Once again, I'll be participating in The Hope Ward - Fun Run 2013 this Sunday! But this time I'll be running 10 km instead of walking 5 km. Am I prepared? Only tomorrow will decide. See you at sunrise! :-)
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Saturday, November 16, 2013
Some photos from Little Light Children Centre to brighten up your day!
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| Drawing on the black board |
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| Playing "Three Sticks" |
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| Swinging! |
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| More swinging! :D |
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| Happy Bridget with her Origami flower and heart |
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| Angry Bridget |
Sunday, October 6, 2013
Little Light - Second Visit
My class became bigger as more students joined and I replaced a teacher who couldn't come.
As I planned my lesson for only two students I only printed two worksheets, so for the next time I should print more copies to be ready for any surprises.
We studied the multiplication from 0-4 and filled in the worksheets just as planned. However, the game didn't go as well as expected because I failed to explain what exactly the aim of the exercise is.
But one thing I can say for sure is that when I marked their papers, I was impressed on how quickly they can learn and feel satisfied by their fabulous mark.
The fundraiser for stationary is planned to be a movie night for the secondary students. We have already spoken to the Head of Secondary about it and he said that we need to carry out a "market" research to see whether students will show up and would that be enough to reach our goal?
Friday, October 4, 2013
Lesson Plan - Little Light Second Visit
Topic
Learning multiplication tables.
Duration
The session will range from one hour and fifteen minutes to one hour and a half, then it would be play time!
Objectives
- to learn the multiplication tables from 0 to 4
Strategies
I plan to teach the multiplication tables using objects and worksheets that I have found on the website http://www.education.com/worksheets. I will go step by step in order to ensure that my students will understand their multiplication tables!
Resources
- worksheets
- colored pencils
- cards
Warm up
Start with the simpler ones to get an idea of what they already know.
Activities
This time they will be mainly academic, but the other students can join my group and we can the multiplication chain game with us.
The multiplication chain game is a card game. Each student will get an even number of cards and each card will have a number and a multiplication underneath that number, for example, if the card says 16, the one that asks "who has 4X4?" will receive that card, underneath the number there will be a similar question "who has 3X7?" and the one who has 21 will say "me!".
Closure
We will go to play outside and reflect on what we have done today.
"All we need is just a little patience"
Saturday, September 28, 2013
First Day At Little Light!
Little light is my collaborative project, which I had started at the end of IB1.
Today, I had a group of two students that needed help in completing their workbook. The work we had completed mainly focused on English and so next week's lesson should be more focused on maths. The students were really shy but I tried to integrate songs and other interactive activities in my lesson and I think they'll slowly get used to me being their teacher. We studied for about an hour and half and then had a break, where actually the children had taught us how to play a game involving a dance.
A note to myself: For next week I have to find songs that will help the students to memorize the multiplication table and also plan the fundraiser for stationary!
Today, I had a group of two students that needed help in completing their workbook. The work we had completed mainly focused on English and so next week's lesson should be more focused on maths. The students were really shy but I tried to integrate songs and other interactive activities in my lesson and I think they'll slowly get used to me being their teacher. We studied for about an hour and half and then had a break, where actually the children had taught us how to play a game involving a dance.
During the lesson
Play time!
A note to myself: For next week I have to find songs that will help the students to memorize the multiplication table and also plan the fundraiser for stationary!
Friday, June 7, 2013
Volleyball
The familiar sport of volleyball was introduced to our school only this year! And what more? I've decided to overcome my weird phobia of participating in a team sport.
Volleyball was a completely new sport for me. I've never in my entire life have played it but soon as joined the club I found that it was both challenging and enjoyable at the same time. Learning new skills was exciting and difficult but my height gave me some advantage during the game. However, the skill I didn't manage to learn at the end was how to serve the ball without going into unwanted directions.
Although I wasn't part of the official team, I've still showed perseverance and commitment in this activity as I've attended all the practices. But the most personally important learning outcome was working collaboratively with others, because as I've written previously, I don't like participating in team sports. The reason I don't like it is because it's difficult for me to coordinate and communicate amongst my fellow teammates. I also lack a sense of direction and lack an aiming ability. Therefore, through this, I improved the areas in which I lacked.
I think now volleyball is my favorite team sport, and I'm very disappointed that I won't be able to participate next year as it would be during final exams and we won't be at school.
Volleyball was a completely new sport for me. I've never in my entire life have played it but soon as joined the club I found that it was both challenging and enjoyable at the same time. Learning new skills was exciting and difficult but my height gave me some advantage during the game. However, the skill I didn't manage to learn at the end was how to serve the ball without going into unwanted directions.
Although I wasn't part of the official team, I've still showed perseverance and commitment in this activity as I've attended all the practices. But the most personally important learning outcome was working collaboratively with others, because as I've written previously, I don't like participating in team sports. The reason I don't like it is because it's difficult for me to coordinate and communicate amongst my fellow teammates. I also lack a sense of direction and lack an aiming ability. Therefore, through this, I improved the areas in which I lacked.
