Pretty good, going out to the park was a nice mini field trip.

Went out to pick up leafs at the park. We saw ducks and geese. Learned facts about turkeys Taped the leafs on to a paper as the feathers, glued paper body part, painted our own face and legs, snood and wattle. Painted our own hand and stamped it on to the paper and painted our own face and legs

Pretty good! The going out to the park was actually a fun field trip.

2 types of Turkey We went out to the park to pick up some leafs and we saw geese and ducks! We learned abt which ones are the boy and the girl. And more facts about turkeys. We taped the leafs on the paper, glued the paper body parts and painted our own face and legs and snood and wattle. Painted our hands, stamped it on to the paper, and painted face and legs.

Shouldn’t have brought my own artist’s markers, since it was hard to clean off the tables. I learned to stick with the crayons and kid’s washable markers, but they loved the amount of colors they could use. And today, since 1 more kid broke a terrarium while we sat on the table, I made everyone move to the floor. And it worked well. I wish I could find terrariums made of plastic.

Drew a dream fairy garden on paper with colored markers. Connected the daisy knot we’ve made last class with the painted terrarium with another string. Origami at the end.

It went smoothly and the time felt just right.

We learned about snakes, and made our own 3D paper snakes that we can take for a walk

Teacher assistant at this school is so helpful with helping me with cleaning up after the kids. One of them broke the terrarium even though I’m constantly telling them to be careful, but she cleaned it up so fast for me as well as spilt water and paint. I really appreciate them, if not, he class would’ve been so much more hectic with so many students.

Learned about primary, secondary and tertiary colors, and how to make them. Painted the terrarium

I think I leaned to give out materials as they go, and time to use compared to giving all the materials in the beginning, and that felt easier.

Learned how to braid, daisy knot chain, cobra knot, and beading

We had the best 1 min and 30 seconds meditation today because they wanted to watch a samurai story video.

Meditation, Samurai story, 1 v 1, 2v2, 3v3 fight

I adjusted by taking half of the material away within the first 5 min of teaching. So that adjustment worked better than if I was to continue teaching every kids at the same time. Because I heard “l need help!” From so many directions.

Students learned how how to knot chain sinnet / daisy knot chain. They put colored bead while knotting, and put a little suncatcher with 2 holes at the end, only using 1 hole this time since we’ll be learning another type of knot on the other side next. I figured it was so hard teaching so many little kids new things to teach, so I ended up partnering up everyone to work on 1 per 2 kids. (Half the class to be a helper) It worked so much better. I just had to tell one of a sad helper kid that he will get to make one next.

Smooth and nice. - No complaints about noise or scared kids.

Meditate, count to 12 in Japanese as we swing the sword noodle, practice offense / defense. Separate into 2 groups for the fight.

Teaching how to shout “kiai” was a bit chaotic since they started screaming in high pitch until I showed them how people shout in a very low pitch in a video. You’re supposed to shout from stomach, to focus the energy and to show your power.

Meditation, stretch, watched kid’s kendo practice video and Kiai video. We started incorporating “kiai”, a shout before we strike “men”, “kote” and “do” with a partner. Today was the first day we practiced that, and they were doing too good at what sounds like a yelling “YAAAA!!” So the next door teacher came in, and told me that she’s trying to teach her class, asked me if I usually teach at the same time. So, we did a quiet Kiai after that.