Summer Session

We are two days into the "Summer Intensive Program" now.  Since the elementary students are on summer vacation for four weeks our school offers an extra morning session for the elementary students (just how every kid wants to spend their summer vacation right?).  So we have elementary and kindergarten students in the morning and then keep the usual schedule of elementary students in the afternoon.  Because of this our teaching schedule in the morning will look different for the next few weeks.  We have to be at work a little bit earlier than normal and start teaching our elementary classes right at 10:00.  I only have two students in my elementary class and Eric has five.  We alternate between our elementary class and our kindergarten class in forty minute blocks until lunch time.  It breaks up the morning more but I think I would rather spend the whole time with my kinders (especially since the other teacher is not having them do anything while I'm not there!!).  While one of the books that I use is a basic English language/grammar book, the other book I am using is a science book (intended specifically for ELL students).  It's kind of fun to teach something other than English for a few minutes!  Eric on the other hand has to teach from four books in two forty minute sessions.  This means his students are getting a lot of homework!  But he enjoys having the morning split up to make it go by faster.  We will take anything that helps make the week go by faster.  Only three more days of work and one day of packing before we get to celebrate our first anniversary a week early on the beaches of the Andaman Sea in Phuket, Thailand!!!