7:30 – Leave Antigua for Itzapa (where the school is). Approx. travel time 40 minutes

I have two 4th grade classes, with 20+ students each.  Their age range is between 10-12; with two outliers at 15 and 18 respectfully).  The first class is in the morning 9-12:00 and the afternoon class is 2-4:00.

I cover 2 subjects each day, usually Spanish (think “Language Arts”) & Math.  One day a week, I’ll cover Science or Geography, and handwriting.  On Fridays, I give a test, play a few educational games and then, as a school we do Arts activities.

The kids who come to our school in the morning, generally go to public school in the afternoon.  So, the exposure they get with us really helps them out in their other school, which seem to use, as their primary instructional strategy, copying text from the board and answering questions.

We usually arrive back in Antigua around 5:00.  Most nights I will either have an hour long Spanish lesson, Salsa lesson, or both before dinner at 7:00.  Antigua is such a charming place that it’s hard to resist not meeting up with people for drinks and such after dinner.  After all, this is a vacation, isn’t it?