I love it when a plan comes together

Was up at 5 today to do planning. I've reverted to doing them all in the morning the ideas just flow so much more better and by the time I get to school I’m fully awake. This however also means that the most of the planning is in my head. I do have some stuff typed up but not on the official 'planning sheets we've been given by the uni.

We started 'sound' today. The key objective was for the children to understand that we hear sound because of an object or material vibrating. I had done a proper plan i.e. used the uni planning sheets in the morning but for some reason I don't seem to write down the actual plan just a vague overview.

Just before dinner I was told that I would have 3 other teachers in my class during science. I wasn't too worried about my written plans; no-one really reads them word for word anyway. I was going to stick to the plan in my head. I was more nervous about teaching the class whilst these other 3 teachers are there. By the time the lesson started I thought sod it! I'll use the teachers in my lesson. It's not often you can have a teacher per table so decided to make the most of it.

The lesson went brilliantly the extra teachers were impressed too. One of them commented on how confident I was.......yeah right!! Inside I was really nervous thinking they were going to turn around and say 'we weren't here for you to use us' but the kids really did benefit and that’s what matters the most at the end of the day. Besides since when did it take 3 teachers too observe a lesson?!

Tomorrow’s agenda:

The final's for the talent show. People who made it through:

'Bop to the top' boys
Belly dancing girl (who I think is too young to do some of the moves she was doing)
2 girls from my class
Skipping girl and I can't remember the rest. The break dancing kid didn't make it fortunately...I wasn't the only teacher who thought he was hil-ari-ous! Thank god!

Bop to the Top

Bop to the top!

Mentor walks in to classroom from staffroom
Me: Anything on the whiteboard?
Mentor: We ALL have to dress up for world book day and come in as some stupid character!
Me: ha ha, think I’ll come in just to see that, when is it?
Mentor: 1st March
Me: 1st? March? that’s the day I get my final observation?
Mentor: (looks in dairy, mimics my laugh) yep sure is!

Now I have to actually make an effort to impress my tutor and show that I’m wholeheartedly taking part in the wider school community grrrrr!

In other news, todays semi finals of the talent show had a performance imitating 'bop to the top' form high school musical.

I was trying to paste the video from youtube here but it keeps telling me it'll send it shortly, shortly has passed and still no video so look for 'bop to the top' yourself....then imagine 2boys doing it....

Bop to the Top

I saw this being performed at todays semi finals of the talent show....

The age of innocence...

This morning it felt like a life time had past since I stepped in to a classroom by the afternoon it felt like I had never left the classroom. The kids have grown up so much its amazing and freakishly scary at the same time.

4 weeks before when we were doing the highway man the boys couldn't even bring themselves to say the word 'kiss'. Today during ICT we used a program (which I recommended and the school have got on trail :D) called kar2ouche. The software provides everything you need to write a story using a storyboard. The task was to come up with a storyboard about a myth using just 6 screen shots.

The boys managed to get the characters to kiss......They actually had a knight and a princess embracing with their lips locked.

I was just shocked so shocked I can't even remember what I said to them. Whatever it was that I said must have made them feel abit embarrassed because when I came around again that scene had disappeared and was replaced with the knight having a battle with a fiery dragon. Much more normal for them. For awhile I thought I had imagined it. There’s no way these same boys who point blank refused to say the word 'kiss' could possibly be showing their characters snogging each others face off. Their innocence couldn't disappear so easily. I decided to believe that.

I believed they were still innocent until the end of the day when they had to copy out the meanings of the spellings they had to learn using dictionaries. The boys soon discovered that on page 661 there was a word which began with s and ended wit x. This really made me just stand there. Completely gob smacked. I opened my mouth to say something along the lines of 'Stop being silly, and grow up' when a flash back of my A2 English language class came to mind. At the age of 18 (twice the age of what these kids are) I quite distinctly remember studying old english and along with the rest of the class looking through the etymology for rude words in old english.

That memory caused an irremovable smile of my face. These boys will most likely be doing the same thing with dictionaries for the rest of their schooling....guess some jokes never get old and innocence doesn’t last as long as I thought it did.

How time flies....

Wanted this blog to have some sort of record on my teaching progression but life is moving quicker then ever before. Too many things are happening which I wish I had the time to write about. Actually I wish I had a pensive like Dumbledore's in Harry Potter so that I could sieve through the hundred and one things racing around in my head and be able to relive some moments, go over some things in more detail, experience things again...hmmmm if only!!

I'll use the rest of my time on this PC wisely and put this blog to use, quick update on teaching and life:

Had to quit teaching practice a week early to go Dubai. I'm due back on Monday...I'm dreading going back. Even tho it's only been a 2weeks (week I missed plus half term) it feels like I taught a life time ago.

Dubai was brilliant. I learnt and experienced more things in this 1 week then I have in the rest of my life. (The exaggeration is very slight I really did experience and learn alot) This 1 week is the reason as to why I'm craving for a fictional and magical pensive.

Time is up
I did add some pics of dubai, they haven't appeared tho.....oh well