I think now volleyball is my favorite team sport, and I'm very disappointed that I won't be able to participate next year as it would be during final exams and we won't be at school.
Sunday, April 14, 2013
What time is it? PROM TIME!
Although the Beatles Prom wasn't the Octopus's garden, and it definitely wasn't in the shade, but we did sing and dance around. Now, enough with silliness. If I were to sum our prom in one word it would be a simple "Wow". All the effort and hard work did pay off and the result was incredible and I can proudly say that IB1's have achieved their aim and provided a memorable night to all our leavers.
In our school there's a tradition where the IB1 organize the prom for IB2 as a leavers' gift and also year 11's. Our class started planning the prom from November, beginning with deciding on a theme and also an appropriate venue. We spent a lot of time deciding on the venue, changing from one to another, and trying to get it for free, similarly to the IB2's last year. Eventually, we decided on Kabira Country club since it was the closest, it had a new ball room built recently and of course we got the venue for free.
Even though, we still had to raise a lot of money to cover other costs such as food, drinks, DJ and decorations.
We organized a few fundraisers but our main one was the Dream Team. The Dream Team is a skilled basketball team of teachers and they are up to compete against the students' teams. Each team member had to pay 10,000 ugx in order to participate, and if the students team won they would get their money back. As well as organizing, I was involved in a team myself, called the Jew crew. Even though we haven't won, we still gave it our best and managed to raise around 800,000 ugx which was used as a deposit for our venue.
But the road was still long and time was running out. We quickly decided on the design of the invitations and printed them the Monday after. We began to advertise around the school that it was time to pay and that the deadline was 28th of March. We walked into classes each morning to collect the money and bugged those who didn't pay.
Now comes the fun part! The making of the decoration!
With the guidance of a designer that came straight from Israel, we made decoration that corresponded directly to the Beatles' theme. Some of the decoration we made included peace signs out hula hoops decorated with flowers and spray painted bicycles.
And the moment we all been waiting for! Prom day!
It was all very stressful, and we were all struggling with doing last minute touch ups. The night itself went pretty smoothly, with everything according to plan - the voting for prom king and queen has been counted by the teachers and the king and queen dance "Thousand Years" by Christina Perry was performed by Anna and Victor (2 students from my year) and made all listeners a little bit teary-eyed.
To summarize half a year worth of work in 4 hours was hard to digest and although I was relieved, I was sad as well. The prom was a definite success that everybody enjoyed. This project has allowed me to show perseverance and commitment, work collaboratively, undertake new challenges and plan activities.
And most importantly, the prom and behind the scenes was an experience that I wouldn't forget so easily.
In our school there's a tradition where the IB1 organize the prom for IB2 as a leavers' gift and also year 11's. Our class started planning the prom from November, beginning with deciding on a theme and also an appropriate venue. We spent a lot of time deciding on the venue, changing from one to another, and trying to get it for free, similarly to the IB2's last year. Eventually, we decided on Kabira Country club since it was the closest, it had a new ball room built recently and of course we got the venue for free.
Even though, we still had to raise a lot of money to cover other costs such as food, drinks, DJ and decorations.
We organized a few fundraisers but our main one was the Dream Team. The Dream Team is a skilled basketball team of teachers and they are up to compete against the students' teams. Each team member had to pay 10,000 ugx in order to participate, and if the students team won they would get their money back. As well as organizing, I was involved in a team myself, called the Jew crew. Even though we haven't won, we still gave it our best and managed to raise around 800,000 ugx which was used as a deposit for our venue.
But the road was still long and time was running out. We quickly decided on the design of the invitations and printed them the Monday after. We began to advertise around the school that it was time to pay and that the deadline was 28th of March. We walked into classes each morning to collect the money and bugged those who didn't pay.
Now comes the fun part! The making of the decoration!
With the guidance of a designer that came straight from Israel, we made decoration that corresponded directly to the Beatles' theme. Some of the decoration we made included peace signs out hula hoops decorated with flowers and spray painted bicycles.
And the moment we all been waiting for! Prom day!
It was all very stressful, and we were all struggling with doing last minute touch ups. The night itself went pretty smoothly, with everything according to plan - the voting for prom king and queen has been counted by the teachers and the king and queen dance "Thousand Years" by Christina Perry was performed by Anna and Victor (2 students from my year) and made all listeners a little bit teary-eyed.
To summarize half a year worth of work in 4 hours was hard to digest and although I was relieved, I was sad as well. The prom was a definite success that everybody enjoyed. This project has allowed me to show perseverance and commitment, work collaboratively, undertake new challenges and plan activities.
And most importantly, the prom and behind the scenes was an experience that I wouldn't forget so easily.
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| Tadaaaaah! |
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