HAPPY WEEKEND TO ME! Only one more week until break!

My weather thing says it’s 52 and clear but there are still some clouds in the sky; in fact it’s been overcast most of the day. The sun is out now though which is nice…as it’s stayed away the last few days.

We didn’t do much first hour with five-years A because they had rehearsal for the festival and that took most of the hour. We got back with about ten minutes left and we listened to the story about Santa and his sleigh on CD…the one I read them last week, I think.

In four-years B we practiced their carol a few times then we did a workbook page. It was a picture of a Christmas tree and they had to stick on certain stickers that matched the shapes on the tree. There were three circles and four squares. They didn’t get an option with the circles because the only color was yellow but with the squares they got to choose red or blue. They could go 2 and 2, 3 and 1or 4 and 0. Afterwards they had to color in the number they had chosen. Some colored in random numbers so it took a little bit of an explanation.

2A has an exam tomorrow, so we reviewed. For quick practice I pronounced the vocab (clothing…hat, dress, shorts, etc) and they repeated. I then stuck the photos on the board and called up students to stick the right words with the pictures. Also we played Telephone, I think that’s what it’s called, where you whisper a word to one person and they whisper it to another and another until the last person has to say it correctly; although in this case they had to grab the flashcard off the board. We ended with BINGO.

As we don’t have as much time with the afternoon classes as with the morning ones, with four-years A we didn’t do the Christmas Tree worksheet. We listened to the story about Santa and then practiced their song several times and that was all there was time for.

The only English thing we did in 6B was the Christmas crossword, the one we did on Monday with the others. They have science fourth hour and always run over into fifth hour. Usually they take about five to ten minutes to finish up but today it was like half an hour! So we went through the crossword rather quickly after that and then the day was over.

I got paid today…YAY! Aurora included an extra 35€ for the Christmas lunch next Thursday (yeah, it’s that expensive, it’s like at least five courses!). That surprised me because last year they didn’t buy my lunch; not that I’m complaining in the least this year! It was really nice of them. So I need to run to the bank at five to deposit my check and then to the store after that.

Xoxo,

Court