Sofia Somewhere

Almost three months overdue (and I had another long trip between then and now), but back to my Semana Santa in Guatemala posts. :) After Antigua, we headed to el Lago de Atitlán (Lake Atitlán) . I had heard so much of the lake's beauty (most every blog entry and tourist guide book will quote Aldous Huxley calling it "The most beautiful lake in the world," and here I am quoting him too), and was so excited to finally see the lake for myself. Lake Atitlán Truth be told, when we arrived after noon (despite leaving Antigua at 8:30 in the morning; Holy Week traffic perhaps), it was cloudy/foggy, and we couldn't see much of the lake. We had a quick lunch at one of the mirador restaurants along  Calle del Lago before checking in our hotel. Lunch after being stuck in the shuttle for four hours Since it was quite overcast, we decided to just walk around Panajachel a bit and get some errands done. We changed some cash at the bank, bought tickets for Tikal...

School has been going by fast, and we just ended our second bimestre last week. The students have been up to a lot in class, and outside of class too. my fourth graders who love to smile At the start of the bimestre my fourth graders started practicing the simple present tense, and they worked on making simple story books. We also read together a book about "Show and Tell," and I consequently had a show and tell activity in class. I had the students bring in their favorite thing, and they had to share something about it with the rest of the class. Show and Tell One afternoon after we had done a quiz, we had about half an hour of free time left before the day was over. I let my students play whatever they wanted to. The kids love having free time, and things can get crazy and noisy. One of my students came up to me and said he was bored, so I told him that he could go read a book. He said he didn't have one, so I asked him if he wanted to borrow on...