Halloween at Eötvös!!

As we are getting closer to Halloween, I decided to bring some of the holiday traditions to my classroom.  I spent some time telling the history of Halloween - since I am a history teacher - surprisingly, many of the "American" traditions started in Ireland.  Who knew?  Anyhow- we bobbed for apples, and Zsófi and I carved pumpkins.  Jenny colored one - called "buster" and we celebrated!

Welcoming ceremony!

Friday was an exciting day at school!  The 9A students were pretty "fired up" for the performance after school.  We were sure that our skit was going to be performed perfectly as we had practiced it many times.  As long as everyone projected their voices, we were sure to get some laughs from the audience.  I have included some silly and serious pictures of the 9A students.

More 10th grade actors!

Here is the other half of the 10A class.  They had the same scenarios, and acted them all differently.  It was fun to see their creativity - we'll have to do more activities like this to get them comfortable in front of their peers!

The 10th graders are going to Hollywood!!

On Friday, I had the 10th graders act out scenarios at school.  They are working on moods and emotions- though they weren't really that explicit in their skits.  They were creative and funny at the same time.  I have included some pictures!  Examples of the scenes were "your child stole something, what do you say?"  "your friend fell while skiing, what do you say?" and situations like this.  I hope this inspires them to start speaking more English - as they seem to be the most shy!

Black and Gold day!

I have been talking about Homecoming week during all of my classes this week- it coincides with Burnsville’s Homecoming.  We discussed the different days of dress, the activities from the powder puff game to the dance, and the black and gold day events.  I explained pep fests and the drumline and danceline, and then encouraged the students to wear their school colors to school some days.  Today, my 9A students (the ones I know the best) celebrated Black and Gold day with me.  I told them that Black and Gold day is very important to my students back home, and that they take pride in showing support for their school.  They were very excited to take part in Black and Gold day – even though they are thousands of miles away from my Burnsville Students.  It brought them a bit closer to my home, and made me feel for a few minutes as if I was back at BHS.  It was very nice.  The rest of the school was a little confused as to why one section of students all dressed in the same colors, but whatever.  That’s what makes the English dual language program cool.  J

Welcome!!

Welcome to the site dedicated to my students at Eotvos Jozsef Gimnazium!!!  Hopefully in the next few days, I'll get the chance to post some pictures of students and stories of my teaching experience at Eotvos.  I wish I knew how to write accents on here so I could spell the school name the right way!!!