I'm thinking one part may be "when I wake up at 6AM, what are my international friends doing?" and "What do you do when you go home? What do my friends do?What do your teachers do?" using maps, photos, time zones.
So...international lj friends...where are you reading from and would you be interested in helping me if I needed you to take a few pictures of your daily lives, workplaces, hobbies?
Yucky fake-winter weather. Give me real winter or let it be!
We stayed inside today. Borrowed my parents drill to finally get the framed robot poster up.
(Our walls are harder than ordinary concrete, we've named them "diamond walls"...)
Iv'e never been a fan of cyclamen flowers, but i got this one for free through school. This fuzzy pink one doesn't look like they usually do, and i've grown quite fond of it. The flower buds are especially cute.
Found on downstairs bathroom door. We come from a long line of spider rescuers.
2. Being someone with not-so-great self-esteem and a huge competitive nature makes for rather large inferiority complex.
3. I've been sewing! Hand sewing. I'm still intimidated by my sewing machine. I made a skirt for one of my dolls. It's very simple, but it's the first thing I've ever sewed, besides buttons. I'm working on another one now. I am loving it. I always feel better when I'm making something, no matter what it is. (It's only later that I have those thoughts that I do useless,time-wasting, frivolous things.)
4. I realized just how
5. I am in LOVE with these: http://www.etsy.com/shop/GrandOleBestia
6. I want to go see the Lipizzaner Stallions in Charlotte in December. I've wanted to see them since I was a little girl. I researched to read about their training and found no mention of cruelty. If you know something I don't, please let me know!
7. Desdemona
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Hand embroidery on vintage linen.
I love this song and I get chills when I hear these kids singing!
I'm looking over Bhuz and much of the advice is very contradictory. I'w looking at dancer pages and taking it all in.
Wanna make sure I check yours out? Comment with your url please.
Mostly we'll be doing what we did last year:
1st learns a little about animals. 2nd grade plays with colors. 3rd grade runs around messureing things and guessing how many coins are in various bagies (numbers). I've updated those and written the Japanese flow sheets for homeroom teachers that go with them. Those have all been checked for errors and clarity.
Now I am tackling 4th, 5th, and 6th. I'm thinking about creating two lessons per grade for those occasions just to mix things up.
I've updated my beloved 5th grade Egypt lesson (watch Tito with Tatib, What do you know about Egypt? learn greetings in Arabic, review the ABC's via heiroglyphics, write your name in hiragana, romanji, and then heiroglyphs) and I do have an existing follow-up lesson to that about languages of the word/lowercase letters/designing your own alphabet.
The 4th grade lesosn I have is simple (rooms in a house, coloring things in, designing your own dream house) and the 6th grade is flags and flag symbols of the world (colors, countries, meanings of symbols) and deisgning your own flag.
Now I'm starting to kick around a times of day schedule lesson plan. I think this could be for eitehr 4th or 6th depending on complexity.
Random ideas:
start with the usual "what time to you wake up/go to sleep" on weekdays and then weekends.
What does Kathryn do on her weekends? Kids get a worksheet of a schedule and ask "what to you do at 6?" and so on. I explain and (act out) in English and students write, in Japanese, what they think this means. When the schedule if full we ask them what I do at , say, 7pm. Students raise their hands, give their answers and we tell them yes, no, or clarify....can be done in groups with each group guessing what it means and answering on a little white board and holding it up...
Who am I? Quiz Kathryn, homeroom teachers, support staf, and some other teachers (principal) before class. Present (and act out) what a myster teacher does after school/ on a given day and give the students three options for each: (A. Kathryn, B. Homeroom teacher C. Principal). Groups pick, answers revealed, points given, schedule repeated with additional comments and questions. CAN BE DONE with famous characters (Jack Sparrow, Doraemon, dracula) and so on...would need help on Japanese charcter schedules.
Students design a schedule for a dream day off and illsutrate with pictures. Students who want to present their schedule can do so with the help of me making gestures and students guessing what is being done...
