School Days

Throughout the school year I have taken quite a few pictures during the school days... most of them were for the yearbook but I thought I'd share them on my blog too. It has been a great year and I have learned a lot about being a teacher. My students are wonderful, even the challenging ones. I am constantly amazed at how loving kids are... they never seem to run out of love to give. Even the long, exhausting days have highlights of laughter and fun. Here are some pictures from school days over the last few months:

1st & 2nd grade reading time

Urara

Nene

Jed

Yuto

Kouga & Faith in art class making Valentine's Day cards

Lee & Elena in music class

Rimi, Mona, & AC - 5th & 6th grade girls can be quite silly. :)

Susumu

High Schoolers using the computer lab

PreK & Kindergarten boys

High Schoolers NOT hanging out in the hallway (they're not supposed to hang out there)

5th & 6th grade girls getting ready for P.E.

5th & 6th grade boys getting ready for P.E.

teaching music to the 4th graders

leading worship in chapel

1st & 2nd graders in music class

practicing hand motions for the spring concert

Ayana & Urara

teaching preschool music - translation: dancing around for 40 minutes to music.

Dominic & Yuuta

preschoolers practicing the hand motions for the spring concert

me with the preschoolers

PreK girls - they're a spunky, independent, stubborn bunch... got to love them! :)

handing out sparkly music note stickers to the Kindergartners who were good in music class

Me with my High School Journalism & Yearbook class

Spirit Week

Spirit week is always a fun time... I remember getting into it in high school and it was fun to see that excitement in my students. It is fun to be a teacher for spirit week... you can be as crazy as you want and no one cares. And if your students think you're crazy, well... they probably already do. :) It was a fun week full of crazy outfits and school spirit.

"Multiplicity Monday" - it is like twin day but the goal is to get as many people to match as possible

I joined the high school group for this day. we made t-shirts and wore jeans (timothy had already changed for P.E. in this picture).

Milena & Mana - probably the most exact "twins" of the day

Kiana, Risa, Elena, Kai, & Mai

5th grade boys - Ryota, Kai, Susumu, & William

5th & 6th Grade Girls - Mona, Rio, Mona, Rimi, AC, and Ayame

Monica & Carolyn

The largest group of "twins" was the Kindergartners who wore black and jeans.

"Tropical Tuesday"

PreK & Kindergartners

3rd graders

4th graders

Mona & Rio - 5th grade

Tomomi

Kanon & Jueri

Office ladies - Junko & Chikako

my tropical outfit

"Wacky Wednesday"

funny story - I was worried that I was overdoing it for "Wacky Wednesday" because the information sheet just said crazy hair and socks, but when I came out of my room to go to school Kristen was dressed almost identically. We both had striped shirts, mismatched earrings, crazy hair, shorts over leggings, and crazy socks/shoes. We just laughed and hoped that we didn't get into a car accident on the way to school. People all day said that they thought we coordinated on purpose.

Leo and Izzy

5th & 6th grade girls

5th grade boys

3rd graders

2nd grade

Carolyn had a pretty wacky outfit

Lauren's wacky hair

"Character Day"

I was Pocahontus for character day. I can't remember what Mr. Elofson said he was.

Odai

Rino & Aika

these guys were my favorite for the day - Casey & Cody

Kristen was Pippy Long Stocking for the day

1st & 2nd grade girls

Monica dressed as Minnie Mouse

"Color Day" - Each class had a specific color for the day. The goal was to see how much of that color they could wear as a class.

3rd grade - red

4th grade - blue

5th & 6th grade - brown

PreK & Kindergarten - Yellow

1st & 2nd grade - white