No Day But Today...

Sooo after now procrastinating for 3 days, I finally have time to talk about the awesomeness that was my Friday :)

As I mentioned in my Thursday's post, I got asked to read to the grade 4 class, and chose to bring a whole shwack of Robert Munsch books.  Since I'm student-teaching in a grade 6 classroom, I don't get many chances to really read to my students (the classroom teacher reads from a novel to them almost daily, but that's HER territory) so this was a treat and I took full advantage of it.  I had such a blast making all the sound effects and silly voices....I'm such a nerd =).  I read them 3 books and then got a huge class hug at the end and was presented with a volunteer thank-you package...SO CUTE!  Eeek...makes me miss the younger kids something fierce!

However, the other awesome part of my day was with my own grade 6'ers and our health class.  We're currently in our safety unit (safety of self, self in community, and safety of others) and we had just begun internet safety the previous class.  For Friday's lesson I had prepared 10 scenarios where internet safety is an issue, for example:


"You are doing research for a class project in the lab.  You use a search engine to find links for the project.  You click on one of the links and it opens to a webpage that you realize has little if anything to do with your research topic and it shows a picture of a scantily dressed or nude person.  What should you do?"


I prepped my students before starting the class by explaining that some of what we would be discussing would be uncomfortable at times, but it was all very serious etc etc etc.  And lo and behold, they were amazingly well-behaved and handled all situations with respect and brilliant thinking.  I put up each scenario one-by-one, had them write a few sentences in response, then discussed as a class.  The questions/answers they all had were more than I could have hoped for from them.  At the end of the class, they wanted to keep going and complained when the teacher stepped in to begin teaching the next lesson.  I walked around for the rest of the day with a perpetual smile on my face lookin' like a right goof.  But it's alright, because now I got them hooked.


My Saturday was consumed with a conference for student-teachers at the university.  Not a bad conference this year, I was rather impressed by the sessions I attended.  To make it worthwhile, I won a door prize at the end of the whole thing, so I didn't feel too down about being at school on a Saturday at 8:30 in the morning.  In the evening, I relaxed in our box at the MTS centre watching the hockey game, getting drunk with my dad and having an exceptionally good time with him and my brother and his girlfriend (although we're not "technically" calling her that...they're 15 and my parents are a bit old-school.  It's my brother's friend.)  Great end to an pretty good day.


As I sit here writing, I just received a phone call that my brother has been taken by ambulance to hospital from his hockey game.  Apparently he's royally shattered his knee and it's not looking so great, so if all you bloggers could keep him in your thoughts, that would be awesome.
(Will update when I know more)

xo