Check out this gorgeous view of the city! Don´t worry I took more than one, I will try to post them to facebook soon!This past weekend I went to mass up in the mountain at the church where my host family´s daughter was married. It was a nice church and the ride there was beautiful. After mass my host mom and dad took me to a look out point where you can see over most of the city. It was an incredible view. You can see the mountains surrounding the city and the houses that are painted bright colors stand out even from high up. I will try to post one of the photos so you can see the view.
This week I taught the 5th graders about directions, (N, S, E, W). We played with my inflatable beach ball globe and told them how people give directions in the US. It was an interesting experience to step in and try to teach a class that I did not know at all. I had a few problems with classroom management, and I was surprised the teacher didn´t help me much with keeping them focused. Overall, I think they understood it better after we played with the beach ball.
Last week my 6th graders took my math quiz, some of them clearly did not study for it but when we went over it after I graded them I think most of them got it.
This week I have been spending a lot of time planning next months lessons. Starting next week I take over the class, so I got to put the plans in the official planner that gets read and approved by the primary grades coordinator. It is different to be planning all of my lessons from one book with the timeline of one month to teach the whole thing but I think as a first time teacher it is probably good to have so much structure to teach me time management. I think the plans I have laid out will give us time to get through the book and have some fun extra activities on the side. I am really hoping to do some fun stuff in science class with them, they will be learning about microscopic organisms, depending on what they have in the lab at the school. They will also be watching (hopefully) the Magic School Bus inside Ralphie VHS if the seller ships to Mexico. :) I think the first week will be a little scary but once I get going I think I will have a better idea of how to go with the flow and get through the book and get to the fun review games for their exams in March.
I´ll keep you posted on how it´s going!
More later!
P.S. I get to go see the butterflies on Saturday! I´m so excited! I promise to take lots of pictures!
1 comment:
WOW it sounds like you are having an amazing time. I hope to see more pictures I love looking at what you get to see while you're there!!
Much love.
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