As most of you know I am in my last semester of my Education degree and am doing my practicum. I just got my placement last night and I am going to Ottewell Junior High teaching grade 7-9 science and grade 9 health. I am very excited to be in a Jr. High, and have heard excellent things about the mentor teacher I will be having (which is such a relief since my last mentor teacher was not quite mentor quality).
School has been so busy for me this semester. Only two more weeks at the University and then I will start teaching. We have had some fun activities, like yesterday we went to the Telus World of Science Museum. It was great. I wish I could have had more time and that there wasn't an assignment attached to the trip. Among the many cool exhibitions they had a 'dognapping' crime scene room that was really cool and set up really nice, and a Body Works room. In the Body Works room they had all kinds of interesting facts about the body and a place were they had jars of all kinds of bodily fluids, like urine, spit, blood, poop, and more. I thought it was pretty cool. I also got to be a weather person and sit behind the green screen reading you the weather report. It was a good time, but now I better get back to my mountains of work I need to finish...
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I'm praying for the poor janitors at the Telus World of Science that one of those jars doesn't fall over and get broken. Can you imagine what a jar of old poop smells like? Do you think that maybe the scientists got together one wild night and decided that it would be funny to poop in a jar and in the morning they had to explain the damage they had done so they decided to make an exhibit out of it? ha ha I bet that's how it all began... :)
Good luck teaching those little darlings. My advice - understand that they have the attention span of a toddler except thier hormones make it worse so don't get discouraged if there are days that not much gets taught. You'll do great! Call me if you need advice on dicipline or anything else. I learned some really great tricks that worked when I was a teacher.
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