Wednesday, May 15th

On May 15^th, we woke up and went to school as usual, catching the bus as 6:00. Today the first grade teacher was absent so the director, a volunteer, and one of the high school girls Charlin taught the class. To start the day off I reviewed with the kids the shapes, and numbers in English. When we finished that the kids moved on to Spanish dictation. They reviewed all the letter sounds such as ma,me,mi,mo,and mu. In the middle of this exercise the English teacher came in so the kids put away their work and started English for ½ an hour. When they finished with English they went back to dictation where they had to combine the different letter sounds to make the words and write them into their notebooks. We then moved on to math where the kids practiced writing the numbers from 1 to 100. After math the kids had recess and snack time. The kids had fun doing math today because every time they would finish copying the section they would get to shout goodbye as the director erased it. After recess the kids had natural science. In natural science the kids talked about different plants and what they can be used for. They acted out eating the fruit and acted out making a salad. The kids then drew pictures of the different foods and had to write the names of the things next to it. When we got home we relaxed and took a shower. Luis then took us into town to see the mass celebrating the patron saint of La Ceiba, San Isidro. The mass was huge with tons of people. When the mass was over there was fireworks shot off from the middle of the street and it was like a mini carnival. Lined along the street were different games you could play and food you could eat.