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 11

International week

Monday

Introduction to the study week with Jette, presentations, games for getting to know each
other
Language and identity: dancing line dances
Body language: work in groups
My first danish lesson: with Danish students
for the other students: The Danish education system, Treasure hunt-walk in Haderslev
evening at the college- eating together, singing songs

Tuesday

Intercultural competence and stereotypes
Rhymes and songs – learning and teaching potential, with Karen
Excursion to Ribe: the Vikings and the old Town of Ribe
(making easter bread for international day, watching movie)

Wednesday

school visits at local schools in groups with tutors
Reflections on the school experience

(dinner with our hosts-we made potatoes dumpling with ham and sauerkraut)

Thursday

Guest teacher-Vienna soundscape and fairytales
Festsalen: International afternoon (introduction Erasmus programme…)
Music evening at college: Friday Café + eating pizza + “Eurovision song contest”+ dancing and drinking in Crazy Daisy...It was really amazing evening, we (Kate,Iva and me) won
Eurovision song contest, we were singing, dancing, chating and smil

ing through the whole night...

Friday
Work on portfolio,works on our weblogs:experience form the school visits, the seminars and the social programme...
Presentations of our work and discussions of intercultural competence and language and culture
prepare light lunch
farewell lunch

In the evening we were expecting big visit. My boyfriend Otík and Iva's sister Petra came on time. They had to ride out a long travel through Germany.But then It was something like Christmas Eve, we said. Our home-folks came and they brought a lot of things from our country-some news, food, drinks, presents...All made me feel really happy.

Saturday
We took a walk through town and we had a rest after that.

Sunday
We went to sea to eastern shore. We walked along seaside. After we left to Christiansfeld for little snack in local café. We tasted gingerbread also.

WEEK 9

We enjoyed another nice and pleasant 7 days…

Monday we visited boarding school in Hoptrup. We gained a lot of new knowledge. The pupils in this art school were very open-minded, free and creative. The atmosphere was marked by friendships and conviviality. I think the photos say everything. We finished our trip at 6 p.m. at the Haderslev bus station, but nobody regretted it.

On Thusday in the morning we had our module 7 for a first time. Kate, Iva, Daniel and me, we chose English lessons with Jette, Charlotte chose music in Danish and Tim and Manu chose PE. It was a nice change; we could meet many another Danish students. We saw Monica and Carsten again. In our first lesson, we were talking about USA, their main symbols. In the afternoon, we had a very funny and nice Danish lesson. We learnt a lot of new words, only substantives. We played with cards in 2 groups. We tried to guess how are the things on the cards called and so on. In the evening we were finishing our project with Kate for next day for the lesson Aesthetic learning processes.

Fleming Rasmussen was waiting for us on the Wednesday morning. He told us how can art and aesthetics influence the learning processes…After him Else Marie’s lessons came. We performed our project live. I think it was really interesting to observe how the others are good in acting. In the afternoon we went to the gym.

special for you...Iva and Sylvie: Maculela

Thursday was very long and exciting day. In the morning we were talking about our Monday visit at boarding school with Torbjorn. We contrasted the differences between our school system and Danish school system. In the afternoon we had 2 and half English lessons, we learnt a song, played with USA map, we talked about American values and symbols again etc. In the evening three of us went to say good-bye to Finja and Borries, I was working on my thesis, Charlotte, Iva and Manu were tired. Really hard day.

Friday morning was about citizenship and globalism again. We were talking about our school systems and how to educate students to become active citizens in these dimensions: political and identity. And the main question of the day was what challenges do we consider to be some of the biggest today and how would we solve them…In the afternoon it was another Danish lesson.We tried to make up some simple sentences. In the evening we visited Friday café, just for chatting and drinking cheap beer.

Everybody except me went to Germany to shop for drinks and food on Saturday. At the weekend I was working on my thesis and doing other things for our lessons, and I cleaned up our flat.