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I hates report cards, yes I do! They were due in today (and I consequentally spent many nights up to all hours of the morning getting them finished. She didn't give us the stuff to do them until Friday last week), but I got a phone call from Agnes at 10am this morning (after I'd gone to bed at 6am).
Okay, I knew today that my boss wasn't going to be working (I was working for her 'cause she asked me to on Monday). The priest was coming around to do the yearly bless the house thing. The priest comes in, blesses your house, you feed him, then he leaves (it's good to be a priest in Poland). Anyway, I knew she wasn't going to be in so I'm not really sure why she didn't just say the cards were going to be due in on Monday instead of today last night. *sighs*
At least I got them done, that's one good thing ^___^
In other news we've been doing Robots in group F for the last couple of lessons. I bought my Transformers toys in to class. The kids thought they were really cool.
Cody, who doesn't usually speak up that much, really made an effort to speak. He was grabbing the dictionary and having a wonderful conversation with me about how he's got the games for DS and his PSP and how his brother has two of the toys. I pull out my G1 Prowl and he started bouncing up and down and going "He was in movie!" (I let him know that that was a different 'Bot).
I start pulling out my other toys (Cody labeled my Thundercracker as Starscream) and the kids came over and crowded the desk to see what I had. I told them all their names and Pawel, who never speaks unless you ask him a question calls out "Jazz!" when I pull my Jazz out.
Then the kids decide that, since there were the same number of 'Bots and 'Cons as students, each of my toys is actually one of us. I was declared "Prowl" as he was the biggest and a police car to boot *laughs*. The most annoying little shite in the class was given Megatron, you get the idea *grins*.
Oh, my sms tone on my phone is the sound of a Cybertronian transforming (one of my friends downloaded it and then sent it to me). Cody's heard it a couple of times. He asked me if I could send it to him via bluetooth. I did, and I've never seen him look so happy. He must've played the sound with the phone up to his ear at least 8 times in quick succession.
Today we were continuing with the Robot theme so I bought my Transformers back to class. I even bought my little Starscream today 'cause I hadn't bought him last lesson and they pretty much demanded that I bring him on Friday *laughs*. Cody was already at the school when I got there, sitting on the floor and playing on a PSP. He'd bought it along with his Transformers game to show me (and kept trying to get me to play it during the lesson while the kids were doing an activity). Today they had to design a robot that would do a job that they hate and then give it a name and a description.
Cody ended up with DeceptiBot. Half Decepticon half Autobot. The Autobot side does the cleaning, the Decepticon side is... a little psycho. He was grabbing my toys off the desk (Jazz and Thundercracker) to make sure he was getting the symbols correct and everything. When he was finished he gave me a long (for him) talk on what each bit on the robot could do.
Considering that before this lesson he didn't really talk, just sat there and doodled, I'm quite proud of him. I guess I just had to find a subject he was interested in to get him to talk.
*EDIT*
I forgot to tell you about group J's latest antics *grins*.
So, there werent as many of them there last night. Adam was absent (he's the oddest of them) and I'm not quite sure where Anna was either.
It was a grammar lesson. Not my favourite subject in the world (It's like math for English!), let me tell you. Iwona loves grammar. She was bouncing in her seat when I mentioned that it was a grammar lesson. The class proceeded to tease her about that, in English, for the rest of the lesson.
Zbigniew was flicking through the picture pages of the dictionary. Patryk declared that he liked the picture pages 'cause he couldn't read. Zbigniew kicked him. Of course the whole kicking of Patryk thing was kinda muted when he found the colour wheel and sounded far too excited "Oh! colours!!!!" and started studying it intently. The rest of the class just laughed (Patryk smacked himself on the forehead and muttered something in Polish under his breath).
I have brain to blackboard issues (brain to paper/computer screen is generally no problems at all). I know what I want to write in my head, but getting that to translate to the blackboard sometimes is a bit of a problem. For example I may want to write "I went running in the park yesterday"... what ends up on the board is more like "I runnig the par yeterda" (I did a couple of spectacular ones during my CELTA course that my teacher had to point out. I got a rather long talk on how I had to pay attention to what I'm writing blah blah blah). I don't do it very often 'cause I try to watch myself like a hawk (I'm quite aware of the problem and make sure to be very careful in the classroom), but yesterday... well I was probably tired from staying up late doing report cards. I made a little goof on the board (Spelling and letter switching. Nothing was missing). Jarek pointed it out straight away but I couldn't see it for the life of me. It took him reading out the sentence and then spelling out the problem for me to spot it.
*looks sheepish* I haven't done that in ages.
I told the class that if they ever spot me doing something like that please let me know 'cause I'm aware of the problem and sometimes don't know that I'm doing it. Iwona got really, really interested and started firing a lot of questions at me. Stuff like "can you count?" "Do you like/are you good at math?" that sort of thing. Gave her my answers ("Yes" and "I despise it/am hopless at it"). She then gets really excited and goes "Oh! You've got *insert Polish term for some sort of disorder here*" (Iwona is some sort of doctor/psychologist thingy).
Turns out she was saying Dysorthography. I googled the phonetics of what I'd heard her say and that's what the search engine came up with.
Apart from that it was the usual lesson of laughter and teasing that Group J always seems to do.
