what i'm actually teaching

i realized i have never actually mentioned what classes i am teaching or what the classes are like. so i'll do that now, for you super curious readers out there.
i am teaching p1 through p6, pre-jhs, jhs1-jhs3. it's a total of ten different grades ranging from the american equivalent of first grade through 10th grade.
the students are sometimes the correct age for their class, but they are sometimes much older, depending on how long they had to wait to go to school. so p1 might have some six-year-olds, but it might also have 14-year-olds. it's a broad range.
the class sizes also vary quite a bit. my p1 class is monstrous: 20 or so hyper deaf kids who REFUSE to stay seated. but the older classes get smaller and much more manageable. p5 has about 8 students, jhs3 about 10.
the classrooms are all in one building, but the school is currently being renovated, so the girls dorm is also in the same building, and a few teachers also live in the same building. so several classrooms have been converted to housing, and the classrooms are partitioned off so two fit in one room.
this is fine; the kids can't hear to be distracted by another class. but it means that there is not a DOOR that can be CLOSED when class is in session, so all the kids who don't have class swarm the class that i am teaching and drive me NUTS.
the kids sit one or two to a wooden desk/bench combination. many are broken. the windows are broken/screens torn. the blackboards are black painted on the wall. it's little things that i've already stopped noticing, but just dramatically different than american classrooms. the walls are mostly bare; the only posters are hand-drawn diagrams of science topics, usually drawn by the best artist in that class.
the kids absolutely love using the pencil sharpeners that i have. typically, they use razor blades to sharpen their pencils, so the real sharpeners are still a novelty to them.
it's simple things like that which keep them entertained.