Emanuel Anniversary

So, this week is Emanuel's 10th anniversary as a school and we're celebrating it!  Down here, it appears, that all the schools celebrate their anniversary of when they were founded or approved or something like that, I'm not quite sure.  But this year it's more of a big deal, since it's the 10th anniversary.  Yesterday started the festivities with a whole school chapel.  They even bussed the preschoolers and kindergarteners over from their building.  Chapel was awesome!!  It was hilarious to watch the little kids, who don't get chapel on a weekly basis, jumping up and down and singing the songs.  They even somehow managed to convince some older kids to come out and jump with them! :)  I got pictures and video (although I can't figure out how to put video on here, if anyone knows, let me know!), but unfortunately my asthma was acting up, so I wasn't able to participate and enjoy it as much as I wanted to.

Today was the open house at the preschool/kindergarten building and we had a lot of fun. :)  The preschoolers were in groups, rotating with their parents through different activities to show their parents the types of things they do at school, while the kindergarteners were all in their rooms, doing presentations.  English was out in the back patio and I had a cd player and some books.  I played songs and had them dance for their parents.  It was hilarious to watch how the different groups reacted to the songs! :)  Some groups were practically glued to their mom's legs and wouldn't move or do anything, while other groups were singing and dancing with no inhibitions!  When they got tired of that, I had them look for colors in the books, something that we've sort of done in class.  They were really cute, but unfortunately  my camera was in the other building so I didn't get any pictures!  With the kindergarteners, I had them sing a song and name animals, which they did quite well.  I was so proud of all of my kids today!!! :)

Now I have to focus on the older kids, who have their open house on Friday.  I'll be extremely surprised if I end up having a voice after Friday!  I just have 2 classes at the main building, 2nd and 3rd grade, but I'm also helping the chemistry/biology teacher with his presentation, since he wants to do it bilingually, but doesn't speak English. :)  He chose one of the high schoolers who's good at English and she's going to do all the English speaking, but I've had to help her translate and practice pronunciation.  It's been fun to work with her and get to know some of the high schoolers better.  It should be an interesting week, this week!! :)