WEEK 17

The last week in pictures :-)

Farewell dinner

Trip to Aaro

Great dinner with Jette and her husband


Gala party

Our practice: Pieces of knowledge

• Pupils always call teachers by first name, teachers are very kind, honest and open-minded.
• Ann-Mari and all other teachers seem they are truly enjoying their jobs, (Ann-Mari was even jumping the rope with 3rd class pupils)
• Children are allowed to go out to backyard and play in the gaps between the lessons.
• School has 25 laptops available and children are free to use them. When teacher wants to borrow them for her students, she has to reserve them first though.
  

• Every day during the first break (from 8:45 till 9:00) is prayer time. They sing, pray and thank god.
• In contrast with the Czech republic, they don’t use the class-book in lessons but every single teacher has a notebook for notes, lesson schedule etc.
• The grades up to seventh class in the english lessons are A, B, C, D (I’m good at understanding, reading, telling (A-almost all the time, B-most of the time, C-sometimes, D-hardly ever). From seventh class on grades are 1-5 (official marks are up to 12 – 6 means passed, 12 is the best grade and 0-6 failed)
• When children are really naughty, they got locked up into a special glass-room called “telephone room”

Music lesson with Ann Mari



English lesson with Else-song about bear

WEEK 16

Monday
Danish in 3^rd class: dictates check up, reading with questions
English in 4^th class: song about ZOO-singing with cassette recorder, working with textbook (Come to party- Invitations), describing house (pupils have to colour the house)
English in 3^rd class: house- names of rooms in a house, song about family members, song about bear (with movements)
English in 7^th class: our lesson:
1) crosswords: LONDON (irregular verbs)
2) brainstorming about London
3) powerpoint presentation - questions- what would you like visit there and why?
4) task for Thursday (make presentation about London)

Tuesday
Music in 3^rd class: singing songs, playing music instruments-flues, dancing and singing in line
Danish in 3^rd class: reading book, diary
In the afternoon I went to the gym with Iva.

Wednesday
Danish in 3^rd class (2 lessons): reading diaries, work in groups (work on PC)
“party” - making cakes, eating, singing song, playing games outside (colours, animals)
English in 7^th class: our lesson
1) test- irregular verbs (by Else)
2) games - scrambled letters (revision of sights)
3) power point presentation - British royal family
4) movie - Mr.Bean meets Queen

We (Kate, Iva and me) went for great lunch and then we went to buy some presents for Thora.

Thursday
English in 7^th class: our lesson
1) making projects about London
2) presentation of projects
English in 4^th class: reading dialogues, working with exercises book, houses - looking for right house
English in 3^rd class: talking about rooms in a house, playing games
Then we said good-bye to teachers and pupils. We also brought some sweets and biscuits for them. Practice was very nice a sententious and benefiting.

Friday
I didn’t feel very well, so I stayed in bed for almost whole day. In the afternoon we prepared huge dinner for our guests -Jette, Thora, Mette, Lase, Cristina, Carsten. The dinner was great, we prepared salmon, meat bolls with rice, pasta salad with tuna, pasta salad with olives and tomatoes, vegetable salad,.. for desert it was chocolate mouse and strawberries with cream, kuskus with fruits, …and a lot of other things like tortillas, salty sticks, biscuits. We also offered some typical Czech dish (utopence, olomoucké syrečky, lovecký salám, becherovka, slivovice) I think it was delicious and we had a lovely evening with nice people.

Saturday
For lunch we ate some dinner remains and in the afternoon we cleaned Iva´s and Charlotte´s place after yesterays dinner a bit. We also watched some movie. In the evening we left for Thora´s birthday party.

WEEK 15

Monday

Danish in 3^rd class: talking about pupils´ weekend, dictates check-up (teacher explain how to write the words correct), reading with questions (throwing the small bag), singing

English in 4^thclass: reading project (new books)

English in 3^rd class: singing with movements, houses introduction (colours, parts of house, garden), revision of family members, singing (song about family members - with movements - outside,jumping)

English in 7^th class: powerpoint presentation: Children in Tanzania, reading project

In the afternoon I went to the gym and I had a rest and watched a movie.

Tuesday

Music in 3^rd class: singing songs, playing the music instruments

Danish in 3^rd class: reading book, listening to story

Wednesday

Danish in 3^rd class (2 lessons): singing- Michael´s birthday, talking about hobbies, writing about hobbies

English in 7^th class: verbs test, reading project

Thursday

English in 7^th class: test (irregular verbs), some excersises, finishing the reading project- teacher asks them how they liked it and so on.

