Day Seven (11/18)

It was a drizzly walk to the DART station, but nothing like my first day. While I was waiting for my train I watched a brave, but crazy man go swimming in his speedo in the Irish Sea! It made me colder just watching him! If you ever decide to go to Ireland, I recomend packing lots of layers because it is always chilly!

I got to school a few minutes earlier and I was able to see their assembly. Everyday for about 7-10min. the entire school (65 students) meet in a classroom and sing songs about God and pray.

In my classroom I was able to read and go through flashcards with individual students. I worked with the senior infants in math and we used cubes to figure out the different ways to get the number 9.

I also read a big picture book called the Pig In The Pond. This is a story they have been working with a few days now and so they know it pretty well. Today we focused on the letter P and each student was given a construction paper cut out letter P. Everytime the students heard the letter P they had to lift their P high into the air! The students are creating their own Pig In The Pond story and finished drawing page 3 of their book today. Some student's pigs actually look like a pig, but other students draw a yellow blob and call it their pig!

After my class got out of school, I joined the third class in Powerscourt Hall (a building the school sometimes uses) and watched them learn how to make christmas chocolate pudding cakes. A few moms volunteer to teach a cooking lesson for all of the grades. The pudding cakes they told me are a Christmas Irish dessert, but they normally have fruits inside instead of just chocolate. Oh and the third class only has 8 students, but 2 were gone!

The rain kept me away from my walk once again this afternoon after school (pretty soon I'll get the guts to tough it out in the rain). My plan was to go the the Silver Tassy, a pub near by, with the other student teachers but all of them canceled on me. So I ate dinner here with my family and am going to watch Shreik 3 with Anna.

Tomorrow I will be going into Dublin after school is done to meet up with my friend Rachel from Saint Mary's! She is studying abroad in England this semester, but is coming to Dublin for the weekend.