Monday, 28 April 2008
Saturday, 19 April 2008
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 3rd class: dictates check up, reading with questions
English in 4th 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 3rd class: house- names of rooms in a house, song about family members, song about bear (with movements)
English in 7th 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 3rd class: singing songs, playing music instruments-flues, dancing and singing in line
Danish in 3rd class: reading book, diary
In the afternoon I went to the gym with Iva.
Wednesday
Danish in 3rd class (2 lessons): reading diaries, work in groups (work on PC)“party” - making cakes, eating, singing song, playing games outside (colours, animals)
English in 7th 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 7th class: our lesson
1) making projects about London
2) presentation of projects
English in 4th class: reading dialogues, working with exercises book, houses - looking for right house
English in 3rd 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
Danish in 3rd 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 4thclass: reading project (new books)
English in 3rd 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 7th 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 3rd class: singing songs, playing the music instruments
Danish in 3rd class: reading book, listening to story
Wednesday
Danish in 3rd class (2 lessons): singing- Michael´s birthday, talking about hobbies, writing about hobbies
English in 7th class: verbs test, reading project
Thursday
English in 7th class: test (irregular verbs), some excersises, finishing the reading project- teacher asks them how they liked it and so on.
English in 4th class: finishing the reading project
English in 3rd class: singing song about spider, introducing houses, writing about pupil´s houses- filling gap
Danish in 3rd class: visit to the school library, reading book, writing dictation
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.
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.
Sunday, 13 April 2008
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 3rd , 4th and 7th class and Ann-Mari Nielsen who is Danish and music teacher. We visited English lessons in 3th (first year of English) and 7th class. We planned our teaching and what we would like to teach. We decided to teach subject matter: London in 7th class.
English in 3rd 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 7th 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 3rd class. The music classroom was huge and well equipped and I think it is very good for children.
Music in 3rd class: singing songs, dancing in pairs and groups (polonaise, line dance)
Danish in 3th 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 3rd class (2 lessons): introduction ourselves, work in groups, reading the books, writing about hobbies into computers
English in 7th 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 7th class: test assesment (with no marks!) reading project
English in 4th class: summary (months), reading project
English in 3rd class: houses, gardens (we could ask children something about their houses- colours, numbers…)
Friday
Danish in 3rd 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.
Thursday, 3 April 2008
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 ,
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.
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 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.
Sunday, 23 March 2008
WEEK 12
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
Wednesday: Haderslev-harbor and great dinner
On Wednesday we had the day off, so we went to the harbor in Haderslev.
Thursday: Arhus
On Thursday
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
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...
Thursday, 13 March 2008
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
(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...
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.
Sunday, 9 March 2008
WEEK 10
On the Monday morning we had lesson of comparative studies with Tove Heideman. In the afternoon, it was citizenship with Torbjorn. After school I went to exercise to the gym and in the evening I had a rest.
On Tuesday we had English lesson. We were talking about how to learn vocabulary, we played some games to train our memory. We made analysis of painting. Our group had picture called Nighthawks of Edward Hopper. In the afternoon we had the last Danish lesson. We learnt new words, some food and drinks. Sheila and Leif brought some cookies and tea for us. It was very nice of them.
I woke up with terrible sore throat on Wednesday. I went to the school only for 2 lessons. It was dancing lessons, but I wasn’t dancing, I only took pictures of the others. They were trying to dance some country dances and tango. It was fine but in the afternoon I had to go to bed, I felt really bad. The others made up some new dances, they made movies of it. They are great!!
On Thursday morning I had a higher temperature and I had a cold, but I got up because I want to see another school which Jette has chosen for us for our practice. It is the biggest public school in Haderslev called St. Severin school. Iva, Manu, Tim and me, we visited two English lessons. Teachers were very nice and opened with us as well as with their pupils.
