Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Dress down Day
Normally here at SCA the students have a dress code which basically consists of blue or gray pants and a blue polo with the SCA emblem. However, occasionally we have a dress down day... but the catch is... it's not free! If the students want to participate they have to pay 300 pesos for either pants or top, or they pay 500 (approx. $1) pesos for both. The proceeds then go to the Senior class for their Senior trip. It's kind of a fun thing that teachers and students both enjoy!
Monday, September 22, 2008
Some ABC's of Preschool Learning
A - Asking for help
B - Baking cookies to share with Moms
C - Cleaning up after making messes
D - Delivering the attendance chart to the office every day
E - English, Spanish, English, Spanish, ENGLISH!
F - Following the leader
G - Gluing craft projects to the paper and the table!
H - Holding pencils properly
I - Identifying the letters of the alphabet
J - Just being boys!
K - Knowing the primary colors
L - Learning to share with each other
M - Memorizing the Bible Verse (Ephesians 6:1)
N - Not bouncing in chairs
O - Opening and closing doors quietly
P - Practicing the Alphabet on chalboard and whitboard
Q - "Quietly" walking in the hallway :)
R - Reading stories
S - Singing songs
T - Taping the date on the calendar
U - Understanding each other
V - Victoriously remembering where matches are in the memory game
W - Washing hands before snack time
X - Xing legs to sit on the floor and play "bear hunt"
Y - Yelling outside only!
Z - Zipping jackets to go home!
B - Baking cookies to share with Moms
C - Cleaning up after making messes
D - Delivering the attendance chart to the office every day
E - English, Spanish, English, Spanish, ENGLISH!
F - Following the leader
G - Gluing craft projects to the paper and the table!
H - Holding pencils properly
I - Identifying the letters of the alphabet
J - Just being boys!
K - Knowing the primary colors
L - Learning to share with each other
M - Memorizing the Bible Verse (Ephesians 6:1)
N - Not bouncing in chairs
O - Opening and closing doors quietly
P - Practicing the Alphabet on chalboard and whitboard
Q - "Quietly" walking in the hallway :)
R - Reading stories
S - Singing songs
T - Taping the date on the calendar
U - Understanding each other
V - Victoriously remembering where matches are in the memory game
W - Washing hands before snack time
X - Xing legs to sit on the floor and play "bear hunt"
Y - Yelling outside only!
Z - Zipping jackets to go home!
Sunday, September 14, 2008
He aplazado! (I have procrastinated!)
Wow... time has flown by since my last post and I'm not totally sure where to begin. Many things have taken place around here in the last week and a half!
This last Wednesday the Pre-K - 2nd grade took a field trip to the local Jumbo (pronounced Joombo). This store would be very similar to a Super WalMart in the States. Anyway, the pictures here show you a little of the get up that each of us was required to wear for our little tour. We were quite the sideshow as we traipsed around in these outfits. During the course of the trip we visited the Dairy, Fish, Produce, and Bakery. The kids even got to hold and knead their own little piece of dough. Pretty exciting!
This last Thursday we had a very interesting discussion in one of the Junior High History classes. We began the class by discussing the origin of schools in Colonial American. The basic need for schools came because society as a whole had a desire for their kids to learn to read and write for the expressed purpose of being able to read Scripture. They knew that this Biblical foundation was needed in order to, at the very least, have a "Christian" or moral based society. This discussion then led to contrasting the schools of that time with the schools of today. Not a pretty picture. I'm not really sure how it got there, but we eventually were talking about the end times, the antichrist, and eternal security. It really was a good discussion and I look forward to having more opportunities in the future to discuss these things. Normally, we would not take a class period and discuss just any random old thing, but in a way it did apply and I felt that several of these things were good for all of us to talk through.
