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"As you walk to the boundary of your understanding into the twilight of uncertainty, exercising faith, you will be led to find solutions you would not obtain otherwise. With even your strongest faith, God will not always reward you immediately according to your desires. Rather, God will respond with what in His eternal plan is best for you, when it will yield the greatest advantage. Be thankful that sometimes God lets you struggle for a long time before that answer comes. That causes your faith to increase and your character to grow."

Richard G. Scott, The Transforming Power of Faith and Characte

6-27 I went to the school in the morning and in the afternoon and taught English to 4^th graders. The first classroom had a ton of kids and the second room had 15. I thought the second classroom recalled more information, but I don’t know. We used pictures that described an action and said what are you doing… what is she… doing… what is he doing… etc. Another activity was to act out a verb and say what am I doing. Another activity was to tape up the pictures and have volunteers come to the board to write what the picture is doing. Another one was doing a multiple choice option on the board. Another was separating them by ‘is’ and ‘are’. They had difficulty saying “she” and said che… and the difference between writing and riding. We split them up into three groups and asked each one what are you doing. This is when their comprehension was apparent… because sometimes they didn’t know but that could have also been nerves. Asking them to show me an action was also good. Or calling them out of the group to answer a question. They all sang the red is rojo song to what does singing mean. In the middle of the lesson I remembered that just because they don’t know English doesn’t mean they have no idea what I am talking about. I know silly, but it helped bc then we asked them what does it mean in Spanish and they got excited and more answered in English. At the end they asked what certain words meant. I want to make a yearly curriculum for English learning with activities. I think that would help. I don’t necessarily know what they do with their English knowledge or if they retain it… but I think that’s also with other school subjects… where you know it for a little… but it doesn’t necessarily help you in the long run… but the learning part is what helps in the long run. So because they are required to take English the school wants us to help with pronunciation and correctness because the English teachers don’t always know what things are/pronounce them differently. I want to look into though why English is part of the required curriculum.