{"id":3254,"date":"2013-11-13T12:16:46","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T12:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/?p=3254"},"modified":"2024-01-29T12:41:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T17:41:02","slug":"kendal-primary-school-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/kendal-primary-school-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The world is so different&#8230; by Jason Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1470242_10152028647325482_2048146583_n.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3259\" alt=\"1470242_10152028647325482_2048146583_n\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1470242_10152028647325482_2048146583_n-300x223.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a>Today was my second day at Kendal Primary School and the experience so far has been absolutely amazing.\u00a0 It is hard to find words to describe what it is like to teach these students.\u00a0 Today we taught them from the book Very Loud Lilly.\u00a0 While reading this story we were able to include many different movements and sounds, like stomping your feet for Lilly&#8217;s dance and roaring like a lion for the school play.\u00a0 The students get so excited over this, but that the same time we established a hand signal to stop and listen and when made the students immediately freeze and get ready to listen to the story again.\u00a0 I feel that through stories and things like this that we are able to accomplish our goal of teaching the students to think in a different way and giving them new comprehension strategies to better understand what they hear and read.\u00a0 Another thing that I have been absolutely floored by is how the smallest gestures and things can make a students day.\u00a0 As a reward for being so awesome and well behaved each student was given the chance to pick out a marker for them to keep and take with them.\u00a0 The students were so excited and carried their markers around with them for the rest of the day, never putting them down.\u00a0 Another small thing is to give the students stickers.\u00a0 To see their faces light up when they get a sticker like it&#8217;s the most amazing thing in the world is life changing and helps you to understand better where these students come from and how different their world is.\u00a0 The last thing I want to mention is just how loving and caring these students are, when I walk down the hall students just stick their hands out for high fives and want to just run their hands down your arm.\u00a0 The smallest gesture or act of kindness here can change a child&#8217;s entire day.\u00a0 This experience for me has truly been life changing and opened my eyes to how things are outside of the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was my second day at Kendal Primary School and the experience so far has been absolutely amazing.\u00a0 It is hard to find words to describe what it is like to teach these students.\u00a0 Today we taught them from the book Very Loud Lilly.\u00a0 While reading this story we were able to include many different &hellip; 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