Four 4th graders i'd be more likely to use cartoon characters, for 6th graders it'd be adult humiliation FTW.
thinking on page...thinking...
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I had a good teacher experience today.
The school I visited today is one of the two I can walk to from my home. On walking days I get to relax a bit because I don’t have to take the train to city hall first. For once I wouldn’t be getting a ride from the school either and had been requested to find my own way back to city hall. Leisurely walk to the station, Indian curry for lunch, and a train to city hall! Yay! Even time for coffee.
This morning Mr. West called and said my support staff worker would be out sick, so I would be working with the homeroom teachers. He also said this meant no pre-class hou-long meeting with the support staff so I could relax and chill for an extra 50 minutes at home.
The lesson plans I’ve drafted are for three teachers…although making solo lesson plans would be easier for me, the support staff and homeroom teachers wouldn’t learn from participating if I rolled that way. I also wouldn’t be able to asses their skills and weaknesses if it was all me all the time.When my support staff is out or the schools bring me in on a day when they are not there, the homeroom teachers must play a larger role. My problems and triumphs this week and last were at schools where I don’t present with the support staff.
I was slated to teach 4th graders one of my original lessons about seasons ( well: seasons, holidays, months, birthdays and images). It’s pretty easy and the kids enjoy it because it’s fairly easy for them to catch onto how to respond and participate.
( Gestures! )
The Fire epic reconstruction:
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It goes to a good home. Bernie, my body double but chestier, now owns it. We know it will fit her because this is the third costume she has purchased from me.
My web fund grows.
Mourn not, I still have 15 bedlah (bra and belt sets) and 6 full costumes and countless skirts and such. I have no shortage of costumes...although I don't have many red ones left.
I have Farasha's costume in progress and am working on Ezma's green vintage set. After those will probably come Nourah's coin set and I will Ozma-Up my basic pink Sahar.
Seriously enjoyable.
Summary:
Making your breasts grow to a size where your undergarments WILL NOT be caged in by your selection of tops. You'll enjoy the increased illusion of size and feel the need to show everyone your bra. Doesn't matter if you're at work. God's Hand demands you display your bra.
They generally assume that what I do takes hard work, time. and training. For this I love my Japanese GP.
Narcing: an update.
Today I returned to the school where I’d had to end a class early and narc in a 2nd grade teacher for lack of preparation and cooperation.
The grade of the day was 1st graders . The third class of the day would be observed by visiting educators. I’d also made sure that the third period class would be taught by the most confident teacher in the group.
I was only worried about the second period class. First semester I’d had two very bad classes with the 2nd-2 teacher. Twice in a row she hadn’t prepared and would often translate my English into Japanese. Both times I attempted to remind her to not translate she ignored the hint, when I tried again she’d started arguing with me, in front of her students (in Japanese) about how English was too hard without the translations. Her bad behaviour culminated in her telling me (in Japanese) that a student was stupid and couldn’t pay attention when I spent extra time with an ADHD kid (who WAS grasping things quickly) and me having slightly harsh words with her after class…that was first semester. I’m pretty sure the second time I worked with her I left my two Japanese speeches about WHY I ask for no translation and WHY teacher attitude is important on her desk…but I can’t remember.
( She trys! )
[ me & dad at the farm, about to head down the aisle ]
just stopping in to say a blanket thank you to everyone who wished us congratulations/good luck yesterday! the wedding was AMAZING.......seriously, i can't even quite believe it, but nothing even went wrong....and best of all we got MARRIED! it was the greatest day, start to finish. today has been a whirlwind of goodbyes and rides to the airport and now we're settling in for a quiet evening with our two remaining houseguests and an early night for once.
i'll try and post something more coherent tomorrow about the details of the day once i get some sleep and get my head around the fact that i am married, MARRIED, dudes!! until then, good night, and thank you all. your kind words were very much appreciated. i love everyone tonight. :)
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