First week back

First week back to school was all in all good. I love that feeling of greeting kids after a longish holiday. They've all grown so much!

So I'm back in the rhythm of things and had the best idea for my afternoon class: fake money!

Heres how it works: Each class I stick the kids names on the board. If during class they are behaving super duper or if they blurt out something in awesome english, they collect a dollar. The kids can save these dollars in little ABC wallets and can later buy something from the store. I'll keep a photo inventory and price list of different prizes up on the board so kids can decide what they want to buy with the money they earn. Genius!

I think this will work really well with some of the misbehaved boys that are bound to take my class. I have a following of the loudest, wildest boys from each class who can't wait to start afternoon English...sigh...

<update> The kids love the money system! Here's a pic of the English store I bring out once every 2 weeks:

Anyway, I'm really proud of my newest creation: a hand bound notebook I'm going to use for keeping track of recipes!

here's a link to the tutorial I used to make it: Bookbinding-Tutorial

And had to share this photo. Its a dead gecko that popped out of shirt we brought back from Thailand. Poor thing. 

Well, thats all for today. I'm going for run. I'm saying it to the world (yes the whole world follows my blog) so that I actually get my booty out there and do it.

Cheers ;)