Nothing in particular...

Not much has happened this week other than service and work. A sister from the sign group is getting some training from the Branch about how to interpret so she asked me to look after three of her students for her. And I have two new students. So this week has been study after study. Now I'm home sick. I was sick last week and never quite recovered. I kept pushing myself but finally hit a wall today. So I'm home from the meeting. I have a few studies to go on tomorrow so I'm hoping I'm better by then.

School is going well. In the past month I've had 4 new students. They've all finally gotten through the crying stage, thankfully. It's so exhausting! But they're all happy now and I'm enjoying them.

We have had some violence though. Last week a little girl scratched one of the boys on the face, left a mark even. She did it again to another boy this week. Then yesterday a little girl from another class bit one of my students. Left a huge mark and bruised. Fortunately parents are very understanding. But I have to nip this in the bud. So I've implemented 'time out'. When I taught 4-year olds I had a 'thinking chair'. If anyone did something violent they went straight to the thinking chair after I scolded them. But 2-year olds don't really have the 'thinking' concept down so I have to give them a time out. It's the first time I've had to deal with this so I was kind of unsure if it was working or not. But the mom of the scratcher told me the girl had talked about it at home and understood what she did was wrong. That was a relief. The 'time out' thing is working! Here's a photo of the kids.