HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MATTHEW!!!!!

It’s ridiculously windy this Thursday afternoon! It’s chilly too, 56, so that’s a bad combination; my least favorite :/.

        The majority of the day was spent with Ana in infantil, like every Thursday. First hour, with five-years A, after the usual day and weather talk, we reviewed/learned the seasons. Ana said they knew spring and autumn but not winter and summer (not really sure how or why) so we learned those and practiced pronunciation. Then we played the much loved memory game with food vocab flashcards.

To the morning four-year-olds I reread the story about The Monkey Family’s picnic, where Ellie comes in and eats everything. Afterwards we did a worksheet in which they had to color all the flowers red, color the number six in the middle page whatever they wanted and put on three stickers of sheep. I played memory with the afternoon class, whilst Ana finished cutting out food items for an activity. She had this poster of a plate and they had to come up and put on the plate what they’d like to eat for lunch—sandwiches, apples, bananas, pears or cupcakes!

Ana said she wanted to go to the video room with 2A so I went on ahead to set everything up and she brought the class in like ten minutes later. They’re learning about plants in science, so we watched this interactive story called The Lucky Seed. The seed grows up to be a…wait for it…tree (imagine that!)

Last hour with 6B we corrected some activities. We did it a little differently, though, Mari had them write the sentences on the board and in order to get their points they had to explain their reasoning. I got to play devil’s advocate and would say things like “so why is it “had” and not “haved”?” That was fun! For me, at least…bahahaha!

Happy Weekend to Me! I’ve got class at 4:30 and then it’s relaxation time! Also, Carmen’s picking me up tomorrow to take me to the post office to send my 40 POUND box of clothes home…yeah, I can’t wait to see how much that’s gonna set me back. After that we’re going back to her house to watch an episode of Sherlock, the British series. She told me when we met on Monday that she’s OBSESSED with it! It’s true, too; she rewatches an episode everyday and can pretty much quote the episodes word for word!!!

Xoxo,

Court