Nothing worthy of note occurred during the rest of break, thus I’ve waited until now to post anew. It’s partly cloudy and 65 today—not bad—although tomorrow they’re calling for thunderstorms.

I spent the first half of the three-year-old hour with Ángela’s class. We did the usual: greetings, numbers, colors, shapes and days of the week. We also went over the alphabet and numbers in Julia’s, but I had less time in there, so that was about it.

With 5A we talked about school holidays—I read a section from their books about holidays in Britain and then compared those to American holidays. I then asked them questions about what we read and I said and it took them forever to answer like three questions! María José hadn’t anticipated that either. I asked her if they were too hard and she said no. I mean, they were pretty straight forward like “What holiday do we celebrate in November?” and “In what month does our summer vacation normally start?” It was the first day back from break, so that could’ve had something to do with it.

We did this worksheet in 1B in which they had to trace the numbers 1-10 then connect-the-dots to form a picture of a penguin. Oh and of course they colored it afterwards. That class was pretty easy going today.

Espe wanted to review a whole bunch of vocab today with five-years A, so we played this memory game of sorts. She wrote the numbers 1-10 on the board and placed a flashcard face down underneath each number, and then I would say a vocab word (i.e. sheep) and they had to guess which number they thought it was…some weren’t very good at it—they kept forgetting what had already been called and where it was!

I left after that because ‘whoever’ still hasn’t sent a sub for Pilar in sixth year. I talked with Rocío and she said they’re hoping someone will come tomorrow (which is what she told me before break about today, so who knows). They don’t expect me to keep teaching on my own (good!) and so she Ok’d me leaving early.

I’m glad I did leave early because I went to the store after that and ran into my student Pilar’s dad. And I was like “I’ll see you later this afternoon” and he said that she’s in Portugal, which I didn’t know…so no lesson. I’m kinda glad though—now I have the afternoon/evening to myself…I need to run back out and grab some milk (not enough hands before) and I think I’ll take a nap too!

Xoxo,

Court