Week two at Craighouse
Beginning to feel a lot more settled and at home both at Craighouse school and in Santiago. After a very eventful weekend we were keen and ready to get back to work. As we had just come back from a long weekend the children were all bonkers! This made getting any work done a real challenge. However as this was the day of the England football match I was excused from my afternoon lessons to go to the dining hall to watch the game on the projector. 5 Brits surrounded by students that just so happened to be Columbia supporters made for a real atmosphere!
The next two days that followed were like any regular school day with no surprises. However these next few days were when I began to teach to my new class. I started with Maths on the Thursday, simple word problems and learning mental maths tricks to help the pupils. Later on Thursday the rain started to pour...Now at home we are used to this on the regular, however, in Chile it only rains 10 days out of the year! So when it rains the Chileans deal with it much how us Brits deal with snow...with mad panic. We went home not knowing whether we would be able to make it to school in the morning!
Friday comes and we make it to school without having to swim through any puddles. This weather also brought the students crazy and mad sides back out, so made for a very interesting day! Today was one of my students last day at Craighouse. So she arrived in non school uniform and all the other children had brought some sort of food or drink for us to have a party! But after all the fun and games came the teaching and learning (not quite as fun). I got to teach a readers workshop today which went soo well, all the children were engaged and then continued to use their new found skills throughout the day! RESULT!
Another enjoyable, and successful week at Craighouse. Lets see what this weekend has in store for us!
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