School's out for summer! (Thank god.) Not that I don't love my students, but I think I would have gone crazy if the school year had lasted much longer. I have a nice month off before we start summer school, so I'm enjoying the time to recharge.
All in all, it was a pretty successful year. I learned a lot! I learned that I am horrible at classroom management (but I definitely improved throughout the year!). I learned that 6th graders love to play hangman. I learned that you sweat a lot in a muumuu in a hot classroom. I learned that 8th graders can range from 13 years old to 19 years old. I learned that if a student takes out a knife during class, it just means they're going to sharpen their pencil (clearly an assumption that wouldn't apply in the American classroom...)
I took photos of my classes on the last day of school. (Try to spot the men wai!)
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| 6th Grade Group A |
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| 6th Grade Group B |
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| 7th Grade (Can you tell which ones are the trouble makers? |
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| 8th Grade Group A |
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| 8th Grade Group B |
We celebrated 8th grade graduation at the end of May. Many students don't complete high school, so an elementary school "diploma" is a pretty big deal here. We celebrated, in typical Pohnpeian fashion,
with lots of food, mwarmwars/leis, and singing.
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| Buried under their mwarmwars |
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Our valedictorian wrote her own speech - in English! I was
so proud :) |
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