with singing songs and dancing, but there was a surprise event. A baby girl from a neighboring family was having her first birthday; it is good luck for the child if the family does something helpful on the birthday. So the family brought cake and candy to the children (and to us, too!)

After that, we sang a few songs before doing crafts and tutoring. Marcia, Greg, and Jeff went up to the library to help kids with reading. Montana and LuRue stayed with the older girls to do more earrings. Swathi volunteered to draw a henna tattoo on Montana's left hand and arm. It turns out that Montana wasn't able to use her left hand for at least two hours after that. Montana said that it felt like her hand was getting old and wrinkly, but that it smelled very nice.

We came home to an American-style dinner--pizza from Pizza Hut. It was a very nice way to end the day.