You could be in prayer for the school in one specific way. After this semester the school will be losing 3 highschool teachers. 2 only planned on being here for a semester and the other is going off the field and back to the States. Then next year (beginning July 09) There will be probably 4 more positions that will need to be filled. Our God is amazing though and he already has it taken care of for us! It's so exciting to see the way he works! Thanks for your prayers!
This last Wednesday the Pre-K - 2nd grade took a field trip to the local Jumbo (pronounced Joombo). This store would be very similar to a Super WalMart in the States. Anyway, the pictures here show you a little of the get up that each of us was required to wear for our little tour. We were quite the sideshow as we traipsed around in these outfits. During the course of the trip we visited the Dairy, Fish, Produce, and Bakery. The kids even got to hold and knead their own little piece of dough. Pretty exciting!
This last Thursday we had a very interesting discussion in one of the Junior High History classes. We began the class by discussing the origin of schools in Colonial American. The basic need for schools came because society as a whole had a desire for their kids to learn to read and write for the expressed purpose of being able to read Scripture. They knew that this Biblical foundation was needed in order to, at the very least, have a "Christian" or moral based society. This discussion then led to contrasting the schools of that time with the schools of today. Not a pretty picture. I'm not really sure how it got there, but we eventually were talking about the end times, the antichrist, and eternal security. It really was a good discussion and I look forward to having more opportunities in the future to discuss these things. Normally, we would not take a class period and discuss just any random old thing, but in a way it did apply and I felt that several of these things were good for all of us to talk through.
You could be in prayer for the school in one specific way. After this semester the school will be losing 3 highschool teachers. 2 only planned on being here for a semester and the other is going off the field and back to the States. Then next year (beginning July 09) There will be probably 4 more positions that will need to be filled. Our God is amazing though and he already has it taken care of for us! It's so exciting to see the way he works! Thanks for your prayers!
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Through the Bog!
Just a short note to let you all know that the bog of Parent/Teacher Conferences is now behind me. (If you're slightly confused please read the previous post). All the nervous wondering was for naught, and everything was a breeze.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
It's Hump Day!
I'm assuming of course that you know what Hump Day is?!?!? For those of you who may not, Hump Day is another name for Wednesday. It acknowledges the fact of having arrived at the middle of the week and just getting over the "hump" of the week. Thursday begins the slide down. For me, tomorrow's slide down includes the big bog of Parent Teacher Conferences! Ahhh! This will be a first for me and I'm a little nervous... you know... biting my nails... stuff like that. :) However, things are going very well in classes and most of the students are doing well too so I don't anticipate any major issues.
I don't know how many of you have been praying for my little Preschool guy, Danny, but he is doing so much better. I thank the Lord for the improvements he's making. He's beginning to speak to me more and more in English and he is obeying really well these days. My new little guy, Isaac, is a gem too. He still speaks mostly in Spanish, but when he wants to get my attention he'll say "Profi" and then jabber off. I love it! As a whole the Pre-K classes have been a learning ground for myself as well as for the kids.
Junior High classes are going well too. The more I prepare for a class the more excited I am about teaching! Acknowledging the Lord... whether it be through showing His Sovereignty in the forming of the United States as we know it today or in comparing the needs of our Spiritual lives to the needs of our physical... is very important to me. My desire is to challenge their hearts as well as their heads.
I don't know how many of you have been praying for my little Preschool guy, Danny, but he is doing so much better. I thank the Lord for the improvements he's making. He's beginning to speak to me more and more in English and he is obeying really well these days. My new little guy, Isaac, is a gem too. He still speaks mostly in Spanish, but when he wants to get my attention he'll say "Profi" and then jabber off. I love it! As a whole the Pre-K classes have been a learning ground for myself as well as for the kids.
Junior High classes are going well too. The more I prepare for a class the more excited I am about teaching! Acknowledging the Lord... whether it be through showing His Sovereignty in the forming of the United States as we know it today or in comparing the needs of our Spiritual lives to the needs of our physical... is very important to me. My desire is to challenge their hearts as well as their heads.
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