End of the School Year
The end of
the school year is quickly approaching! At this point, we have around six and a
half weeks of school left until we go home.
We are
preparing to celebrate Family Day, where the kids and their families come to
have fun, eat, and do activities. This year the theme is pirates, and the kids
are going to be able to go on a treasure hunt. There will also be a face
painting station where a fellow American and I will paint the kids’ faces with
nautical themes, like putting on an eye patch and drawing a shark, and a gross
motor activity where the kids will be able to move around and jump.
With the
after-school activities, I am doing two days of craft activity where we
will make things like paper bracelets, liquid chalk, and birdfeeders, one day
of “Cirque” where the students are able to play with things found in the circus
(for example, they will learn to juggle, balance a stick on their hand, spin a
plate on a stick, and slackline). I then have a cooking activity where we make
recipes!
In terms of
teaching, I am mostly preparing the older students to take their English
evaluations that are required by France. These evaluations range from spelling
to understanding classroom instructions to reading to memorizing a short poem
in English. With the younger maternelle kids, we are learning about food
vocabulary, and we have a song that they will learn. We will also play a lot of
flashcard games that they like and bingo. At the end of the year we will have a
breakfast and they will be able to use a lot of the vocabulary that we learned!
Thanks for
reading!
