In celebration of Valentines Day, my co-teacher and I took the day off from formal instruction and decided to have our kids rotate amongst a few different stations we had set up around the room. As much as I wanted to decorate a mailbox and watch it fill with candy and warm fuzzies (and I guess, you know, have my students do the same), that isn't really a thing they do here. (Also, they don't really need the extra candy) I talked a little bit about Valentines Day and how we celebrate our loved ones in the U.S. (Goal 2, what what!). In preparation I'd downloaded a ton of free worksheets from teacherspayteachers.com but only really used 3 of them. Our focus skill was "utilizing reference texts", so most of the stations had them using a dictionary or thesaurus. Of course we had to have a Valentine Card station, so at that station I had them focusing on different writing skills.
Lastly I just want to take a minute to express my love to everyone back home supporting me. I received 2 wonderful care packages on Valentines Day and was definitely feeling the love. I couldn;t do this without you guys. If you look closely, you can see the goodies you guys have been spending me in some of these photos...
- Gma, thank you for the friendship floss! My host family has been decked out in friendship bracelets and I also used some of it to hang my "Happy V Day" sign
- Donna, thank you for the chalk! Writing in fun colors gets the kids a little bit more interested in making corrections on the board. I'll take what I can get, haha
- Nicole, thank you for sending those thesauruses! I will have pictures up soon of the paint chip project the kids worked on
- Mom, thank you for the crayons! The Math teacher uses them a lot for teaching the kids graphs, but I stole them back for our Valentines Cards ;)