Friday, December 4

Today we practiced our dance for 2 hours instead of our normal one because we needed to finish learning the dance. So after recess the girls and I practiced for over an hour and finally got through the whole song and all the moves! Now we just have to work on remembering them all and perfecting the dance. I was so proud! The boys had learned their whole dance by last week already so they were bragging about it, and kept asking, “Did the girls finish their dance yet?” Another funny thing: my girls were looking at the picture of my family during practice and I said, “Did I tell you my parents are coming…and my sister after Christmas?” And they were like , “No! When? When?” So I told them my parents were coming in February and Hilary was coming after Christmas. And they were like, “Don’t tell the boys, it can be a secret just for the girls!” So I agreed; it was so cute! Our schedule was kinda messed up with classes on Friday so during seatwork I had my kids make snowflakes, snowmen or Christmas trees for the classroom since they haven’t had art in a few weeks because of practice. Then the last hour of the day I let the kids use the back wall of the class to put up their artwork. I’m not trying to pawn decorating off onto my kids; I feel like it’s their classroom and I want them to have some ownership of it and look and see their work and be like ‘Yeah that’s mine.’ And they do a really great job with stuff like that and enjoy doing it. It was a pretty chill night at home; we made a great version of tipcio for dinner, hung out, watched ALIAS…2 weeks from today I’ll be home in the US!