I had two more good classes today. I think I may ditch the textbook that the school assigned because the vocabulary is too difficult. Rather than trying to teach them a bunch of new words or proper grammar, I just want the students to speak more and feel comfortable doing it. I think they all know a lot of words in English, they're just shy when it comes to saying them.

So we play some games and I try and get them moving around and talking to different classmates. That worked well yesterday and today. And I think I'm going to incorporate more singing into my classes from now on. Since both of my classes are in the morning, I had them sing the last four lines of the song "Road to Joy" by Bright Eyes on the album I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning. It mentions being wide awake so I figured that was enough of a connection to warrant using it in class. And since today's lesson was mostly focused on introducing oneself, I had them sing/rap the chorus to Eminem's "The Way I Am". They seem to like singing. If anything they get a kick out of watching me sing the songs in front of the class before I have them sing with me.