Thursday, June 22, 2006

playground games

so, i´ve figured out that when we're playing tag, what you yell is "tenta", not "trienta". i still have no idea what it means. also, i figured out that the london bridge game is called "campanita de oro", which i think is "little gold bell". we played that again today, as well as policia y ladrones, which is where i'm a policeperson and all the little girls are ladrones (robbers) and i have to run after them and when i catch them i put them in the house, which was a specific spot on the wall. then, when i'd leave to go catch someone else, all the ladrones in the casa would run away. basically, i couldn't win. it was fun though.


after el receso, we all went back in the classroom, and continued on with a color game that yosta had devised that the girls really liked (we did color in english today). seña yoli didn't come back for a really long time again, and most of the girls ran around all over the school like crazy people because they don't really listen to me. then the teacher stopped in for like 5 minutes to write the letter "q" on the board and explain it to the girls, then she told me she had to go to another class and would i mind watching the little hellians (well, that wasn't her exact wording, but it should have been). i kindly obliged, and off she went. some of the girls were really good and were really trying hard to copy the letters and words correctly, but others, for example doris and lorenza, were more interested in running around wrecking havoc. i let them, because it was too much trouble to go get them from outside, and out there they weren't disturbing anyone who was trying to work. also, strawberry shortcake, the cartoon character, is really popular here.


next week the school doesn't meet because of teacher's day, which is a national holiday, so i might try to sign up to take language classes for a week, because i know i could improve and i don't know what i would do with myself for a week without some sort of regular daily activity. i have to think about it. also, i think i'm going to try to teach the girls "heads up seven up" because that's a nice quiet sitting down game.


now i'm going to xelapages to post pictures, anna took some more today. feliz dia!

Posted by Sarah @ 12:23 PM