Hot Cross Buns

I would have to say that one of the things that I am going to miss the most when I go home is the bakeries. We love to go to the bakery almost every day or other day and get freshly baked yummy treats, we usually try something new every time- sometimes we like what we try and sometimes we don't. I especially love the bakery that we go to, they always greet us with a smile and will almost always give us our food cheaper than they say that the food should cost.

PhotoHunt: Bubbles

This was taken at the Jolin Tsai concert we went to on the beach during Chinese New Year. I'm a huge fan of bubbles and wish that I could have taken some better ones, but she was completely surrounded by bubbles, so pretty and mystical.

A Month of Lunches

I have had a couple of people ask about what we eat at the school and I realized that this might be something that I wanted to remember anyway, so I decided that for my last month here I would take a picture everyday of what we eat. I will take a picture of the table with all the food and then a picture of my bowl after putting it all together. You will always see--main food, soup, and fruit.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Monday, June 7, 2010

Friday, June 4, 2010

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Monday, May 31, 2010

KMI

I wanted you to have a look at what I do every Tuesday during my middle class. Several months ago the school purchased a program called KMI. Each child is given a binder with a list of different boxes that they should work on. Inside the binder they will find a little book and then some kind of activity. They work through the book until they are done and then I will sign it off, assigning them a new box. Under each category of activity there are different levels of difficulty, going from 1 to 12, currently the 3 year olds are 1/2, 4- 4/5, and 5-9/10. When they finish all the boxes in the level they are working on they will go to the next level.

The kids really enjoy doing them, even those that do it everyday after school (remember education is super duper important over here!). Every Tuesday morning when I walk into class they will say "today we do KMI!!"

Sandy

Katherine

Charlie

They each do their activity on a mat, to help keep their stuff all together (I have to check each box before it can be put away every time to make sure that we don't lose pieces)

Half of the boxes

The other part. I pull out the 3 year olds for them, some of them could find their own boxes but it would take too much time so it's just easier for me to find them all.

Rosy

Zoey

Alice P.

Fiona (being good and waving her hand when she was ready to show me the page instead of yelling "teacher, teacher" over and over)

Jimmy

Cindy

Shawn

Iris

Meggy

Sam

Ruby

Max

Pollock Painting

Last week our afternoon theme was art, each day Andrea and I picked a different famous artist, talked a little bit about them and then did a project inspired by them.

Wednesday I chose to Jackson Pollock. The kids had fun flinging their paintbrushes and making pretty pictures...note to those who want to try it, the thinner the paint the better it will work.

*Check out the Jackson Pollock website HERE, move the mouse and click to change colors to create your own cool picture.

It's Official!

It's official..graduation is coming! We took pictures yesterday of the 5 year olds in graduation gowns. That didn't help my nerves at all with getting everything done. But I'll keep pushing forward. (And in case you question me getting anything done because I'm blogging I have already edited 3 of the 4 songs that needed editing today and I figured out the 5 year old standing order--tomorrow we start memorizing the "thank you" speech...wish me luck!)

Weight of Words

Andrea and I attended the Sacrament meeting of an English ward today while we were in Taipei. When the first song was announced I went to pick up the hymnal, I was so surprised at how much it weighed. I had not realized until now how many songs are not available in Chinese, but yet at the same time how many have been made available and that there is the demand for them. I will miss carrying around my hymnal in pinyin and singing in the Choir with the beloved Ji-An Branch.