Thailandia. : สามโรงเรียนอนุบาล- Kindergarten 3

My class that I teach is the K3 class: The oldest and most advanced. The kids are either five or six and already learning how to read in their second language of English. These kids are incredibly intelligent! Some can even do multiplication! I teach them English for two rotations and then after their milk break I teach reading to the same group of students in two separate rotations. There are twelve children total so my classes never exceed six children at once... SUCH a blessing.

Thai school is very different than schools in America. They have very strict rules where physical violence such as hitting can be a common punishment in the average classes of fifty or more students. Mistakes are not permitted of any sort. Tang said, that in her opinion, that is the biggest flaw in Thai education: Children are not allowed to make mistakes so they are too afraid to try at all. But in our school, Imperial Bilingual School of Phichit, there is nothing of the sort. The kids get not only get one-on-one attention and help but get to play and make as many mistakes as it takes for them to understand. We also have shower breaks! The children here in Thailand get so hot during the day that all of the young children here take a shower and change their clothes everyday. It is SO cute seeing them lined up in their towels walking to the bathroom.

We see Thai students from public schools all over town. Here are some shots that we have of them.

These are girls who we think were in town for a sporting event,

they laughed and giggled so much at us that we decided to get a picture.

Here were some school girls inside a mall in a town about 40 minutes

from Phichit. They were playing DDR and I thought it was so cute!

Don't worry.. I'm fully aware that they thought I was a creep.

Typical Thai uniform. They aren't allowed to have hair past their ears

and their skirt have to be past their knees.

This is a very common site here in Thailand.

WELL. Today my classes were American soldiers. My boys LOVE anything with the word "army" in it (or anything with guns) so I thought it would be a good activity. We started out with just "sweatbands" (That turned into literal sweatbands) and then once they were done with "training" they received an American badge (American flag sticker). We did everything from wall sits to arm wrestling and they loved it! Here are some shots of them posing for the camera after they received their stickers and after we practiced getting called to attention and saluting, they are the cutest!