The Testimony

by Jean

1. The Lord helped me set up an Internet activity check off booklet, using parts of an Internet booklet I made a couple of years ago, plus adding new parts.

2. The teachers and schedule managers gave me three computer classes each week with each of my classes, and worked it out so a Thai teacher could supervise in the computer lab each of the times, except the one where another English teacher could come in.

3. The Thai teachers have understood how the booklet works and done well in supervising those classes while I took groups out for reading. This gave me three reading classes a week, so I am able to get to all the reading groups. The students were even able to entertain themselves on the computers one day even though the Internet wasn't working. Also, when the principal wanted me to go with the group going along with the children's choir, the Thai teachers were still able to have the computer classes those days.

4. The Thai teachers and I are coordinating better now.

5. The ten classes a week gave me time to have the students practice their Christmas play performances and to make some Christmas crafts.

6. The other part of the 10 classes is supposed to be for giving the students some English vocabulary for what they are studying in Math and Science. The 4th graders are studying the Solar System, and I still have a book and copies of activities to go along with that, which a team made and left here two years ago. The science teachers have helped me in finding out what the students are studying in 5th and 6th grade. The Lord helped me to get just enough activities in Math and Science ready to make it to the time for Christmas worksheets and activities.

7. The Lord helped me to assemble just enough things for the students to do for the classes I had with them in December up until the two-week break, after they finished their curriculum unit.

Now, my prayers for these two weeks are for guidance and help to get Math and Science activities ready for those classes and to be able to get the curriculum materials ready for the last two units and the reviews, and maybe even the mid-term tests.

I am also praying for guidance on what to do with the other hour of class I have that I was using for play practice.

I am also still praying for the phonics program to come. It would be especially beneficial when the Internet is down.