First teaching day

Today was my first day to teach. I prepped for 2 hours and then taught my first class, Basic 5. There are 7 students, 8-9 years old. Tom, Raphael, Milro, Karen, David, and two names I can't remember. Basically, Tom is a little punk. I was warned by Nhi too, but today he hit Raphael when we were on break. He must have like zero boundaries and consequences at home because he doesn't seem to give a damn. That class was from 14 30 - 15 50 (it's my every day class) and we read pages 2-5 in "Kick the Ball" by Lord knows who...

At 16 00 I started my second class of three. This one lasts till 18 50 with a 10 minute break at 17 30. This was Grade 4, reading "Treasures 3.2". Five students: Eric, Paul, Daniel, Diana, and Amy. Paul is pretty much ADD so that's really hard for this long of a class and that small of a classroom. I got in trouble for this: there was a drawing activity about halfway through the lesson that took like an hour. Too long apparently, which I get, but there wasn't enough material really. I guess I'm going to have to get really creative to take up all that time...

From 19 00 to 22 00 is my last class. Middle school student = the worst students. They are impossible to motivate. Almost. It really was like pulling teeth because NOBODY would talk. They wouldn't answer my questions even. It was like "Sally ate lunch" and me: "What did Sally do?" and no one would answer. Very hard. We read a story and then did grammar at the end. I hope after a few weeks they start talking more.

I'm tired, the maintenance guy is coming tomorrow morning at 11 and then I gotta go to school to prep. I have to turn in my lesson plans for the first month (grr) and I need to figure out some things about quizzes (they have quizzes every class and I also need to look at their homework because we go over it every class too)

Sigh.