English in 4^th class: finishing the reading project

English in 3^rd class: singing song about spider, introducing houses, writing about pupil´s houses- filling gap

Friday

Danish in 3^rd class: visit to the school library, reading book, writing dictation

In the afternoon I went to the gym. In the evening we (Iva, Charlotte, me, Manu) had nice evening with movie and wine. After that we left to visit Raz for a while.

Saturday

Thora, Iva and me, we left to Vojens for swimming pool. We enjoyed it very much. We were swimming, we relaxed in whirpool and sauna and we also tried switch back. In the evening we went at thora’s for the movie night. She treated us really nice, she prepared something for drink, chips, peanuts, fruits etc. We were watching Moulin Rouge and The last dance. We went to bed about 1a.m., but it was really fain day.

Sunday

We got up early and left to trip with Thora and Lasse. We visited a lot of places, and we also saw Thora´s horses. It the afternoon we planned our on-coming dinner. And me, Iva and Charlotte, we were talking about our Monday English lesson.

WEEK 14

OUR SCHOOL PRACTICE

Monday

In the morning, however I had to say goodbye to my boyfriend. He had to go back to the Czech Republic. Then I went with Iva and Charlotte to the school for our practice. It is going to take almost 3 weeks. We will do our school practice at nice place- Kristne Friskole in Haderslev (see my favorite links) near our school. We met nice people there: Else Wive-she is English teacher in 3^rd , 4^th and 7^th class and Ann-Mari Nielsen who is Danish and music teacher. We visited English lessons in 3^th (first year of English) and 7^th class. We planned our teaching and what we would like to teach. We decided to teach subject matter: London in 7^th class.

English in 3^rd class: singing a song (animals and colors), playing with the puppet Sophie (introduction), learning new words about houses using pictures of houses (chimney, windows, door, roof and so on) guessing and describing their house (My house is…, My house has…) , creating own model of house (painting, cutting and glueing)

English in 7^th class: beginning of reading project: choosing book, reading and writing report about it (individually and silently). Books for choice: Mr. Jealous, Smile, Please, Robinson Crusoe, Fly away

In the afternoon and in the evening I worked on my thesis.

Tuesday

We visited music and English lesson in the 3^rd class. The music classroom was huge and well equipped and I think it is very good for children.

Music in 3^rd class: singing songs, dancing in pairs and groups (polonaise, line dance)

Danish in 3^th class: reading book (Efterskoletid) with article about hobbies, talking about pupil’s hobbies (special story chair for it, the other children sit on the floor and listen), writing their hobbies on the blackboard and working with computers (laptops)!!

Wednesday

Danish in 3^rd class (2 lessons): introduction ourselves, work in groups, reading the books, writing about hobbies into computers

English in 7^th class: writing a test (irregular verbs), reading project

In the evening we went at Thora´s place to talk about our plans for further weeks. We planned a lot of activities like trips, party, bowling, celebrations and so on…

Thursday

English in 7^th class: test assesment (with no marks!) reading project

English in 4^th class: summary (months), reading project

English in 3^rd class: houses, gardens (we could ask children something about their houses- colours, numbers…)

Friday

Danish in 3^rd class (2 lessons): visiting school library- learning and returning books, filling words into gaps-dictation, reading and talking-questions about text, work on laptops.

In the evening we left to Friday café where was ugly party. Manu participated in one funny contest who can finish cake and beer as soon as possible. Unfortunately he didn´t win but it was really enjoyable to watch. After that the best mask was announced. And another contests followed, beer like etc. We had a nice time there.

At weekend I worked on my thesis and I finally finished it.

WEEK 13

Monday

It was Easter Monday. In our country we have tradition which allows boys to whip girls on their back with “Easter wand” and carol ...so in the morning my boyfriend whipped me and I gave him chocolate ram for that. In the afternoon we had a rest after exciting week.

Tuesday

Otík and me, we went to Legoland in Billund where we spent whole day. We explored “Miniland” where we saw towns from Denmark and other countries such Holland, Norway, Sweden, Japan, Austria and Germany. All made of Lego. We visited sea world and aquarium (with real sharks and rays), we sailed on boats in pirate’s world, we went by train trough the rocks, we sailed on a boat around the Statue of Liberty, White house, Valley of the kings, Acropolis and so on. We also tried roller coaster and power builder for two times. It was really great for the first time, but the second time gave me a headache and stomachache. Despite of this, it was really great!!

