Anyone else noticed?

[DWAEDGIMORIGUKBAP]

On certain days, Korean kids seem to have a 'collective consiousness' sort of experience.

Today is by far the hottest and most humid day of the year where I am.

In class today the kids ALL seem really stupid and kind of weird like they've never met me before even though I've been teaching them for 8 months.

In one class it took me 10 minutes to explain the most simple game I've ever tried (look at a calander, I tell them the date, they shout the day name.)  I started doing it in Korean, saying the dates in Korean and then to check they understood, made them point at the date I said in the calander.  I was saying 'sip Il' - they'd point at any number other than 10.  Say 'oh il' - they'd be pointing at 19, 4, 23 or another page even....

Thought it was just them but then in my next older class, they seemed to have taken silly pills this morning....

Maybe this happebns to kids in other countries too, I've only ever taught here so have no point of reference to comapare with.

On a side note, anyone noticed how frustrating it is when you are typing in this little typing window and it gets longer than the size of the wondow and then have to keep scrolling down using the scroll bar to see if what you're typing is coming out etc...?   Drives me nuts.!  No way I'm ficing my typos, too much hassle!!!

[dani23]

I agree. It seems to happen quite frequently during summer, on those humid days. I try to adapt my activities to something that I know gets them exited. BINGO is a staple for me.

[Dyl]

On a side note, anyone noticed how frustrating it is when you are typing in this little typing window and it gets longer than the size of the wondow and then have to keep scrolling down using the scroll bar to see if what you're typing is coming out etc...?   Drives me nuts.!  No way I'm ficing my typos, too much hassle!!!

I use Chrome (so this may not apply to other browsers) and in the bottom right-hand corner of the text box there's two diagonal lines parallel to each other. By clicking and dragging on those I'm able to resize the window.

[tolson]

It happens teaching back home too. Either its nice and they'd rather be outside or it's too hot and humid and it just saps their energy. Honestly it happens to me too, some hot days my brain just wont really turn on.

[travelinpantsgirl]

This happens to my kids more after trips and on rainy days and if I get both (like this week) it's a double whammy. It just so happens that Tuesday was my renewal open class and a double whammy (they just returned from an overnight trip they hated and it was raining) and boy did that open class bomb in front of two cameras and two district officials and my VP. Oh fun. I love my kids (and I know this happens all over the world with kids) but Tuesday it was like they got lobotomies or it was attack of the body snatchers and my kids were replaced with clones...hehe. We practiced on Thursday the action verbs and then during open class they kept dropping the -ing ending or didn't even know the basic verb. I was like wha?!? So yeah, I know exactly what you mean. hehe. I do love them though and I don't blame them, I brought them donuts today, I felt their pain and I also feel yours...hehe.

[annakadabra]

no way...  :o 

On a side note, anyone noticed how frustrating it is when you are typing in this little typing window and it gets longer than the size of the wondow and then have to keep scrolling down using the scroll bar to see if what you're typing is coming out etc...?   Drives me nuts.!  No way I'm ficing my typos, too much hassle!!!

I use Chrome (so this may not apply to other browsers) and in the bottom right-hand corner of the text box there's two diagonal lines parallel to each other. By clicking and dragging on those I'm able to resize the window.