4 years old!

Today I got to teach a class of 4 year olds, the youngest I have been with yet! I definitely want to be a primary teacher in the future; the kids were all so lovely and energetic. They were also, embarrassingly, better at English than I am at Spanish! The idea of someone having lived literally just 4 years is mind-boggling to me; I still get surprised when they speak in full sentences because I think 4 is much younger in my mind that it actually is in real life. 4 years ago I was at university, and most of them weren't even born yet! 

The teacher Juan-Carlos was very kind and helpful and I felt I learned a lot from watching his interactions with the children. They want me to do the same class next week with another group of the same age. This means I will need to spend another 2 hours cutting out ears, mouths, noses and eyes for their Picasso paintings again; I ran out this time and had to cut more as they were making the pictures. I also played a video on my speaker and very awkwardly tried to dance along - I think they enjoyed it but it is going to take me some time to feel confident doing things like that naturally!

I finally got a chance to use my stickers that my mum had custom-made (yes she is a lot - and I love it!) that say 'Teacher Ellie says -amazing-' with animal pictures on them. I think this went down very well. At the end of the class Juan-Carlos put all their pictures up on the board and it looked to cute and colourful, but I forgot to take a picture! I must take a photo at the next class, to show I have been doing something other than eating tapas and drinking wine while I have been here!

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