Wednesday

After 10 days of holiday, it was school again. We had Else Marie and we made some music project. We tried to tell music story accordance with picture of animal, our group had snake. We were singing our names in the rhythm, we were telling a short story with music instruments and so on. It was really interesting. In the evening we went for dinner at Thore’s. Thore prepared great meal for us. It was kebab with a lot of kinds of vegetables and meats and delicious ice-cream with chocolate sauce for dessert. Then we were watching friendly football game The Czech Republic vs. Denmark. It finished with draw.

Thursday

I didn´t feel well, I had a headache, so I stayed in the bed whole day and I was sleeping.

Friday

In the morning we had lessons with Thorbjern about our coming practice. Afterwards we went with Jette for excursion. We visited castle in Sonderborg and physical centre in Danfoss. On our way back we also visited old mill and the battle ground. In the evening I felt asleep because I was very tired after this day.

Saturday

Another trip was planned. We were invited at Hanne’s to Kolding. I would like to thank her and her family again, because it was really amazing day. Hanne prepared lunch for us (vegetable salad, smoked lamb, fish, cheese, several kinds of bread, after tea, coffee and chocolate…). Then she took us to the city centre, she showed us a castle, lake, the library and so on. It was really nice. In the evening we watched some movie.

Sunday

It was the last day with my boyfriend. We went to the coast again, because both of us love sea and the beach. We left to Hejsager Strand, we took a walk along the coast and made some photos…beautiful ending of Otik’s stay here. In the evening we went to the restaurant for our last dinner where we ate delicious pizza.

WEEK 12

Trips and fun
We had a week full of traveling around Denmark :-)
We visited big cities and the small towns as well. We knew some new things, people and places..and finally we have already known what sun means here in Denmark because sun was shining almost whole week...Now it's sunday night and it's snowing...

Monday: Lögumkloster, Mögletönder, Tönder


There aren't many places in the world where you could feel like you're in fairytales...We visited such place. Little coloured houses with strawy roofs and small benches. Whole street lined by trees and lamps...


Tuesday: Egeskov and Odense

At first we left to Egeskov, the most beautiful castle in Denmark, but unfortunately it was closed. In Odense we visited Hans Christian Andersen's museum, we saw his house, botanic gardens and a lot of churches...We met Daniel and his friends, Tim and Finja there. In the end it was unpleasant report for us. We got fined for parking... But it was nice day after all.

Wednesday: Haderslev-harbor and great dinner

On Wednesday we had the day off, so we went to the harbor in Haderslev. It was nice weather again and we had really nice walk. We had a plan for the evening so we went to buy some drinks and food because we were invited for dinner at Tim's place. We were 12 persons at he table. Fresh salad and brusketa with tomatoes as starter, a lot of kinds of pizza (tuna, salami, ham, cheese, vegetables, champions, ...) and pancakes with strawberry jam and sirup at the end. It was fine evening. The others continued in Tribunen after dinner where was night concert. We went to sleep because we were very tired and we had to get up early on Thursday...for next trip...

Thursday: Arhus

On Thursday it was our journey to Arhus, to northernmost place of our plans. At first traffic jam waited for us. It took about 1 hour. At first we wanted to see mummy of 2000 years old man. But price wasn't so low, so we walked around areal and we saw some viking and thailand's houses at least. We visited open-air museum Den Gamble By, so it was main event of the day. We spent almost 3 hours there, we could see lifestyle in H.C.Andersen's era. Because Thursday was feast day, most of sights were closed.


Friday: Ribe and Esbjerg

Our last big trip in this week was on programme on Friday. At first we left to Ribe. We have already visited this town with other students during international week but we wanted to see more than we saw last time. We took a walk through the town. We walked in nice streets, we visited some shops with design products. After we tasted chococafe and hot chocolade in cute café. And than we visited church finally, because in the morning it was closed for devine servise here. Otík and me, we walked up the church tower and we watched surroundings from bird's-eye view. About 1 p.m. we left to Esbjerg (fishing port, funcionalistic bulding of the town hall). City was quite quiet. But we wanted to see ocean so we went to the seaside and we found big statues and amazing view on Atlantic ocean. Because it's strange to be in coats at sea shore we had to take them off and just lied down to sand...as you can see on the picture.

Saturday: Birthday party

On Saturday it was our celebration day. Iva and me we celebrated our birthdays. We had the party at our place, Thora, Tim and his friend Frederik came too. It was fine evening.

Sunday: Deer park

We left to the deer park near Haderslev in the afternoon. We took a walk and we found some deers...