QUADRILATERALS

The topic for today was... quadrilaterals!! I wasn't planning on teaching at Colegio Claretiano. But, when I walked in, Profesor Aguilar told me he had a PowerPoint prepared and that he wanted me to teach about quadrilaterals. He told me to just follow the PowerPoint and explain stuff and let the students take notes. I am beginning to realize that I should probably enter Colegio Claretiano everyday with the awareness that I might be teaching, even if I don't know WHAT I will teach. This still seems a bit strange to me -- I can't believe that I have been asked to teach without having prepared anything at all.

But today went well!! I learned the Spanish words for lots of quadrilaterals as I taught about the qualities of kites and trapezoids! Again, I was pleasantly surprised and pleased to realize that I was able to teach these things, without preparation, IN SPANISH. Describing concavity was a bit complicated, but I think that they caught on pretty quick.

On the second slide of the PowerPoint, there was a figure like this one:

And it was labeled... "trapezoide". Hmmmm, I thought. That sure doesn't look like a trapezoid to me. What's going on here? And then, a short time later, there was a slide about trapecios, and on THAT slide, there were lots and lots of trapezoids. So... I learned that trapecio (not trapezoide) means "trapezoid".

And right now... I think I'm going to eat a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup. Because Ann Webster is AWESOME!