At last, one of the schools I have been working for in Wanganui has paid me. Jolly good thing too, as I have also just written out a lot of cheques. Its a hand to mouth existence for us and will be for a while. I surely hope that the school will have something for me to do next term, cos otherwise I will be back to the cleaning. It looks like it will be easy to keep employed - there are a few ads for labour like mine in the cleaning field. But teaching is definitely more lucrative.
Gave kids some colouring in to do this afternoon and was amazed and dumbstruck by their response - they sat quietly, put lots of effort into making the flowers look good and seemed to enjoy it. I must remember not to underestimate the thrill of having something that looks good in their books.
Posted by Toni at May 25, 2005 09:36 PMHow many schools are you working for? I like colouring, but I know that they get to do stuff like that in RE quite alot. Today period 5 we spent over 30min watching the Private Life of Plants... I love that video. They are always sooo disgusted by the fungi! The other day I spent 10min telling the same class why I had shaved my head at Uni and what it was like... soooo scientific. I'm pretty sure they thought they were getting away with not doing work, but I didn't have anything to give them! Also, they were completely focussed, rapt with my description of the whole circumstance. Very relaxing.
Posted by: Giffy at May 26, 2005 07:14 PM