Report of week 2. 

This was the first full week. That was clearly noticeable, because on Friday some were very tired. Junior even fell asleep in the middle of class! But what a lot we have experienced and learned! We are no longer in groups. The children who can learn sit in a horseshoe shape near the blackboard.

But when we start in the morning we are in a large circle. There we start by singing a welcome song and repeating the days of the week. Also, with a song. After singing, Rosemund and Loïs are given drinking yogurt. It takes quite a bit of time before that is consumed. Afterwards, the other children receive their brought meal. Some children have not eaten anything at home yet. We will probably give them all drinking yoghurt from next week. Then at least they all have something in their stomach and we can have lunch together at 12:00.

It now appears that Gilbert is not retarded at all. (We already knew that from Ezkiel.) The only problem is that he can't speak. He actually speaks without any articulation. So we're going to do something about speech therapy. Speech therapists among you: are there activities that we could do with him, and even better: with the whole class?

In any case, we are going to make an attempt to give these two gentlemen homework.

I'm curious. Especially since they both can't hold their pencils. What we then run into is that the family at home must help them: Often that means: making the work quickly, because then the teacher does not see that they have not made it. Or just foretell: that even happens in the classroom!

I regularly ask Daniel (assistant teacher and Mary and Paul (both volunteers) who is learning: them or the children?