Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Whoever said school was boring?

2nd day of school and I'm already feeling DRAINED!
There's just so much to do and I'm stoked to see what the rest of the year is going to be like!

Last year I was fortunate enough to be a part of the Corinda SHS Expo that happens once every 4 years. This year, I am fortunate enough to be a part of the bi-annual Corinda musical, as the PROPS CO-ORDINATOR!! This was because at the new teachers induction, I mentioned that my passion other than teaching was art and craft (all thanks to cosplay LOL) and Amy, one of the new drama teachers told the Drama HOD about it and WAHLAH! I find myself holding the script to the Corinda SHS Musical! *squee*

Lessons have been going great so far! I'm slowly learning my students' names which is great, seeing I see them during form, Math and Science. Not to mention I have other students outside of my form class from my 2 Mandarin classes and my Year 9 Math.

Although I have yet to meet my Year 9 Math and my 2nd Mandarin class, I find myself looking forward to the new faces.

My first lesson of the week was Junior Science with my 8s and they were so cute. We were discussing how Science is used in different jobs such as a nurse, engineer, chef, police etc. According to them, a chef needs to know chemistry in order to mix food together and the police needs to know human biology so he can shoot people without killing them and physics to calculate the speed of a person running away.
Did I mention the headache they kept giving me by constantly digressing from the subject?

"Miss, what's the difference between the FBI and the police?"
"Miss, what does FBI stand for?"
"Someone told me it was Female Body Inspector."

Oh gosh, these sweet little things... NOT. They're wolves in sheeps' clothing! Haha... And I thought they were all so quiet at the beginning of the day.

My Mandarin class was even more quiet. These students have never taken Mandarin before so they had no idea what to expect. I introduced a e i o u to them and the 4 intonations that went with it. They struggled a bit but they pulled through in the end, I just had them think like they were in a music lesson. xD Now to be a good teacher you gotta be able to suss out whether your students are engaged or not. I could tell they were getting a little tired of practicing the pronounciations so I decided to start them on basic words and phrases I'd use. Which worked out really well and got the class involved with standing up, sitting down, raising their hands and everything. Lucky for them, next lesson is going to be learning about the Chinese culture! That should be fun.

At least now I know what to do when I go into my 2nd Mandarin class for the first time. :D

Anywho, wish me luck with the rest of the year! I gotta get started on reading through the script for the musical and taking note of the props to be used, planning my Year 9 Math lessons, drawing up a birthday chart and rewards chart for my form class. Oh what fun.

Posted by chibified kitsunes at 17:11