Since Jill's classroom was going to pretty much be doing spelling tests all moring, I decided to go check out one of the special education classrooms. This school has about 5 different classes that are designated special education, which I found to be quite a lot ! The one that I was in had about 8 kids in either kindergarten or 1st grade, all of which were diagnosed with some degree of Autism. I thought they were all great, and it made me wonder if I should have specialized in special education. One of the kids I was told didn't talk unless he thought it suited him, but apparently talking to me suited him just fine. He brought up a puzzle and started to name all of the animals that were on it, then not to much later he brought me a monkey and started to rub it on my face. H ewas too cute, I am hoping to be able to go back to that classroom before I leave.
After recess it was time for me to go back to the class that I have normally been in and do a little mini-lesson on where I am from. I read them the book "M is for Mitten", passed around some postcards, and the petoskey stone that I brought to give to my host teacher. While I was reading the book I stopped to explain the different things that it was talking about and was able to relate some of them back to familiar things that they could relate to here. I also got lots of hands up with different questions, some of which were relevant and many were not, but thats ok, I think they still enjoyed learning a little more about me and where I'm from (plus I sound funny lol).
On the calender in the staff room for today it says "Please Use Bins" which is code for PUB! haha They apparently use this phrase when talking about going out to have a drink after work or what they did on the weekends, just in case there are students around. So, after school today we all met up at a place called The Mean Fiddler to get drinks and of course WEDGES! I think I might have to bring home some sweet chili sauce :) At one point while we were sitting there, there was a man that came over to sell raffle tickets to win a meat tray. Jillian told the man that if she bought tickets she had to win because she NEVER wins thing, and low and behold she had the winning ticket! The man said that there was over $50 worth of meat on the tray, it was quite massive lol.
Once everyone had eaten they all pretty much just left, so I guess it was time for us to head back home as well. The rest of the night was pretty chill and we all sat around watching "The Sweetest Thing" for a while, until we all gradually headed off to bed. I think that I stayed up a while to skype with Madre which is always a nice way to end the night :)
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