My Class

Bottom left to right:
Cadiz Ernesto, Analisa, Ysmerlin
Top left to right:
Luis David, Nelson Paul, Natalie, and Tara
I got a new student today named Adriana.
This is my 5th grade homeroom.  In the morning the students split up into proficiency groups for intensive English lessons. I have 4 of these same kids and Luis Rafael, Shaylin, and Omar.  Just to give you an idea, we are working on capitalization, punctuation, complete sentences, and pronouns.  They definitely need the most help with writing.  School-wide there is a huge range of language ability: some kids came at the beginning of the year not knowing a word of English. For that matter, some of them aren't even literate in their own language yet!
The maximum enrollment per class is 12.  Our building is actually an old disco and the room sizes are pretty small.  The school desperately needs a new building, which they had hoped to be in already.  The A/C hasn't been working properly, so you can imagine how hot it is (especially when the dress code mandates long pants for the kids)!
So far I have really enjoyed being back in the classroom and working with these kids.  They are really fun to be around ; plus, for some reason they think I'm only 26 years old.   'Ta bien!:)