School

I am drawing my energy from my kids in the class at the moment. Boy this job situation is stressful and so I am really monitoring my BSL to ensure I am fine health wise. I have a Year 1 student A and she is working hard at her tasks.The class lesson on friday meant we had some really useful follow up discussions and I like the fact that she is open to new learning, reflecting etc. I am waiting to hear back from JA re science fellowship work as he is away until the 4.11.
My grandaughters birthday party was on saturday and I got her a ukelele. She is only 2 but got it out of the bag, found the pick and started strumming. She is so lucky having an Uncle who is in a band and who has bought a guitar for the older 2 of my grandkids. I am using some of my photos I took of patterns -photos from around my house and around the neighbourhood.

Another Use for My Blog

Sometimes I want to keep stuff in a place I can easily get to and so I am going to put my Fellowship objectives here. I guess I will need to work out (and then learn to do) the best tool to store my work once I really start.
Title - (with apologies to Dr. Seuss)
Working with Sciontists
What do they do
For forest biosecurity
And protection too?

My Objectives
1.To develop my knowledge and understanding of how scientists carry out monitoring trials of a control agent.
2.To develop my camera skills so I can effectively photograph aspects of the insect collection and then to develop a simple key.
3.To assist in one or two public aspects of science (planted forest) eg recreational use, Science in the Park Programme.

surfer on 10.10.10

My other 10.10.10 photo

I was sure I was going to get some action surfing photos BUT-----

10.10.10 World wide Photos/Videos

I registered for this but my photos of a surfer at the beach werent good enough to send it so I am going to put a couple here as a record of my effort.

Our School Inquiry Wiki

I wish I could work it out. I thought I had put on 2 PP about science but they wont open. Then when I went into edit one did, but the next time it didnt. Another frustrating time with ICT. I took some photos of patterns so guess what is going into my blog. Posts look naked without photos and I realised I was reusing my photos and I needed new ones. Often they arent related to what I actually write but I like the look of them.

Title

I have to think of a short,pithy title for my science programme with Scion. Looking over the previous fellows they seemed to have one particular project to work on while I have a bit of variety. The junior teacher in me wants to use something from Dr. Seuss but the school server is down so I can't google science,quotes and Dr. Seuss. Maybe Sciontists at Work???? I will ponder on it.

Science Fellowship

Its all go again with exciting things like 'The Fellow, Tricia Dender, will work with Scion scientists primarily within the forest biosecurity and protection team to assist in some bio-control projects and in developing tools in the insect collection.

Jobs

After forgetting my youngest grandaughters birthday last week because I was so fill of woe about the job situation, I decided that while I am worried about it, I am not going to let it take over my life.I am so sorry Little One

Presentation

Part of our application for our jobs is to have the 'opportunity to present to us why you should be one of the ones to be appointed.'The presentation can take any form you like and has a time frame of 15 - 30 minutes.Under the personal characteristics it states such things as 'we require a person who is willing to use the inquiry process and ICT use, so I am going to build my one around those. I was originally going to use something I had already done involving my class but I really want and need this job so I am going to do things a bit differently.I also want to make sure I show my interest in science and how this will help the school.

School

3 out 8 of us scale A teachers are going to lose our jobs due to our dropping roll. It is a real stressful time for us all. We are going to be given the opportunity to do a presentation so I am thinking about what to do. I will probably use some work I have already done with my children.
I have a year 1 student from Canterbury Uni and she is a reflective person. I like the fact that she listens to advice I give her and takes it on board.
There is a lot of data collecting going on at this time of the year. Junior classes have some extra things like KLST (individual) as well. I am keeping up (so far).
Something has gone wrong with my IWB projector and we are really missing it. The kids liked doing a paint picture at the tech room -they are so good at helping each other and learning together.

U Learn 2010

I may not be there in body but I am hearing about what is going on. Lorraine has sent some great stuff through on the Rellco wiki and I have already signed up with Zoo Burst - now I need to go thru it carefully so I can use it properly.

Also I have been on Jo's blog and read what she has been doing.

Term 4

Overview for next term:
I want to have a go at Lane Clark's Fairy Tale work using her criteria sheets.
For science continue with water exploration.
I have a year 1 student for the first 4 weeks so make sure my planning -WALTS, assessments etc are being done well.
I want to have a good look at our room environment to make sure it is reflecting our learning.
Sort out ICT use for pupil lead conferences - children's voice.