Happy Spring! :)

Hi everyone! Here's some pictures from my week of teaching Easter a couple weeks ago. I had so much fun giving my kids an Easter egg hunt, and was also really excited that I was able to share the Easter story with them...

On Easter Sunday, Claudia and I, along with 2 other ELI teachers went out to lunch with some of the university students from our campus.

Here are my kids, ready for the egg hunt and bursting at the seams with energy...

READY... SET...

GO!!!!!

Here I am with one of my girls, Wendy. She's always smiling and so full of energy and expression! She will run up yelling, "Miss Allison, Miss Allison!!" to give me a hug each time I come to class.


And here she is again.... tell me, how can you not love this mischievious face?!

I hid eggs for the homeroom teachers in each of my classes as well. Here I am with Miss Chen, the homeroom teacher for class 3.3. She's trying to learn a bit of English from my classes, but its amazing how much you can communicate without language. We both share a love for pictures and kids! :)

Keep looking!

Hope found her egg! She is a sweet girl who loves to do anything she can to help out in the classroom- pass out papers, help other students. I love her name..

Gathering up the eggs- I couldn't have asked for a more beautiful day!

Go Daniel!! If you haven't noticed already, about half of my posed pictures include Chinese people of all ages in this pose--2 fingers held up are supposed to look like a "V" for victory.

Bobby checks out his egg while David overlooks...

There's something about this picture that I just really like. It somehow brings the day to life.

Although egg dyeing in a class of 3rd graders would've been disastrous, I still found a way to incorporate some egg decorating fun into their new vocab. words: striped, plaid, and polka dot.

Best of all, after teaching my kids about secular Easter traditions, I shared the real Easter story through a kids book and Easter story cartoon. Then they had a chance to recall the story themselves on a worksheet...

I am amazed by the depth of understanding 8 year olds can have of truth that is communicated to them in their second language.

I have also enjoyed doing a drama club for ten 5th graders once a week. I cooperate to teach it with Karen, one of the Chinese English teachers in our office. Here four of our kids are acting out Goldilocks and the 3 Bears. Don't miss Papa bear's huge paws!

The teachers in our office that were gone to Australia for part of the semester are back now!!! It is so great to have Winnie here again! She's the 3rd grade Chinese English teacher and both me and the kids missed her! Here we are at our desks last week...

Also exciting-- I got to see Suzy a couple weeks ago!! She came over all the way from the States to visit China with her dad for a couple weeks and I got to meet up with her for dinner one night! :) It was so great to see her again and to have a friend from home see what life is like here for me!

Well, that's all for now. I'm going on a field trip later this week with my kids to the Botanical Gardens- I can't wait! And the week after we all get our May holiday vacation for a week off school. It's comparable to Spring Break in the states. I had to laugh when I told my sister I just finished mid-terms with my kids and she said she was preparing for finals week! Yes, the kids in China work extremely hard! There's no way around that. I hope you all are doing well! Have a great week!