My 4th grade class!

Took me long enough to get these pictures up. Oh well. Better late than never?

This is 4th grade class. I've discovered that assisting in this class is my element. I think I enjoy being an assistant much more than being a teacher, though I still enjoy my first graders. But, when I'm assisting, I have the ability to get on the same level as these kids and just be their friend and be an encouragement when I can. This class is also at the age that I just love. They're old enough that you can be silly with and play with maybe even a little sarcastic, but they're also young enough that they haven't hit the rude and crazy age of the teenagers. 

These are some of my Fourth Grade girls getting ready to get their "cereal." The cereal they have at school only comes on Mondays and it has oats and rice and sugar (I think). It's supposed to stick to their ribs a little bit longer to keep them from getting too hungry. 

This is my Recess assistant and awesome roommate, Teacher Bethany with some of the girls. I can't get over how sweet this picture is!

And then, we have my boys. I thank God so much for these sweet boys and continuously pray that they will grow into the men that God desires for them to be. Pray with me that they would break the chains of alcoholism and adultery that has entangled Honduras into a life of poverty. I pray that one day, these boys would become the spiritual leaders of this country, pointing all towards Jesus Christ.

This girl...is a character! Her name is Jasmine. Just look at her! Does she not make your heart melt?

Aaaaaand, this is Milton. We're not saying this out loud...but uh...anyone ever heard the term, "teacher's pet?" Don't know why that term came into my mind. Nope. Not at all. 

Jasmine, Isis (pronounced ee-sees) and Kenssi drinking their cereal!

Dilver, is such a sweet kid! One day we were on our way home from school and it started raining. The windows in the bus were down as always. I was getting sprayed with rain but it didn't bother me too much. But Dilver decided I didn't need to get wet so he reached up and closed the window and then patted his chest like, "I've gotcha teacher!" So adorable! The other day, Teacher Kathy (4th grade teacher) asked him if he would like to pray. It was such a sweet prayer that I had to blink back tears. Nothing but thankfulness in this kid's heart! 

And here's Milton and Jonathan. Jonathan is so stinking funny. His desk is closest to the teacher's desk where I sometimes sit to grade papers or organize folders or other such fun things. A couple Friday's ago, the kids had a vocabulary and spelling test (in which they all did AMAZING). I was putting their test results in their folders (which go home every Friday) and Jonathan, poor boy, was so nervous about his test score he couldn't concentrate on anything Teacher Kathy was saying. He peaked and saw his folder was on the top of the stack. He looked at me and grabbed his head in anxiety and scrunched his little face. So, being the pushover that I am with this class, I gently and discreetly held up his test score, 100%!!! He almost jumped out of his chair and then did this little quite dance and smiled the biggest smile I've ever seen. 

And here's some of the kids with Solomon, the husky dog that belongs to Rhonda's kids but just kind of wanders everywhere...especially where there's food!

And here's some more of the girls! The one posing is Claire. That is all her personality right there!

And Ingrid on the swing with David not looking at me haha!

I love this picture. Enough said. 

And last, but not least, here's my boys playing some form of Football Americano...I think. Either way, there's usually at least one band-aid after recess.