Oh, and Group D wants to have the last class of the term in a cafe or restaurant. Sounds like fun.
Okay, I knew today that my boss wasn't going to be working (I was working for her 'cause she asked me to on Monday). The priest was coming around to do the yearly bless the house thing. The priest comes in, blesses your house, you feed him, then he leaves (it's good to be a priest in Poland). Anyway, I knew she wasn't going to be in so I'm not really sure why she didn't just say the cards were going to be due in on Monday instead of today last night. *sighs*
At least I got them done, that's one good thing ^___^
In other news we've been doing Robots in group F for the last couple of lessons. I bought my Transformers toys in to class. The kids thought they were really cool.
Cody, who doesn't usually speak up that much, really made an effort to speak. He was grabbing the dictionary and having a wonderful conversation with me about how he's got the games for DS and his PSP and how his brother has two of the toys. I pull out my G1 Prowl and he started bouncing up and down and going "He was in movie!" (I let him know that that was a different 'Bot).
I start pulling out my other toys (Cody labeled my Thundercracker as Starscream) and the kids came over and crowded the desk to see what I had. I told them all their names and Pawel, who never speaks unless you ask him a question calls out "Jazz!" when I pull my Jazz out.
Then the kids decide that, since there were the same number of 'Bots and 'Cons as students, each of my toys is actually one of us. I was declared "Prowl" as he was the biggest and a police car to boot *laughs*. The most annoying little shite in the class was given Megatron, you get the idea *grins*.
Oh, my sms tone on my phone is the sound of a Cybertronian transforming (one of my friends downloaded it and then sent it to me). Cody's heard it a couple of times. He asked me if I could send it to him via bluetooth. I did, and I've never seen him look so happy. He must've played the sound with the phone up to his ear at least 8 times in quick succession.
Today we were continuing with the Robot theme so I bought my Transformers back to class. I even bought my little Starscream today 'cause I hadn't bought him last lesson and they pretty much demanded that I bring him on Friday *laughs*. Cody was already at the school when I got there, sitting on the floor and playing on a PSP. He'd bought it along with his Transformers game to show me (and kept trying to get me to play it during the lesson while the kids were doing an activity). Today they had to design a robot that would do a job that they hate and then give it a name and a description.
Cody ended up with DeceptiBot. Half Decepticon half Autobot. The Autobot side does the cleaning, the Decepticon side is... a little psycho. He was grabbing my toys off the desk (Jazz and Thundercracker) to make sure he was getting the symbols correct and everything. When he was finished he gave me a long (for him) talk on what each bit on the robot could do.
Considering that before this lesson he didn't really talk, just sat there and doodled, I'm quite proud of him. I guess I just had to find a subject he was interested in to get him to talk.
*EDIT*
I forgot to tell you about group J's latest antics *grins*.
So, there werent as many of them there last night. Adam was absent (he's the oddest of them) and I'm not quite sure where Anna was either.
It was a grammar lesson. Not my favourite subject in the world (It's like math for English!), let me tell you. Iwona loves grammar. She was bouncing in her seat when I mentioned that it was a grammar lesson. The class proceeded to tease her about that, in English, for the rest of the lesson.
Zbigniew was flicking through the picture pages of the dictionary. Patryk declared that he liked the picture pages 'cause he couldn't read. Zbigniew kicked him. Of course the whole kicking of Patryk thing was kinda muted when he found the colour wheel and sounded far too excited "Oh! colours!!!!" and started studying it intently. The rest of the class just laughed (Patryk smacked himself on the forehead and muttered something in Polish under his breath).
I have brain to blackboard issues (brain to paper/computer screen is generally no problems at all). I know what I want to write in my head, but getting that to translate to the blackboard sometimes is a bit of a problem. For example I may want to write "I went running in the park yesterday"... what ends up on the board is more like "I runnig the par yeterda" (I did a couple of spectacular ones during my CELTA course that my teacher had to point out. I got a rather long talk on how I had to pay attention to what I'm writing blah blah blah). I don't do it very often 'cause I try to watch myself like a hawk (I'm quite aware of the problem and make sure to be very careful in the classroom), but yesterday... well I was probably tired from staying up late doing report cards. I made a little goof on the board (Spelling and letter switching. Nothing was missing). Jarek pointed it out straight away but I couldn't see it for the life of me. It took him reading out the sentence and then spelling out the problem for me to spot it.
*looks sheepish* I haven't done that in ages.
I told the class that if they ever spot me doing something like that please let me know 'cause I'm aware of the problem and sometimes don't know that I'm doing it. Iwona got really, really interested and started firing a lot of questions at me. Stuff like "can you count?" "Do you like/are you good at math?" that sort of thing. Gave her my answers ("Yes" and "I despise it/am hopless at it"). She then gets really excited and goes "Oh! You've got *insert Polish term for some sort of disorder here*" (Iwona is some sort of doctor/psychologist thingy).
Turns out she was saying Dysorthography. I googled the phonetics of what I'd heard her say and that's what the search engine came up with.
Apart from that it was the usual lesson of laughter and teasing that Group J always seems to do.
Oh, and Group D wants to have the last class of the term in a cafe or restaurant. Sounds like fun.
