Hello dear teachers!

Thanks for reading this post I really need your advice, I hope you can help me with this situation:

I �m an ESL teacher in a primary school my children are 6-7 years old.

The first day of classes I explained the classroom rules (we �ve been working together for 3 weeks now) and I �m afraid I �m having troubles managing classroom discipline, I have hall-passes but they continuously interrupt and ask for permission to go to the bathroom, also I find kind of difficult to get their attention and make them to follow directions.

I have tried to motivate them with games, but this created more indiscipline.

They don �t want prizes or candies because they know their parents can and will buy them if they ask (most of the kids from school come from very rich families).

This is my first time working with kids, I love teaching and I want to continue working with them so I need your advice.

One thing that work well was teaching through movies and songs but I can �t do that with them every day.

I must admit that I wasn �t very very strict with them at first and I regret .

Hope it �s not to late.

Thank you so much for our help!