The English day that we had on Tuesday was really successful. We had a second grade student come up and give an opening speech about the whole English day experience. After that we had two younger students come up and ask riddles in English for the other students to guess what they were. The seventh grade students then came up on the stage and helped us teach the school how to sing Jingle Bells in English. I really enjoyed seeing everyone have such a good time during the English day. During the individual class time I was with first grade. We made Christmas cards for the students to send home to their parents for Christmas.
Today during school we helped the other English teachers take inventory of all of the books they had in their office! It was a very long process, but I think they all really enjoyed the help that we gave them. I enjoyed discussing what some of the books were about that we were writing down. We discussed ways that we think the books could be incorporated into the English program at the school.
I am so excited because we are going to start traveling to different areas of Costa Rica soon. We are currently planning a trip to go see Arenal which is a volcano that is still active. After that we are going to go to Monte Verde and participate in a canopy tour! We are very lucky that we are having such help from our host families in planning our adventures.
The decorations we made for English day.
One of the second graders and I practicing riddles for English day.
A picture of a label we made for English day.