Science class!

Mike and I have been teaching Science at the elementary school in the north. We have a seventh and sixth grade class for Science, and we also teach a third grade class English. The kids that are in seventh grade are 11-years-old, the sixth graders are 10, and the third graders are 6, so they are much younger than in America! The Science textbook and vocabulary we teach are all in English, so the kids are very good at reading and comprehending the language! Today in 6th grade we reviewed the words fusion, condensation, sublimation, evaporation, and freezing. We played Pictionary and Around the World. They love games! (Now they expect some kind of game from us hehe!) It's funny because the first day we played a game with them and a couple of the kids were asking us why we weren't reading the book and having them copy things into their notebooks. The school appears to be pretty traditional in that way. Since we have our own classes and never really observed anyone, we just do it our own way. For third grade, we have taught them a few songs and tongue twisters in English. It's almost like gym class too, because we can play games with them outside. I'm soooo not used to teaching 6-year-olds though! This has been a great experience! Time is flying by though! Since Christmas is already next week, we are almost done teaching and will be heading to the coast to do some organic farming soon. It will be sad to say goodbye to everyone here in Quito, especially our awesome host family and the kids!

The sixth graders!

Mike with the third graders!