Graduation Day

For graduation day, our kids had to make up some kind of presentation for the parents. Most of the time the classes sing a song, say a verse, or do a drama, but this time we had our kids do something a little bit different. Johan and I are very proud to say that our kids can read and write. They still need alot of help in the coming year, but we are happy to know they can do the basics. We decided to have each student make a card for their parents telling their parents how grateful they were of them. At presentation time, they came up one by one with their parents and read the card in the microphone that was set up. It was adorable! Most of the kids were laughing, and Memo (of course) started to cry when he was reading his card to his mom. He is such a mama's boy :). Here are some pictures throughout graduation day:

Dia de Agua

The last week of school Johan and I did a water day with our first graders. We filled up some water balloons and used some of the buckets in the school to fill up with water. The PreK students had been doing this same idea during the morning so we decided to wait until after lunch until they went back to their rooms. Smart idea, right? NO. The little ones left a huge mud pit for our students which lead to total chaos. My kids were running around like crazy splashing in the mud and throwing it on us. Of course I had fun, and of course I could not stop laughing. I mean how many teachers get to have fun like that with their students. Kristen took some pictures for us and got some great shots of a few kids crying. If you want to see the pictures bigger, you can click on the slideshow.

Photo shoot

My lil first grade babies are getting wayyy too big. Last week of school!

ps If you click on the slideshow, it will take you to the page of the photos to see them bigger.

Los Mavs

Representin' en la RD.

La Cancha de Pancho Mateo. One of my homes away from home.Taken by the lovely Ashley Sienkiel.

My lil Easter Bunnies

Today Johan and I threw an Easter fiesta for our first graders. We played games with them all day, ate cake, and watched a movie. Thanks to Ashley, I got a picture with each of my students in bunny ears:

Chichigua

Usually I write about the village called Chichigua, but this time I am talking about the Spanish word for kite. A few weeks ago Johan decided to make a kite with our first graders. We told them if they behaved throughout the week, we would take them to the Play down the street where there is a huge field to fly the kite. Of course we made sure they were able to...love having that control haha. Our students lovvvved it. They loved making the kite with Johan and going to fly it. Well it lasted for about ten minutes. The kite flew high in the air and then crashed down to the ground. And that's the end of the story :).