Thursday, March 20, 2014

I spent the first part of the morning finishing up what I needed to finish for my Student Teacher Work Sample while the students were still in their extended homeroom class.  Thankfully, I got that turned in and done with.  The 9^th Grade class did a cool new review game in which they were divided up into groups.  There were four sets of review questions that were cut along the piece of paper to make a grass-skirt looking paper.  The students had to come up and tear off a review question, take it back to their group, answer it, bring it to the teacher to be verified, and then either take it back and correct it or get a new question.  The kiddos seemed to enjoy that review game.  When we were done with classes, Katie’s parents and grandparents picked us up in a tourism van with their guide Arturo and we were off for Guanacaste.  After a lunch stop near Puntarenas and 4 1/2 -5 hours in the van, we were at the lovely Casa Surfside beach house in Playa Potrero.  Once we were there, I met Katie’s cousin Yvonne and the family friend Kathy.  Both of them were very nice and fun to be around.  We all watched the beautiful sunset on the porch and then went off to dinner.  We ate at a neat little place near the beach and had a grand ole time.  It was a great first day of the mini-vaca.