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Tue
10 Apr
2012 by

Spring Break Linky Party

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MS H. is having a fun linky party at her blog and I’m joining.
Click on the picture to know what we are doing during our Spring breaks and enjoy yours.
I’m in the middle of my Spring break. I had many things to do on my list, but there is no way I can do everything. So here is what I have done so far:
I went to celebrate some Easter days with friends, we went to the countryside and eat barbecue. We have been doing this for some days… That’s why I can’t do don’t want to do other things.
We also watched a football match (or what Americans call soccer).
And these are the things I still HAVE to do:
Planning for my classroom.
Organizing my closet.
What do I always leave the fun part at the end?
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I’ve been tagged!

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Here are the rules:
1. You must post the rules and link your tag back to the person who tagged you.
2. Answer the questions of the person who tagged you.
3. Create 10 questions of your own for others to answer.
4. Tag 10 people and link it with your post.
Here are the questions that Krista from The Second Grade Super Kids sent me:
1. What is your favorite color to paint your nails? I usually don’t paint my nails, but when I do I like them black.
2. Do you have anything that you collect in your classroom to display (ie. I have an obsession with sock monkeys!) Do plastic containers count? I could easily have more than 50… I like postcards. I save all the postcards the students send me every year. Love those memories.
3. What is something you do every year for open house at your school (ours is coming up and I would love ideas!)? We don’t have Open House in Spain… I would love having one. I once read about a teacher that created a game so kids and parents could discover the classroom together. I would like doing something like that.
4. Do you have a pet….do share!? No, I don’t have pets. I live in a small apartment.
5. What time do you usually wake up and get to school on a typical school day? I get up al 7:30 and leave home about 8:30 and walk to school. I live about 25 minutes walking from my school. We start at 9:00.
6. What did you dress up as on the last Halloween that you dressed up? We don’t really celebrate Halloween in Spain. It started a few years ago. But my last disguise in school for last Mardi Grass was as a diver. We were celebrating water year in our school. And there is no way I share that photo!
7. What is something silly that you are afraid of? (I am afraid of fish…silly right? or so I am told!) I ‘m scared of birds. It’s quite silly… I shouldn’t see that Alfred Hitchcock film.
8. What is your favorite part of working at your school, besides the students in your classroom? I am in the Theater  group and also in the library. I could not decide because I love drama and books.
9. What tv show do you can you absolutely not miss each week? We have a programme in Spain called Spanish people around the world (that would be the translation) I imagine myself living abroad every time we watch it.
10. What is the #1 thing you hope your students leave your classroom remembering at the end of the year? The peaceful environment we have when we all learning together and helping each other. I love that humming in the classroom when working in small groups.
I’m going to send this to all my friends in Global Teacher Connect: (I’m cheating because there are 13 people in my list, so feel free to answer or not).
Heidi Raki – Raki’s Rad Resources – Morocco 

Ms. Nyla – Nyla’s Crafty Teaching – Trinidad & Tobago

Amanda Myers – A Special Kind of Classroom 

Michelle Walker – Creative Classroom – South Africa 

Sara Svatos – La Professora of the Stress Free Spanish Teacher – The Netherlands

Arlene Sandberg – LMN Tree – United States

Yvonne Crawford – Miximinder – France

Melissa Green – Dilly Dabbles – United States

Michelle Lundy – Making it as a Middle School Teacher – United States 

Pamela Ostler – Chalk & Slate – Switzerland  

Krystal Mills – Lessons from the Middle – Canada

The Resourceful Teacher – United States  

Trish Hoppy – The Reading Owl – Phillipeans

My Questions are:

  1. Where are you from?
  2. Where do you teach?
  3. Which subject and grade do you teach?
  4. What would you do if you weren’t a teacher?
  5. What do you wear to school?
  6. What did you do during spring break?
  7. Where would you like to travel next Summer?
  8. Imagine that you earn some kind of School Lottery and you can buy anything for your school/classroom. What would you get?
  9. Which is your favorite store for teaching materials?
  10. Which is your favorite store for clothes?
Sat
07 Apr
2012 by

I’m on Spring break, more about Pascua in Spain

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I’ve been some days far away from my computer because I’m on Easter break.
You have been really nice on all your comments so I wanted to tell you a bit about Pascua in Spain.
If you have visited Sevilla during Easter you may know about ‘Procesiones de Semana Santa’. But I’m not going to tell you about that, because this is a teaching blog and I’m not in Sevilla. 
I’m going to write about what kids DO during this holiday.
We spend lots of time outside, we get together with family or friends and go for picnics to the mountain or the beach. We have lunch together and kids play all day. After that, we eat MONA. You can find lots of different types of monas: big, small, with boiled egg, with chocolate egg, without egg…
You can eat your mona with, boiled egg,  raw easter sausages or chocolate.

After the snack kids sing some traditional Easter songs and play jumping ropes or kites. I hope You enjoyed reading! Have a good spring-break!