Putting on our homework hats

One thing I've loved about this school year is that all the boys are in the same school. It's a small, private Peruvian school where all of their instruction is in Spanish...well, all except for the English classes I teach twice a week. If you don't know about life in the Southern Hemisphere, our school year goes from March through December. March is our fall (though sadly enough we've never seen any leaves changing colors and we miss that), and December is the beginning of the summer. So now that we are into October, our boys only have a couple months left of school, and yes, they are counting down the weeks! Brandon is finishing 2nd grade, Jonathon will finish Kindergarten, and Nathan will finish preschool.

Homework is part of any student's life, and we are not exempt here. When the boys get home from school we eat lunch (at 2pm which is quite late and we are quite hungry by that point), and then we sit down at the table and do homework. They have at least one page of homework every afternoon, sometimes up to 3 pages. Nathan's homework mostly consists of coloring something, gluing something, or tracing something. Jonathon is learning to write in cursive, yes, you read that right, cursive! Here in Peru, they introduce cursive in Kindergarten, so he's learning the strokes and how to move his hand in more of a circular motion. He also gets pages to color or glue or draw. Brandon usually has either math (he's learning multiplication through the 12's) or writing, in which he's given a long sentence in cursive and has to write it over and over until he gets to the end of the page.

It's so cute to see them concentrating on getting their work done, and one thing I've loved watching is Nathan's tongue!! He concentrates so much that his tongue slowly creeps out of his mouth while he's doing his work--I've seen it at home and also at school when I teach English. I didn't capture Jonathon doing his homework the day I took some pictures, he was too quick to get his work done by the time I had decided to take pictures. Enjoy!