SO I've been sitting here the past ten minutes trying my hardest to figure out what in the world I did in school last week. I know I taught a whole bunch of lessons but can't for the life of me remember any (and my file and timetable are all at school right now)...... I think that means I've been working too hard. haha.
Monday was a teacher work day so the kids didn't come in. We still had one confused little boy show up; but we quickly sent him back home to his Mum. We attended a few meetings and then got on with planning for the rest of the week.
On Tuesday, I basically taught cooking all day. My cooperating teacher dislikes cooking even more than I do (unbelievable I know). So all day I took out groups to make either flapjacks or chocolate fridge cake. That was an incredibly interesting experience for me because I had never cooked the European way. (They don't measure in cups instead we used scales and measure all the ingredients in grams.) After school, the fashion design club teacher and myself planned out our field trip to the fabric store. We will be taking the club to the fabric store one afternoon to purchase some fabrics. Since we were going to be using the S-bahn system to get the kids there, we had to ride it routs and see how long it would take. It ended up being only a few minutes so we explored the fabric store (It's a wonderful fabric store. I've had to really resist buying anything.)After the fabric store we sat in a little bar and had a few drinks and a chat.
On Wednesday I taught something, but can't remember haha. (I think I introduced the topic of rivers, actually) After school I sat in on a focus group meeting. The one I observed was going over how to make the school curriculum booklets more cohesive and informative. It was actually pretty interesting.
On Thursday I taught a lesson on Explanatory texts. If you have no clue what those are, no worries I had no clue before I started planning the lesson. (basically non-fiction texts that tell you how or why something works) I signed up for the staff samba club on Wednesday afternoons so after school a bunch of the staff herd into the music room and the samba guy has us all bang away on these big drums. I am absolutely hopeless and can barely follow a simple one-two beat without confusing myself, but we actually sound pretty good at points. And its incredibly good stress relief!
On Friday I taught something or other, but I can't remember right now. And then I headed home and packed for my trip to Dresden!!
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