After practice I went home, the others had music concert at school and the English lesson. In the evening they went to the Tribunen for quiz with Mette. Because I felt very sick I stayed at home till the end of the week. But it was pity because the others had really full programme every day which I stayed in bed. For example karaoke party on Friday, where Kate was singing too!!! But obviously the winner was Daniel because his singing is just perfect.
On Saturday Kate, Iva, Finja, Tim and Daniel went to the trip to Jels and Christiansfeld. In the evening, there was a party at Iva’s and Charlotte’s place along with Lasse’s music group concert in the pub. On Sunday I was reading books for my thesis for whole day.
Sunday, 2 March 2008
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,
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
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
Sunday, 24 February 2008
WEEK 8
Monday was the beginning of the new week full of adventure. In the morning we had lessons of the Danish education and Danish history. In the afternoon we visited gym for our next hard exercises and in the evening I watched a movie and had a rest.
On Tuesday we were planning our visit to Danish school for the next week with our teacher Torbjorn. In the afternoon we met another German students Finja and Borries, who are studying for 2 weeks in Haderslev. Then we had another danish lessons. We tried to learn how to say „how are you?“ „I’m fain“ and so on. We learnt some new verbs as well. In the afternoon I worked on my thesis. It will still take some more time.
Like every Wednesday it was an art day again. Dorthe, nice teacher, took us to the world full of colours and impressions. Mirrors and portraits was the name of our morning lesson. We were painting faces of each other and ourselves. We painted them on the papers on mirrors. I suppose everyone was excited and we could keep our work. In the afternoon we had a big objective, we had to cook some of our delicious national meal. I prepared potatoes pancakes, Iva cooked fruit-staffed dumplings and Kate prepared Czech potatoes soup. The others had their specialties too. It was a really nice banquet and then we went shopping with the full bellies. It was smart idea, because we didn’t buy that muchJ
On Thursday I slept for long, I was really tired. Our lessons started in the afternoon, so it was just a strain. We had an interesting presentation in powerpoint by Thosten Piske. It was called Bilinqual Language Acquisition. In the afternoon we wanted to have a rest for a while, because of the great evening in the Crazy Daisy. It’s disco club in the centre of Haderslev and it’s charge free on Thursday onlyJ We spent there only 2 hours but I think It was such a different way how we could enjoy our leisure time just for a once time.
On Friday we were a little bit tired because of our staying in Crazy Daisy, but we had history lesson in the morning, so we went to the school, but for 2 and half hours only. In the afternoon me, Kate and Iva, we went to the shops to find some surprises for our honourees (Charlotte, Daniel and Tim) for the Saturday birthday party. And then I spent the whole afternoon in bed, because I felt sick and really tired.
In the Saturday morning I went to the gym where I met Kate. And in the afternoon Iva, Kate and me, we were cooking our puddings for honourees and we packed our gifts, inflated little balloons..and so on. The birthday party started at 7 p.m. and it was reaaaaaly great celebration. Daniel, Charlotte and Tim prepared amazi
ng dinner for us. It was tomatoe soup with cream and baguettes, after pasta with vegetables and cheese, the main dish was meat balls with rice and slice of squash with feta cheese and olives, almonds, tomatoes…it was deliciou
s, mmm. Like desert cake made by Daniel for Charlotte, and some cookies and chocolate mouse…really exquisite. For drink just wine. We enjoyed our time together very much.
On Sunday all of us slept for very long time. Daniel, Iva, Kate and me, we left to
the Haderslev dam at 1p.m. and we had a nice walk which took 2 hours. Finja joined us. In the evening we worked on our projects for music class. It was really
funny. And I worked on my weblogs.
See you… Have a nice week.
Sunday, 17 February 2008
WEEK 7
On Monday, we had danish lesson with Sheila, we took through some phrases and we leart some new words and numbers. Later on we visited a nice café in the centre of Haderslev - Papa’s café where we were supposed to try to order our drink in danish. In the afternoon we had meeting with Carsten who is our guide to Copenhagen and we planned our trip there. In the evening we were watching movie at our place.
