A rather good week
This past week at work was great, I'm really enjoying my classes and despite being directly above the cooking room without aircon on a 40 degree days it's fairly enjoyable.
Some hightlights from this week in no particular order include:
1. What may actually be the best lesson I have ever run. It was disgustingly hot so I figured we could spend sometime discussing plate techtonics, folding, faulting and volcanoes and then maybe give them some time to do their homework. Very casual and not too intensive because of the heat. In the end we discussed all of the above but also cloning, nature vs nurture, time travel, cyrongenics, questioning scientific theories, the future and flying cars. Heaps of animated discussion and some really good questions and ideas came out. I was also asked one of the most pressing issues of our time, "Miss, will the future be like Star Wars or Futurama?"
2. Catching up with friends for dinner and today for lunch. Though I am generally rather neglectful of the whole socialising thing at the moment.
3. Got to listen to a Nobel Prize winner speak during assembly. He was very cool. Promoted the idea of "not being very good at sport is ok", "if you want anything done you should do it yourself" and told amusing tales of being a student and blowing things up with chemicals.
4. Babysat a PE class. Normally this would result in much pain on my behalf as I hate school based PE classes. I was told that the kids were watching a demonstration so all I needed to do was sit at the back and made sure they behaved. I did this for about 3 minutes. The demonstration was a juggling workshop so I joined in playing with the poi, juggling and diabolo with the rest of the kids.
5. Extra fans magically appeared in my classroom later in the week.
6. Got down to City Farm early today for lovely organic fruit and veg. It's amazing how much more stuff there is at 8:30 compared to 10:30.
7. Breakfasting on yummy smoothies every morning. So thick they are like icecream (but less junky).
8. Did some field work with kids in the bushland reserve near the school. Nice to get out and about.
Some hightlights from this week in no particular order include:
1. What may actually be the best lesson I have ever run. It was disgustingly hot so I figured we could spend sometime discussing plate techtonics, folding, faulting and volcanoes and then maybe give them some time to do their homework. Very casual and not too intensive because of the heat. In the end we discussed all of the above but also cloning, nature vs nurture, time travel, cyrongenics, questioning scientific theories, the future and flying cars. Heaps of animated discussion and some really good questions and ideas came out. I was also asked one of the most pressing issues of our time, "Miss, will the future be like Star Wars or Futurama?"
2. Catching up with friends for dinner and today for lunch. Though I am generally rather neglectful of the whole socialising thing at the moment.
3. Got to listen to a Nobel Prize winner speak during assembly. He was very cool. Promoted the idea of "not being very good at sport is ok", "if you want anything done you should do it yourself" and told amusing tales of being a student and blowing things up with chemicals.
4. Babysat a PE class. Normally this would result in much pain on my behalf as I hate school based PE classes. I was told that the kids were watching a demonstration so all I needed to do was sit at the back and made sure they behaved. I did this for about 3 minutes. The demonstration was a juggling workshop so I joined in playing with the poi, juggling and diabolo with the rest of the kids.
5. Extra fans magically appeared in my classroom later in the week.
6. Got down to City Farm early today for lovely organic fruit and veg. It's amazing how much more stuff there is at 8:30 compared to 10:30.
7. Breakfasting on yummy smoothies every morning. So thick they are like icecream (but less junky).
8. Did some field work with kids in the bushland reserve near the school. Nice to get out and about.
posted by moonbug @ Saturday, February 25, 2006
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