And the six day weekend has arrived! SWEET! School today seemed to fly by. Getting out two hours early probably helped that a bit, but none of the three classes today dragged on. The classes weren’t shortened at all; rather the afternoon classes were just eliminated.

2B was first. They’ve started learning about weather. Francisco disordered (is that a word?) the story cards, we listened to a story on CD, and then the kids had to tell us the right order of the cards. Later, he reposted the pictures in the right order on the board and called up two students at a time. I would say “it is windy/sunny/cloudy…” and they had to race to touch the right picture. They’re so enthusiastic about “games” like this at that age…too bad that’ll change in a few years!

6B was next and we went to the video room to finish the Thanksgiving food pictures. They were pretty talkative, so that took a little longer than expected. After we finished that there was still about 15 minutes left, which Pilar had anticipated, so she had them bring their English books as well. They really didn’t need them though, because we watched a short video about a prince who was kidnapped by this eagle because he wanted his gold crown. The princess went to rescue him and in exchange for the prince and his crown, she gave the eagle her crown, pearl earrings and her diamond ring. Unfortunately, with all of her jewelry gone, the prince didn’t like her anymore because she didn’t “look” like a princess and so they didn’t live happily ever after :(.

I tried reading the same story to the other five-year-old class, but it didn’t take well; they were so rowdy and talkative! Esperanza thinks it’s because they have “breakfast” hour right before then and they were all sugared up and energetic. Most of them really weren’t listening and so instead of finishing the story, the regular classroom teacher came back and had them get ready to go a few minutes early. It was kinda funny because Esperanza turned to me and was like “She doesn’t care that they were misbehaving”.

I left school and went to the bank to deposit my check (I got paid!) and since we got out early, they were open. The weather can’t decide what it wants to do. When I walked to school it was cloudy and chilly, but not raining. Walking in between classes it was sunny and not too chilly. Leaving school it was cloudy and misting. Two minutes later it stopped, a minute later, it started again and it went back and forth like that a few times on my way home. Luckily, I had my umbrella. Gunita just looked out the window and said it’s snowing! Will came in a minute later and said it’s hailing! What the heck! I need to go to the store, so I hope I can catch it when it breaks. Oh wait, Gunita just looked out the window again and said it sunny…

Xoxo,

Court