On the Thursday morning at penhagen for the next three days. We have visited a lot of historical and interesting places there. The most interesting places for me were the national library and Black Diamond, Cristiania Quarter, the national museum… and so on. We had a buffet- lunch in the amazing place called Rizraz. Did we enjoy it ?? Very much!! However Unfortunately my wallet has been stolen in Copenhagen
, so I got known the danish police too. Monica and Carsten were very helpful and nice to me in this situation. I would like to thank especially to Iva, Kate and Daniel for helping me out. Despite of this horrible experience I enjoyed the trip and I can say that Copenhagen is beautifull city.
Friday was resting day at all. I tried to work on my thesis and I watched some movies.
On Saturday, Kate, Iva and me went shopping some presents for Charlotte, Tim and Daniel,who are going to celebrate their‘s birthday next week. In the afternoon we practised pilates at our place and I was working on my thesis again.
On Sunday, I was writing new notes for my weblog, and we, the czech girls, prepaired our presentation about the Czech Republic.
Sunday, 10 February 2008
WEEK 6
Monday, it was work on our weblogs and then we had a chat about the danish school system and cultural dimensions with our tutor Jette. Danish school system is similar to ours but we can find there a few differences. In the afternoon we took a walk with Jette around Haderslev. She showed us many interesting places such shops and sights.
Tuesday was very interesting day too. In the morning we learnt something new about danish storytellers, especially about Hans Christian Andersen. We tried to retell some of his fairy tales. Kate, Iva and me, we were talking about fairy tale called „The Story of mother“.
In the same day, first Danish language lesson was waiting for us. We learnt how to say „hello“, „goodbye“, „what’s your name“, „my name is“, „I live in“ and so on in danish.
(Dav!Jeg hedder Sylvie. Jeg bor i Tjekiet – Hi! My name is Sylvie. I live in The Czech RepublicJ)
Our teachers Sheila and Lejf were very nice to us. The last lesson of this day was „Language and Identity“ with international students. It was lesson full of thinking about our knowledge of languages and about our native language. We used colors for expression of our feelings. It was really exciting day.
On Wednesday, we had a lot of fun. Within the module 2 „Aesthetic learning processes“ we were dancing, telling a story with noise, singing english and african songs, we tried mime-play and drawing abstract pictures accordance with certain piece. We also got a present – flute and homework - listen to the music and write a story, draw a picture and so on. In the evening we had lecture about using IT in english lessons.
On Thursday, we visited danish school for first time. Kate, Manu, Daniel and me, we went to Hertug Hans skole. Manu and me, we inspected classes 6.B and 7.B. They had English lessons with teacher named Helle Lind. In the afternoon, we met Jette and we were talking about our impressions. We met the cooking class too, we made agreement, what we will cook next week. And than Jette surprised us…J she gave us a quiz about Haderslev and we had to try to find the answers to tasks. In the end of this tiring adventure we gave a meed - tea and genuine danish cake. Yumm.
On Friday, we had lessons within module 3 „Citizenship and globalisation“. We were talking about nationality, citizenship, current problems in the world and so on…In the evening we went to the fancy dress party, but in the end we finished the evening all together (except Tim) with glasses of wine at our place.
On Saturday, Kate and Daniel cooked delicious dinner for us. It was salmon with spinach and rice and vegetebles. We were watching movie Knight’s tale. On Sunday we cleaned our flat…
see you in a week…
Monday, 4 February 2008
Our first days in Haderslev
The arrival
The beginning wasn´t easy...At first leave-taking and tears...but we had to go. Haderslev waited for us...Me, Kate and Iva left Praque at 3p.m (30th January). It was really long journey, it took about 15 hours. It was hard, particularly with very heavy luggage. The first surprise came...our buddy Thora thought we arrive at 6.30 p.m. but we came at 6.30 a.m...ough. but in the end everything was alright.