Posts Tagged: children

30 Days of 30. Day 3. (part two)

June 04, 2013

If you read part one , you’ll already know that I’m on vignettes of highlight moments. 3. When I returned to the main room with the flautists, I got the entire room to pay attention to me (voluntarily) by saying: “If you can hear my voice, touch your head. If you can hear my voice, touch your ear. If you can hear my voice…” and modeling it for them. Eventually, all the kids joined in and were quiet enough that neither …

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30 Days of 30. Day 3. (part one)

June 04, 2013

My entire day yesterday was spent in rest to prepare for my planned 30 days of 30 celebration last night. Ready for it? I attended a good friend’s elementary school band and orchestra concert AND I helped tune/work with the beginning and advanced flautists. Doesn’t sound like it would require a full day’s prep, but let me tell you, the prep was absolutely necessary. Here’s the scene I walked into: A confusing parking lot … I was so focused on …

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Celebrating the stranger

October 29, 2012

Yesterday I shared pictures from Friday morning, when St. Francis Coll held another assembly to celebrate our time with the classes during the week.  Before the celebration, we joined our classes from the day before; the students who had gone to the nursery tagged along with us.  I sat in with the sixth grade; unlike the other classes, when the bell rang for recess, they had to stay inside—apparently there had been more trouble between the boys and the girls.  …

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Teasers

October 27, 2012

Today’s day was too full to format my post. So, here are some pictures as teasers for tomorrow’s post!

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El Sexto

October 23, 2012

As I walked into the classroom with Juana, all I heard was gibberish: a word here, a word there, but mostly lots of noise as the kids settled into their desks. The teacher wore jeans and a t-shirt and she quickly established order: Literature was first. The students took out these mini notebooks that looked almost like my old composition books, complete even with stickers and drawings/colors. Before the teacher began to teach, she gave the kids a talking to– …

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