Little Victories ! :)

August 29, 2013

Today has been a day of small victories, but I feel like they are huge, and all I can do is thank God. After getting super sick last night, and waking up this morning still not feeling good, I knew that God would have to be the teacher in my classroom today. I surrendered my day to God, and asked him to be present, and to speak through me. And He has been answering my prayers all day today.

I was discouraged, that everything I teach I have to teach two or three times for them to get it, and so while I was grading a Language Arts Paper on finding the simple subject of a sentence, and no one got above a 70%, I didn’t know what to do, and so again I had to rearrange my lesson plans, and reteach, and give them another lesson on how it is done. So I gave them another worksheet and I just got done grading it, and most of them got 100%. Thank you, God.

I have also learned that playing music is calming, and their behavior has drastically changed. For which I am thankful. They were quiet and working.

Also, I have had to learn quickly, how to teach some of these kids. They are very smart, but some of them lack the ability of motivation. I am learning how to motivate the students. They all got A’s on their memory verse quiz today as well.

I have learned how to teach math in a more effective way. And today, I decided to try a different way, and they got it. And they are so excited. And all of them stayed in from Lunch to complete their assignments, and I finally feel like I walked away knowing that I taught them something. God is so good.

This morning, I was greeted by one of my adorable, girl students with a beautiful rose. It made my day. This is the same girl, which while we were sharing how God had answered a prayer had said, “I prayed, and asked Jesus to send me a nice girl teacher. He answered my prayer.” How little things like that warm your heart.

Daily, I have to remind myself why I am here, and it is for these students, my students, God’s students. I love them all dearly, and am praising God, that most of them are loving to learn. Comments such as, “Teacher, school is fun!” “Teacher, is it already the end of the day?” “Miss, I don’t want to go home.” I love them.

Right now they are at lunch, and there are a couple students that decided to stay in and now are drawing on the board. I will post a picture later.

Later on today, the SM’s are going to town. I love our town trips. I bought a dress that was made locally, and I am going to be buying more.

After we went to town for our weekly shopping trip, we came back and I played basketball with Van Larry and Carolita. (Both are SM’s) It was good to relieve some of the stress that has been building up. It was dark when we got done playing. And the stars were amazing. So Van and Carolita and I went up to the roof of the high school building, and sat and talked about God, and things that we were scared of about going back to our home. It was nice to talk about things, and just have quality people here to talk to about almost anything. We also saw a couple shooting stars. The stars back home don’t compare to here. You could see the milky way, and it was absolutely beautiful.

I was such a good day.  So I am praising God. He always supplies what we need when we need it the most.