Noah's 1st Ever in 5 Years!

    This morning when we headed to breakfast, Oscar had oatmeal on the menu.  We seem to have been rotating between oatmeal, arroz con leche (warm rice with milk), and another mixture that I have not been able to define yet.  But the main part of this story is that never, ever in his history of being here, has Noah eaten breakfast quickly.  He has a difficult time mostly with the textures of the warm cereal that is served each day.  In prior (non-COVID) years, he would eat 2 or maybe 3 spoons of breakfast and then pass the rest on to the boys whose table we shared.  Sometimes he wouldn't even take a bit and just eat the moon pie!  Anyway, this morning Noah at everything in the bowl and more quickly than Kaylyn, Jaden or me.  I am not sure if he was just starving by that point because nothing was really different about this bowl of oatmeal...but I was blown away by how fast he not only ate but finished off the bowl!

   After breakfast, Noah went with Moncho and Kaylyn headed to the Toddler House.  Jaden went back to the Team House with me because Alexander (who he will be with the majority of the time) had off today and so we arranged for Jaden to work with Mike, but the shop didn't open until 8am.  I spent an hour looking over and refining the lesson I had created for the Math 11 (Calculus) course that I would be teaching this morning.  When Jaden headed to the shop to work with Mike, I took off for the school to teach their first lesson on derivatives (constants, linear functions, and exponents).  After the lesson, I headed back to the Team House to work on the lesson for tomorrow's Math 10 (Algebra 2 / PreCalculus) course which would be on polynomial functions (asymptotes, intercepts, domain, range, graphing).  Although the Calculus topics are still pretty fresh in my brain from 3 years ago, it has been a bit longer since I have taught Algebra 2...so the lesson took me a bit more to create.

   The kids and I met up for lunch in the Comedor and then Kaylyn and I walked back with the toddlers to the Toddler House in order to help put them down for a nap.  They all nap in the same room on some large shared mats which is interesting.  I remember years ago when I saw this for the first time wondering how in the world they could get all of these children to sleep so quickly, together and at the same time!  I am guessing the older toddlers make an example for the younger ones coming in and since that's how it's been for years, it works well.  I will try to remember to get a picture of this for an upcoming post.

   While the toddlers slept, Kaylyn and I headed back to the Team House.  During this time Kaylyn generally takes a nap as well, while I tend to work through the math book carefully noting the mathematical words in Spanish that I need to remember.  Many of them are cognates, meaning that they are very similar in English (like sum is suma, or multiply is multiplicar, etc).  But there are some that are a bit different, so I want to be sure I am using the correct words in Spanish.

   We met up with the boys at the Comedor for supper and then headed back to the Team House.  Both boys showered since there were fairly dirty from their days work while I read before turning in for the night.