My first day in the school

The experience for first day in the school have been so far very positive, I am in a class of twenty eight kids 7 - 8 years old (K stage 2 year 3), beside the teacher there is a teacher assistant working most of the time together. The school is a quite big and bright one floor building and it is used by around 450 children. After the teacher introduced me as Mr Estevez, a bit difficult for them to remember, I was observing the work being done and as well taking part on the activities. All together we did lots of things. Learning about how to read the time on the digital clock and on the analog one "It is quarter past five, It is quarter to nine, It is eight forty-five, It is nine fifteen", about Judaism and its cultural aspects, singing a Christmas song, doing some reading. What I found interesting it was the use of a computerized overhead projector in most of the classes, it really does facilitate the teachers work, showing clearly graphics and photos, saving in the amount of photocopies to be done, I can see myself using that technology, as some of you may know my style of working in the classroom, I always try to be as visual as possible.
My mentor teacher Ms. C. it is a woman in her mid forties of Irish background, can't tell much more about her, but so far she has been quite nice and respectful with me, I had a few nice chats with a couple of teacher one in her late 50's (she was living in Gibraltar 40 years ago) and another in her early 20's (her mum comes from Bilbao in the Basque Country), both were quite enthusiastic about practicing their Spanish. And now back to the teacher's home, have some dinner and more chats with the people that probably have lots of stories to tell from their first day.

Peace Love Freedom