Timo

I found this picture that my grandaughter drew when she was 4. Lots of things still remind me of Timo - there's at least 3 or 4 things each day.

Fellowship

I officially start at Scion on Feb 1 after I have been to Wellington.Its starting to feel real at last -I can hardly wait for it all to start.

Christmas

My grandson took this photo of my nativity set which I set up for Christmas.

Reflection

I have been looking at some of the posters past Royal Society teaching Fellows have done about their work. I wonder what I will do.
It looks as if the start is the day on the 28 Jan 2011 called a symposium. I am going to have to look that word up as I don't know what it means (now there's a good start!!).
Good old google - I now know a symposium is a meeting or conference for discussion of a topic, especially one in which the participants form an audience and make a presentation. There is another symposium at the end on 15 July.
I put in the monarchs to remind me about lost ones who I am missing at this time of the year.

Holidays

Its taking a while to unwind after such a full on year -lots of low points so I am looking forward to 2011 as it can only get better. My holidays will largely be minding my family's animals while they go away for 25 days. I dont mind as i was doing nothing else. I like Porter the sausage dog and I will take her for lots of walks (which will be good for both of us.) Parrot and Chardonny (cats), 5 goldfish and Smokey the rabbit are not too much work.

Inquiry and science

I have just seen a post on BH's blog about an inquiry classroom. I am going to work hard in 2011 from term 3 to have a classroom like that. I will collect all sorts of interesting goodies to have in my inquiry room.

10.10.10

I finally posted my surfer photo and had a look at a few of the brillant photos. I see Helen Clark has taken part.I really need to take better photos. I tried to set up a wiki for my fellowship work but ran into problems with my first photo. I will ask for help.

Inquiry and science

I am looking forward to 2011 and after my science fellowship time I will be releasing teachers so I will have a different class each day. I want to make sure I combine science and inquiry. I have just been on Bruce's
http://leading-learning.blogspot.com and reading his wisdom about inquiry. I think we sometimes try and make it too complicated. I am looking forward to setting up my room for this type of learning.

Inquiry

My brother is a DP at a high school and he told me that their year 9's are going to be learning through inquiry next year.He sounds really excited about it and although its come from what is in the NZC he also said he saw how excited his own 3 primary school children were about their own learning and wanted their pupils (and staff) to be as excited about their learning. When he said that for social studies y9's had done Ancient Egypt for 'ever' and what relevance did that have for their kids and community I could hear LW's words about making learning rich, real and RELEVANT. I am going to have lots of chats with my brother to see how it is going.