Teaching 5th Grade in College

We were woken up to ear blasting, annoying, painful noise... the alarm. It was the beginning of another week of teaching college students 5th grade things. Rebecca, the teacher that picked us up, came knocking on Montana and LuRues door at 5:25 am wondering where we were. I guess 5 minutes early is really 5 minutes late in China. Because of a traffic jam, we were a few minutes late to our class and the students were already waiting for us in the room. 

We are starting to get into a routine. For both classes, we did introductions, pronunciations, homonyms, Simon says, sentences, drawing game, and the Hokey Pokey. For the first class, we split up the pronunciations into three parts, one in the beginning, one right before the break, and one right after the break. However, we changed it back to normal for the next class, because we decided it just wasted time. Today, each person on the winning team got a lollipop. That seemed to get the students a little more into it. Most people were involved, but still there were those one or two students on their phones. 

During lunch, we discussed the activities Don and we did. Baoli also gave us a lesson on names in China. It seems like family is extremely important in China. After lunch, Montana and LuRue worked on changing a few things. We added more sentences to the homonyms and put the drawing game first instead of last, so we'll see how that works out tomorrow. Other than that, we didn't do much until 6, when we met Don and Baoli downstairs for dinner. 

Baoli took us out to a restaurant in the supermarket nearby. We were served dishes of sweet potato, chicken, pork, tofu, a broccoli stir-fry and some sweet rice to top it off. We all went to an electronic shop nearby on the hunt for a flash drive. Then Don and Baoli went back to the hotel. We stopped by a supermarket to get more treats for the winners tomorrow before going back to the hotel to finish up some preparations then go to bed.