new teacher & extra hands

Our new preschool teacher, Patience, arrived at the beginning of our week of break for mid-term. Murphy’ law for timing I guess. But this Monday when we started back we were very glad to have her. She seems to be doing a good job (though I don’t really know as I’m kept pretty busy in my classroom). We were doubly glad to have her this week as we’ve been shorthanded with our first grade teacher (Mirriam) out due to a death in the family. Having Patience was able to free Dorothy to do first grade—not sure how they got on with the southern drawl she brings with her, but we have made it through another week with the help of a lot of extra hands. We had a volunteer from Lumberton, NC through Medical Benevolences Foundation who also helped in 1st grade Mon-Wed, one of the Dutch doctor’s sisters is down for a visit and Laurah has been in my class for the week which has been wonderful. There was a Dutch group here and for 2 days 3 of their volunteers came to the school. So lots of extra hands and that has been very nice for our interaction and dialogue in the learning centers.