Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday-...

On Monday I started my day with a lesson with the 9th graders. They started a new topic today, school shootings. They had to look for some information about it on the internet.
Then I had a lesson with the 5th graders. They were still working with the texts about boarding schools. They got 2 pages with questions about the texts and they had to answer them. First they tried this without checking their textbooks, but that didn´t work. I was busy all the time. The pupils had questions all the time and if Karin, the teacher was busy, I helped them. It was really nice that they also wanted my help. Especially because then they also had to speak English and they didn´t mind !
In the 7th grade, the pupils continued working on their assignment of carnival. I think it will be a nice result. They have to be ready on Monday so we´ll see. I helped the pupils where necessary or just gave them some tips. I also had to solve a little problem. One group was quite small because the other group members weren´t in. At one point I heard them talking in Danish and afterwards one of them was crying. I didn´t know what happened so I asked the boy if he could come with me for a moment. He explained to me that they were saying he wasn´t doing anything and he was tired of hearing that. I asked him if he wanted to work and he said yes. Then I went to the group and told them that this was groupwork and they couldn´t complete the task if they didn´t work together. I said to them that they already had some great ideas and they were doing well, but they also had to be friendly against each other. They all looked a little bit guilty but I think I made my point clear.

Tuesday was just not my day. The 7th, 8th and 9th grade had a project day. They had to work together. Normally I had 1 lesson in the 7th grade but now it was cancelled. Three teachers would be in charge but one of them was ill, so I joined them instead.
The pupils were divided into groups. Every group consisted of pupils from the 7th, 8th and 9th grade. They had to make their own TV station. There were 4 groups who had an Australian TV station and 4 groups who had an American one. They had to have at least 4 interviews, they had to have a logo and a name for their station and they had to rewrite some newsitems. Every group got (up to date) newsitems and every hour or so, they got new news. I think this was really a nice activity. I had to walk around and help where necessary. But some of the pupils were very rude and didn´t want to listen to me. One group had 2 groupmembers who just walked around and they didn´t do anything. I told them that they had to get started but they didn´t. They were also making fun of me and so on, so that wasn´t a happy experience. I talked with the other teachers afterwards and maybe it was because they didn´t know who I was, but that doesn´t give them a reason to act like that.
I saw some presentations but I also had to attend a lesson in the 5th grade. There they had to sing an English song and translate it into Danish.

On Wednesday, the 9th graders continued searching information about school shooting and they had to make a short presentation about it. They were divided into groups and every group got a "continent" and the time: USA 60s-70s / USA 80s-90s/ USA 00 - now / Europe/ Canada/ Asia-Australia: They had to look for the number of incidents, how many people were killed and then they had to pick out one school shooting and explain a bit about it. Where did it happen, when, who did it, ...

On Thursday I started with cooking class. The pupils, including me ;)  had to make Greek food. This time I helped another group but it was a bit more difficult than the previous lesson. This group was a bit shy and so I didn´t always know what to do because the recipe was in Danish. Finally we managed to prepare everything on time and we ate it.
Today I will also meet my class of the 8th grade for the first time: We´ll see how that goes...

Now, it´s time for lunch ( or frokost in Danish)

Vi ses !