Congratulate.

The students at LEAP 4 finished their self-portraits today. I decided against continuing on with the poem, because that would have just added unnecessary stress. Sometimes teachers forget that we are the task-makers, and we get all stressed out because "there's not enough time" but in reality, there's always enough time, and usually too much to do. But I am in control of that. Anyway, I've written that "Where I'm From" poem like, three times this week, and have led almost 100 students from LEAP 3 in that activity, so it seemed an easy thing to let go.

So I pursued all of our peace, and I am super pleased with the results (and I think the students are as well). They were not extremely thrilled with using the oil pastels (many of them had never used oil pastels before), but they quickly figured out strategies, such as using tissue to blend the colors.

After they finished their art, I asked to take a picture of them. There is another class of pictures, but my camera is not working on account of the South African double A batteries that I purchased that were dead before they entered my camera. What a waste of 20 Rand.