Happy February! (as it is almost half over already, oops!)

I cannot believe it is February. I mean, I guess I can believe it because it is true (unless the whole world has conspired against me, which is highly unlikely)….

Anywho, after our Blantyre adventures, Kayla and I decided to stick close to home for a while and just focus on getting the kids ready for their mid-term exams. It was so nice to only prepare an English exam instead of English, Life Skills and Bible Knowledge. I also felt good about all the material I was able to include on the exam. At first, I didn’t think I had really taught enough new things in this second term to actually test them on, but once I wrote down what I had taught, I realized there was a lot that I could include on my test. I had the most fun coming up with this exam, probably because I finally felt like I knew what the teachers expected us to include on the exams and I had a better understanding of the level of understanding that my students had.

I also was glad to not just do revision with them during the week before the exams. Last term, we were told to spend a whole week on revision, which Kayla and I felt was such a waste because we had only been teaching them for about four weeks – not really enough time to do revision for a whole week! This time, though, I went ahead and started a new unit, not introducing too many new topics, just reading a new story and incorporating some practice for different sections of their test. I am hoping that the work I did with them during that week was enough to help them feel prepared and know exactly what they needed to study for the exam.