Vertabrae

After my fall at school I went to the doctor and had an Xray. I have a broken vertabrae. The doctor handed me some pain killers and said he would organise a bone density test. Thats all -no info about how to manage it -so being a 21st century learner I went on to google. There is nothing to be done -it is meant to come right after several weeks-so now I know. Its really sore.Has anyone got any advice?

Teaching

I am having a couple of days off school due to having an unexplained fall. The ambulance person wondered if I had strained/stretched my back because I had been doing a lot of writing on the board. If I wasnt in so much pain I would have laughed as the days of the teacher being up the front of the class writing on the board have really changed. Writing is more than likely to be done by the children anyway and there is so much more to learning now than just writing. Kind of an AHA moment for me but it did make me think has the community kept up with our ICT learning.
I am going to get more photos in the holidays for my blog.

Another photo I just like - my grandson did it. Time to remember that school holidays will be about spending some time with my 3 grandkids too.
I have just been onto the Rellco wiki share and there is a nice comment displayed. Its from Robyn and another one from Carol at Rotokawa. I bet LW got them to write something after me being pathetic on the blog. I have to learn that I shouldnt need feedback from people about my ICT/Inquiry learning - kids should be the ones I should listen to.
Even on Friday after House Groups one of the teachers told me that her kids said they just floated an orange for their activity in Room 20. I wanted them to learn that scientists predict, using prior knowledge and then test to confirm or change their thinking. I thought I was really well organised with my equipment and when some other children said they enjoyed what they did because they got to try something new, or that they were surprised by what actually floated and sunk I thought it was a successful activity BUT ____Maybe not.

The Week That Was

Second to last week of term 3 and boy its gone fast. I am having a student Astrid after the holidays so I had better make sure I am organised. Hopefully my science fellowship gets organised early term 4 so its all in place for 2011. I am going to carry on with water as my big inquiry as I like the way it lends itself to simple science experiences. My little kids are getting right into the water cycle and love using the big words like evaporation and condendsation.

The Week That Was

I presented at our cluster share at Lynmore School on wednesday. To be honest I wasnt very happy about what I did but I did start by saying that they weren't going to learn anything new but I wanted the people to reflect on their own learning. I kind of wanted to share where I had come from with my IT learning and while I know it is way behind where most other people are I have learnt heaps.
I am ashamed of my classblog and want to work on that -maybe a wiki is better and for next year when I am doing my science fellowship ----YES its all go for term 1 and 2 2011-- I will need to work that out.
My grand daugter drew this redfish and i am putting it on just because I like it.