Monday 10.17.11

After lots of tea and sleep, my voice is feeling much better! Thanks for praying :)
This is the start of my 9th week of teaching! Ahh :) It's going by soo fast! The days are super crazy with teaching and nights are busy with grading, sorting papers and planning lessons for the next day...but all the little hugs definitely make it worth it!! It's SO fun to see my kids learning new things. And they love to sing! One of my favorite parts of the day is singing Bible songs with them..."1, 2, 3 - Jesus Loves Me!" is their all-time favorite. We sing it almost every day lol
The sad news of the week...my camera is officially broken :( So, no pictures for a little while. Temperatures were back in the 90s today. Missing fall a little bit, but enjoying the sunshine :)
Hope you have a GREAT week!

Laryngitis :(

Woke up with NO voice this morning...made for a very interesting day of teaching! lol Please pray that it comes back soon & that God will give me the strength to finish this week strong for Him :) Thankful that "He is the strength of my heart and my portion forever!"

Learning our ABC's :)

Ana Sofía :) 

David working hard!!

This is Rut...she is SO sweet!

Jonathan...this picture pretty much says it all lol

Joshua...i love his big brown eyes! They're cuter when he's smiling tho :)

Elisama and Melva - double trouble!

Ready to work!! Samuel and Saúl

Xareny - she's a hard worker and compliments me on my earrings and hair every day!! lol She's cute!

Ruben and Hillary

More double trouble! Jonathan and Israel

"Meet" some of my 3rd graders!

Alexia got a 100 on her "fruits" test :) yay!!!!

Iñaki - loves 'posing' for pictures ;) He is one of my hardest working students tho...straight A's!!

This is Dannaely! She LOVES to talk and it is so fun to see her start putting words together and speaking in English sentences :) The other day she asked me where I was from. I told her New York. This was her quick reply: "Mexico is pretty. New York no is pretty!"

Elda :) The sentence was "My favorite fruit is ___" She had four! 

Mahivelyne Mireles Fiero Llaziri Judit Zilbestie...yes, that really is her name! Poor girl having to learn to spell all that :/ Four/five letter English spelling words should be no problem lol Her name in my class? May :)

Alfredo and May playing their new favorite game "Doggie, Doggie, Where's Your Bone?"

Alex...another one of my super hard working boys! And always smiling too :)

Noemi...my favorite fruit is apples!

Sebastian jumping in on another picture of Dannaely. He is def the class clown! 

Psalm 121:1-2

The view on my walk to school...daily reminder of where my help comes from!

100 por favor maestra :)

Sifting through the 86 spelling tests that I had to grade this morning, I found this note written on one test "me voy a sacar un 100 por favor maestra sino mi papa si me saco 100 va a compra una mandolina." Translation something like I am going to get a 100 please teacher, because my dad is going to buy me a mandolin if I get a 100!