SO. I am currently in my home town doing Professional Experience (PE) at a Primary (Elementary) School... and I'm kinda loving it more than a prospective High School teacher should, LOL. The kids are so cute and full of learning and "OMFG WOW"ness XDDDDD

As part of our assessment we have to write about our experiences and write reflectively, so I'm going to tell you about two things that happened today that probably don't interest anyone but me and my assessors when I get all my thoughts down :D

1. In maths today we were talking about fractions and where they fit on a number line between 0 and 1. They were great with 1/2, 1/4 and 3/4, but had a bit of trouble figuring out where 1/3 would be exactly in relation to the previous fractions. So we had a bit of a "think, pair, share" where they turned to their neighbour and thought about how they could figure it out. Here's what one pair said:

Boy 1: What about if we just put it half-way between 1/4 and 1/2? [a pretty reasonable guess, I thought]
Boy 2: Nah, because then that would be 3/8ths.

O___________________________________o DUDE. HOLY FUCK. LOL. That was my reaction to this. HAHA. There is NO WAY that kid should have known that. I just thought it was AWESOME that a kid could just be so casual about knowing something like that, LOL.

2. Miss Smith (not her real name, LOL) was reading a book aloud to the class (they're doing this for most of term, I think and then watching the film), and I, as usual was scribbling in my book while listening (a habit I picked up from lectures I think, LOL). A while later she came to talk to Kristen (the other Student Teacher) and I and she noticed my scribbling (it was of Draco's posture. Yes. I know. You're all so surprised. STFU. LOL) and showed it to the rest of the class 0.o

"Would you like Miss F to take you for an art lesson?"
"YES!!!!!!!!"

Here's me, TOTALLY embarrassed because, omfg, it's in PEN and scribbly and horrible and LAME and his head's on wrong and WTF WHY ARE YOU SHOWING THIS TO PEOPLE?! XDDDDDD And then Kristen saw that I was all, "NUUUUU WHUT ARE YOU DOING?!" and was like, "SHE HAS OTHER STUFF".

TRAITOR.

So I go and get my book and show the stuff that I do like (luckily I only had one naughty picture to skim over >.> LOL. Remind me not to draw FIVE slash while at school XDDDD), and I had basically the ENTIRE CLASS crowding around me going,

Me: This is Ron and Hemione
Them: FROM HARRY POTTER?!
Me: Yeah!
Them: OMG I LOVE HARRY POTTER!!
Me: And this is Katara and Aang from Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Them: OMG I LOVE AVATAR!!!
Them: MY BROTHER LOVES AVATAR!!
Them: AVATAR IS AWESOME!!
Me: And Helga and Arnold from Hey Arnold!.
Them: I USED TO WATCH THAT SHOW.

And then a little later Miss Smith saw my portrait of Tom that I'm working on, and her jaw dropped and she grabbed my book and showed it to the class, and they all went,

Students: WOW!!!!!!!
Boy: Who's that?
Miss Smith: Her boyfriend.
Kristen & I: HAHAHAHAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAAA.

I LOLED. HAHA. Anyway. I was amused.

So I'm thinking maybe I should teach 5/6 just to boost my ego, LOL XDDDDDD But it's great, because now they're coming up and talking to me and showing me their art and looking at me like I'm all powerful or something, ahahaha :D

So yes. I had to write those down so I don't forget :D

Night all! I have to take Maths in the morning!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE MATHS FTMFW :D The class has to say, "Fractions are our friends" :D I always want to say "Fractions are our friend in the fridge" because Miss Smith is from New Zealand and that makes it funny XD

ALSO. SUPERLATIVES. HOMG. I SHALL NEED A PROPER UPDATE TO CONTAIN MYSELF. BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH HOMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG. I'll update tomorrow :D *HUGS*

Peace,
Rotae