November 16, 2015

Report cards are complete, looking ahead to parent teacher conferences and then to a two and half day weekend. For that weekend I’m heading to Hong Kong for a break-yahoooo!

 Last weekend I had free tickets to enjoy the Macau Symphony and a tenor vocalist from France. I also visited another Macau site-Fisherman’s Wharf. I was surprised to find out that it is unlike any Fisherman’s Wharf that I’ve experienced before. There were a lot of shops and no seafood to be found except for what was served on your plate when you ordered dinner.

 It was, though, a real calming environment to walk around in. We had supper outdoors at a Thai restaurant which was fabulous. In fact the food was so tasty, we also took home take out to enjoy the next day.

You will also find photos posted of the end of our ‘Sense’ unit for prekindergarten. We focussed on the sense of sight this week as well as participating in some overall sense activities. 

November 1, 2015

It’s been a full two weeks, not with entertainment but with respect to work. We are heading into report period and so that is taking up a little bit of time as well as keeping up with planning. We are required to have peers review the reports, then to the coordinator before they go to the elementary principal so they need to be completed very early. They don’t actually get printed for three weeks yet. I learned something new ‘we don’t call our charges ‘students’, we call them ‘children’.  My learning bag is growing-that’s for sure!!

Friday we had a short Halloween celebration. All but one child had a parent present for our Halloween activity time so it was greatly supported. There were four activities set up at which parents chose to participate in with their child. I must say it turned out very well.

One of the stations was icing cookies. The children mixed up the batter on Wed., rolled, cut and baked them on Thurs. and iced them on Friday. It doesn’t sound like a huge job but I carried all of the ingredients to work in two trips and it took me three emails to locate and set up a portable oven which had to be plugged in on the next floor up. Will I attempt this again????

Crazy- look at all of the treats brought in. Although I will say that for most of the children this is the only Halloween that they'll celeb rate.

Last weekend I did take in a Portuguese festival close to where I live. Macau was originally a Portuguese colony although one doesn’t see too many people from that culture around but you can definitely see the influences all over Macau such as the street names. There was lots of great music and Portuguese people in attendance. There were a multitude of booths representing different Portuguese colonies from this part of the world such as Africa. It was a lot of fun.