Teacher Setz

Materials: - Glitter - Newspaper - Paint or markers - Pencil - Glue - Tape - Construction paper - Scissor - Stapler Steps: 1) Roll up a newspaper sheet to make the base and decorate it with either paint or markers. 2) Draw or trace 2 stars on construction paper and cut them out. 3) Staple the stars on the wand base. 4) Put glue on the bottom of the wand base and dip it in the glitter.

Welcome to the hurricane season everyone!!! Helena did not cause us any harm, just the needed showers for the plants. Isaac however got us a day off, Thursday, nice day with lots of sun and wind. Unfortunately the Friday it had showers all through the day and we had to work. My classroom is still LEAKING, so we had a rain party in there.  Luckily the only trouble Isaac caused was some flooding and some big wind gusts throughout the days. We also had a family whom 4 year old died because of the candy drugs that are circulating Sint Maarten at the moment. (see picture below) This is very tragic and after hearing this news, I finally could make sense what his brother kept telling me. "Jufrouw, my brother died because he ate to much candy." VERY SAD and heartbreaking. Now let's go the the good news for the week, we finally finished the crafts for the theme. Crowns and magic wands. and they came out good. unortunalty not all child...

This week was again full of surprises as a 4 year old started on Monday and another 4 year old on Tuesday in afternoon school. Yes we have 8 students in afternoon school at the moment. But I got a call from a father that wants to register his daughter in the afternoon school too. So by next week we will be having not 8 but 9 students.  Luckily we have some connections and where able to get a high school student whom is doing care in school to come and help out a little in the day to day running's so that I can focus more on the swimming lessons on Mondays and Wednesdays. I must say that I truly love teaching Dutch as a foreign language, which I really did not think at the moment that I was told that they where going to change my position. The grade 1's finally finished their crown and we are ready to hold a dress up day for next week. On Thursday all the cycle 1 teachers had a science workshop. I was suppose to continue with cleaning up the resource room, bu...

It has been awhile since I updated the blog. But here I am again to let you all know what an amazing and terrible time I had these last two weeks. So here goes. The second week of school the cycle one Dutch teacher and I decided to clean up the resource room and make space for all Dutch materials. We started out well on Monday, but it was terrible dusty and moldy in there. And of course I got so caught up in rearranging and cleaning that I spend 5 hours straight in that room (without ventilation since the airco was no working and windows could not open.) Well in the night I started having difficulties to breed and my head started to hurt really bad. So I was sick of the mold inhalation that my doctor confirmed on Wednesday. Luckily I felt good enough to go back to work on Wednesday. For the rest of the week I managed to work for half an hour in the resource room and then an hour in my class. The third week I finally started with my lessons. It was an adjustment, but I really l...