I don't understand

So I told my 6th grade English class we were going to do a correspondence with a class in America, the 6th grade English class of Ms. Sarah Crane no less and I am super excited about it and naturally expected them to be the same. However when I explained it to them i only got a lukewarm excitement level, which made me feel sure they just didn't understand what I was telling them. Turns out they thought each one of them was going to get a correspondent so when I told them there was only 25 people in her class and we would be writing letters as a group they were less excited about it. Also they thought the class was going to come visit them, and I was like...no, not at all, nope. They were not excited about that either, so we'll monitor the situation but I think after getting their first letter they will be much more excited about this.

Anyways, in their horrible english text book there are a few word searches to help them recognize english vocabulary lessons, one day a student came up to me and told  me we should do one. So a few days later I roll into class with a word search I had made with a bunch of vocabuarly they would need to know for the test and tried to explain it to them and they could not have been more confused. It's a word search, english words are hidden in there and you have to find them. Like you just find letters and then make words? No, like the the letters follow one another, they are connected you can't pick and chose. So we find these words and make sentences with them? No, but that's a fantastic idea for next time. So, is this what the test is going to be? No, it's just for funm sort of like a game, you have to find the english words. But....I don't get it. Really? So I had to find a few and show them, horizontal or vertical words in english. And then they asked if they should color them or circle them or put a line through them or do a different color for each word and I was like whatever you want! It doesn't matter! color them in or circle them. And then  mistakenly put in other randome english words that I hadn't taught them but they knew somehow and then asked if that counted and then there weren' enough copies for everyone and it just turned into such a complicated problem. I was trying to do something fun, a fun little word search and they just could not for the life of them understand it's purpose or why on earth it would be fun.

In other news, I played a Jeopardy style review game in computer class and it was a smashig success, those kids have never loved me more. They really love games and they didn't do as terribly as I thought they would, which is good becuase they remembered somethings I told them like the task bar and that it's called a monitor. They still cannot remember the difference between the butons on the mouse, they think left is right and right is left. I don't understand it. This week I taught them the home row and how to place their hands when typing and had them practice and they complained about how hard it was and then I did a few for them and blew every single one of their minds with the speed and agility I could type. One time they called the other girls over by saying 'come over here and see something you've never seen before in your life.' haha! I'm so cool.