The child's joy is the World's joy

Hallo alles zusammen :) A little german can't hurt..

Well, not really anything new to tell about the courses as they are running as i described before.

- Well, this course Multilingulism is quite exciting. Especially when you are living in Swizterland. Switzerland is a very billingual country as they have 4 offical langauges(German, French, Italian and Romanic) and these langauges have different dialects depending on which part of Switzerland. So sometimes german speaking from Zürich have difficulties by understanding other German speakers from another part. So we are learning on the fact of being bilingual and taking a lot of examples from Swizterland which is perfect example of this. And a guy from my class is a rapper and is in a upcoming band(LDDC) in Switzterland. They are 3 guys(a Dj , spanish rapper and english rapper). The guy from my class is rapping in English of course. They are very bilingual band as they rap in different langauges and he is going to make a presentation about his Band. They also had a rapper that was rapping on French but he died. So this is a song they made for his memory. Tunicolo, listen to it!

- I had a presentation in the course Children's Literature. I had to present a children book and tell about which criteria the book is using according to the list we got from our teacher. I presented a book from a russian author (Valery Carrick) "Picture Folk-Tales". These book is something i can suggest to other teachers. All the different stories can be used for a whole lesson. It involves a lot of moral values and this was also the big plan from Valery Carrick. He heard the stories as a child so it had a big influence on his growing up. The stories contains animals who are speaking and behaving like people. So it is a fantasy world, but the children can really learn from this experiences of the animals and therefor a teacher can use it as teacher material in some context. The adequacy of pictures is perfect and it gives the child a perfect space for it's imagination. The book is for small children(If english is their mother langauge). But for danish children it is possible from 3rd-6th grade. It is important for us as teachers to give the children some books they can enjoy. If a child is enjoying , it's surroundings will be happy. Thats what i mean when i say that "A child's joy is the world's joy"


These week my practice was just observation. Only thing i can say is that i miss ice-breakers and or some active activities in the classroom. MOVEMENT!

Alen Mandzo