My Last Math Classes

This morning the girls and I headed off to the toddler house while Noah took off for the medium boys house.  We all met in the comedor for breakfast.  Noah is eating more and more of his breakfast - and I can only assume because he's out of money to buy "extra stuff" at the store.

After breakfast, I went back to the room with Noah to get ready for school.  I got all of my books and notes in the bag and then sewed a pair of pants that I plan to leave down here, which had a small rip in them.  Mrs. Miller sent Kaylyn with some iodine and a big bandage so that I could clean Noah's back.  He slipped on a scooter last week and scratched up his back.  Most of it has scabbed over and looks like it's healing okay, but there is one patch that is rather large and looks as if it may be getting infected.  I was surprised that Noah didn't even flinch when I rubbed 2 pads of iodine on the spot.  We got him all patched up and he left to go work with Chino.

Today was the last day of math classes for me to teach.  The first 2 hours of the day were spent in Bachillerato 2 finishing up the lesson on limits.  There are still quite a few students who are confused (and rightly so with only meeting once a week for just an hour and 20 minutes), but I am hoping that they have enough notes to study from before their mid-term exam comes.  After working with them, I headed back to the room to use the open hour to prep for the other math class and also to make an answer key for the homework I gave to Bachillerato 2.  When recess was over, I headed back down to Bachillerato 1 to wrap up parabolas with them.  Many students in that class said they they were just beginning to understand everything that goes along with the study of parabolas (vertices, intercepts, quadratic formula, domain, range, graphing, etc), and I'm sure they have enough notes to study from for their test in the next couple of weeks.  I headed to the teachers break room to finish up the answer key for Bachillerato 2 and then took the math text books and all of my notes to Profe Ramon.  I made some suggestions on where to go next with Bachillerato 2, and reminded him that he had all of my notes from the past 3 years, so if he follows that as a guide, he should be able to get the students through the remainder of the book.

I only had about 15 minutes until lunch, so I spent it in the special needs yard, chatting with Sofia and Coco and a few others that were there.  I met up with Alina, Noah and Kaylyn in the comedor for lunch, and then helped walk the toddlers back to their house to put them down for naps.  When we came back we began to gather the clothes that the kids and I would not be taking back, and bagged it up to give away.  We put the smallest suitcase inside of mine, so taking our suitcase total from 5 down to 4, and rearranged some of the items.  That small suitcase is almost completely full of coffee (YUM!) and then solid dish soap to last us through the year.  In the small gaps between the small suitcase and the larger one, we stuffed some clothes that will go back to the States, but that we won't need until after we get home.  That suitcase is now locked and won't be opened until we get to Wisconsin (unless customs decides to open it up and check it out).  I am now sharing a suitcase with Kaylyn and Alina and Noah have a bunch of odds and ends (extra dish soap, candies, etc) in their suitcases.  I'm sure the 3 remaining suitcases to fill will still have a lot of extra space in them, but unfortunately none of them will fit into another, so we can't consolidate any more.

Alina and Kaylyn headed back to the baby house to get up the toddlers and I headed to the grandecitas house to drop off Kaylyn's bag of clothes.  We will have to see how many girls are wearing Kaylyn's clothes tomorrow and on Saturday morning!

After supper, Alina and I took our clothes to the special needs house.  We came back with NOTHING - which means we did not have to go to other houses to give the remaining clothes away - they wanted it all.

We decided to stay in tonight and watch a movie together as a family on Netflix.  The power had went out, but since the cell phone towers were still working, we were able to do it.  We watched a comedy and all had a bunch of good laughs!  What an enjoyable way to spend one of our last nights here as a family!