Captured

Chapter 3

It was already the students morning break time when she finish touring EJ around the campus. They were walking to the Resource Room when one of her students that has Autism approached her.

"Ms. Kristine! Ms. Kristine! You know I got a 100 from my computer class today!" The student greeted her happily.

Among all of her students she was really fond of John. John is an only child born to old aged parents. He is a smart boy and is very independent.

She approached her student and gave him a high five.

"Wow! Did you answer all of Mr. Ron's questions right?"

Ron, the computer teacher of the school is one of her good friends. Among her friends were Joshua and her Kuya Joe the science teachers, Mollie the PE teacher, Frank their school counselor, her Ate Mary the admin staff and Mary Jane their registrar.

EJ was just looking at her with so much admiration. She is so affectionate towards the students. He can see that she really cares for the students.

"Ah, you know. I had a hard time but my classmates helped me! Mr. Ron also give me assignments. He said I need to submit by next Monday. Ms. Kristine who is he?"

John inquired from curiosity. Kristine smiled at the curious student.

"He is Mr. Rivera. He will be Ms. Kristine's partner at work. He will also be teaching the other students. Do you want him to be your teacher too?"

John looked at him and smiled. John is known to be mischievous and likes to play games with his teachers.

"Ahm... Maybe, but I like Ms. Kristine more."

He was amazed at how the student replied. EJ looked at the student and smiled.

" It's okay buddy, if you want we can play games during break and lunchtimes."

John put his finger to his chin and replied to him politely.

"Ah... No thank you. I'm gonna be sweaty if I play during break and lunchtime. I don't want to be sweaty."

The student smiled at him and left when the bell rang for the next period. They went inside the room and her two teacher aides welcomed EJ.

"This is Ms. Rose and Ms. Angie. They are the teacher aides here. Let's have a seat so we can have a short meeting on the changes that will happen."

They all sat down on the armchairs placed in her room.

"Ladies, this is Mr. Rivera. He will be handling the 6th and 7th graders from team A."

He shook the hands of the two teacher aides and introduced himself.

"You can call me EJ. Mr. Rivera sounds very formal. I'm glad to be a part of this team. I hope to learn new things and learn new experiences."

The older ladies have their own respective desks. Kristine didn't like the idea of them not having their own privacy and own area where they can work on the students' activities.

"As for your desk Mr. EJ, we can arrange it wherever you want. We'll just help out after lunch. As for the routine we have here. What we do is the General Education teachers provide the lesson plans for a week and we take out the important skills related to that lesson. Every morning the ladies and I do a rundown on what is expected to be accomplished by the end of the day. They already know the set of students for different days and schedules. The online therapy sessions are scheduled during Tuesdays and Thursdays. I will provide you the list of students that receive Occupational Therapy and Speech Therapy. Ms. Rose will provide you the codes for the printer in the office and also the passwords for the computers."