Hey everybody. It is nice to be in Zürich. The weather is so nice!
I was teaching on Tuesday again. I am really thanks-full to the practice teacher for letting me teach when i want to teach. It is a very good experience really and a challenge. But for me it have passed the challenge and i have a good place in the classroom enviroment now.
I was teaching English in the 3th lesson. I continued the topic from last week about transport and now I was teaching the children about specific transports. This lesson I was teaching them about the bicycle. They were learning a lot of words connected to a bicycle as “It’s got two wheels to move” or “It has a light to see in the night”. I was very surprised that I turned out to be a good lesson. In the start I had a very negative meaning about the English school books in the 3th grade, but they are actually quite good because the children are really learning. And often I choose to do a repetition about what they did last time and they all seem to remember very well as what they did and all the English words and pronunciation. It is either a bunch of clever 3th graders or the books are very effective in learning.
In the 4th lesson I did some special teaching with a boy who has difficulties in Math. The teacher wanted to get him concentrated and asked me to do the Math activities with him in another room so he could get the special help he needs in math. As I was with him in the room I couldn’t really understand why the teacher mentioned that he has difficulties because he was doing the questions quite good. But maybe it is a question about his concentration and maybe he works better when they isn’t other people around him to disturb his concentration.
I have also a very good bond with the pupils now. Yeah i will miss them and escpecially playing football with the. It is so funny!
In the 6th lesson it was really good weather so the teacher asked to take the children, those who wanted, to play football outside. I really feel the children and I have created a close bond and we were having fun. They were so anxious to prove that they were good football players so they really used all their energy!
Yesterday we grilled with our friends from the residence. They are really good guys and we have friends for life we feel. Yes we will also miss them a lot and having them around!
All from me know!
