It’s nearly 60 degrees today and sunny at the moment (although it was raining as I was walking home). I actually got a little warm while walking back and forth from classes earlier, but when the sun went into hiding and the rain made an appearance, it was a rather chilly.

First hour was split with the three-year-olds. I went to Julia’s class first and they were just finishing up the “Buenos Días” song. Then Mayte called roll in English and we counted the number of students in school and at home (17 and 3). Then Julia taught the class a few tongue twisters for spring.

Ángela’s class is learning about fruits and vegetables, so they went over those several times (and I would say the name in English). The student who said the word first took the card and stuck it on the board. It’s amazing how into it they were! Some actually got upset if they had said the word but weren’t able to put it up there—but they are three, I guess!

5A is reading a comic strip book based on the novel “Around the World in Eighty Days”. They were working on questions and doing an assignment for the majority of the time, so I didn’t do much. Although I was able to go over the assignment with them with ten minutes left in class.

1B had a little quiz of sorts. They had this picture of fish and the bubbles from their mouths had different letters to spell out animals (lion, elephant, dolphin, etc). Below the big picture, there were smaller pictures of the animals and they had to find the word and write it underneath the picture. Later, I said “color the fish/lion/dolphin red/yellow/blue”. Espe had predicted that some would have trouble with it and she was right…they took a long time; we almost ran out of time and had to rush towards the end of the hour.

In five-years A we did this activity to practice putting on and taking off clothes. Espe had this poster of a scarecrow in which we could change the shoes, hat, pants and shirt. We had one student at a time go up the board and I would say, for example “put on the purple shoes” or “take off the yellow hat”.

In place of Pilar’s 6A, I went to 3A Plástica (aka Art). I’d never been to Plástica before, so I was interested to see what they’d do. It’s wasn’t what I’d expected: they colored this picture of a castle. So I sat there as I usually do with the third years and watched chaos unfold, as Raúl reached into Lourdes’ coat pocket, stole her keys and tried to run out of the class. Oh how I hope they find a replacement for Pilar sooner rather than later!

I’m gonna go to the chino store when it opens back up at five to see about getting some blank CDs, for Will to burn some Modern Family. Oh and I also need to call this lady about possibly giving her a class. I hope it works out!

Xoxo,

Court