Second to last week at Soto

Highlights from this week:
1. Running on the beach with Mireille Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. It is one of the most amazing things to run at sunset along the beach. On a clear night we can see the Gibraltar, Africa, the moon and the stars...

2. Watching my year six students play in the lunch time football championship game. The Dustpan Cleaners took on the Beach Boys. They are amazing player. Some of them are more modest than others, I saw a few brushing off their shoulders and mock shinning each other's shoes. I couldn't help but laugh

3. Starting to teach my two dimensional shapes unit in math and having everyone understand everyone! I didn't have to split my class up into three ability groups, amazing. On Monday I introduced all of the common 2D shapes and they had to draw them in their notebooks. Tuesday I used a lesson that I had designed for my fifth grade class during methods on triangles. I talked about the importance of learning about triangles, what professions deal with triangles and where can we find triangles in the real world. We also identified different types of triangles. Yesterday I taped a 2D shape on the backs of all of the students and they had to go around the room asking yes or no questions about their shapes properties to figure out what shape they were. Today I introduced using a protractor and measuring angles, something I always found difficult. However, once again, all of the students were successful after taking notes on the "four easy steps" to identify an angle. =] Tomorrow we will have our second weekly "Math Game." As introduced by my fifth grade teacher, Mrs. Tolar at Bamber Valley Elementary school. The students bet money on whether they will answer math questions correctly and add or subtract money from their team's total.

4. Receiving the final drafts of my informal and formal letters, from all of the students - finally!

5. Teaching the loves and loathes lesson on Wednesday for the extended writing students. These were very entertaining! I also made friends with a year five student named Mario, he told me he loves American Football (first student I have found to say this) unfortunately, he told me he hates the Vikings haha. Now I keep rubbing it in his face that they are doing well. =]

6. Playing 40/40 or Kick the Can with my Intercultural group on Wednesday afternoon. I really enjoy getting to know some of the other primary students, they are all so great! I really am going to miss them, a lot...kind of dreading it.

7. Dancing with Brittany's P1 class during Mireille's PE class. I introduced them to the song "Hop Hop Stop" (From Cleveland - hello all) they loved it...and I have it on video tape.

8. Having Mireille teach me how to drive a 5 speed manual car, in Spain - yikes. I drove all the way from Marbella to Sotogrande after school today. I am now the MASTER of round - a - bouts, driving a manual in the states now will be a breeze. However, it was slightly embarrassing when I stalled at the toll booth, haha...I had a good recovery thought, it's alright. No worries Mom and Dad, I am still in one piece and Mireille is too ;)

9. Asking which one of my students was missing their jumper (aka sweatshirt) and having Alex tell me to give it to Vicky to smell it, and then she would know whose it was. She smelled it, I gagged, and she told me she thought it was Miguel's. HAHAHA

10. Saturday we travel to MADRID! yes