Dia del Nino-The Day of the Child

The past few weeks of school have been great. Our kinder kids have finally started to calm down. Part of this is due to them becoming more familair and comfortable with school. However, Amanda and I have also begun incorporating things like 'how to push in your chair' and 'how to walk in a line' into our lessons. At first, it felt silly doing this but I guess someone has to teach them! It's been great seeing the changes in our students. Check out Amanda Bruin's blog at http://amandaatdestino.blogspot.com/2009/09/past-few-weeks.html. She has a great post about one of our students, Michelle. Michelle was one of our biggest troublemakers, especially during the first week of school but her behavior has really turned around. Read about her. It will make you smile!

Prepa(kindergarten), and Primero(first grade) are also doing well. The students in Primero know quite a few English vocabulary words and we've begun to teach them short phrases such as "My name is..." and "I am 7 years old." Most of them love English class and are very enthusiastic. On Monday we introduced a new phrase, "May I go to the bathroom?" We have a student, Marvin, who always has an amazing attitude and really wants to please us. When we introduce a new phrase Bruin and I have the entire class repeat the phrase together and then ask if anyone would like to try saying the phrase by themselves. Marvin immediately raised his arm, he was so excited to try out the phrase he was about to jump out of his seat. So we call on him and he proudly exclaimed, "My name is bathroom!" I tried so hard not to laugh, but I failed. Thankfully when I explained to him what he said he thought it was pretty funny too.

Marvin

A couple weeks ago we celebrated the Honduran holiday called Dia del Nino. This is a day for celebrating children which means that during lunch we went to the playground, ate cake, and busted a pinata! It was a great day!

Diana and Josefa, the Honduran Preschool and Kindergarten teachers!

Jasmine enjoying the playground! Prepatoria(Kindergarten)

During Primero(1st grade) we decided to make class fun and teach the kids about American culture, so we taught them to play Simon Says. It's actually a great way to teach the kids verbs. A great time was had by all!

Josue and Ana, Primero(First Grade)