Krazy Kinders in Kanada

That's a pretty neat title isn't it?

I had one HECK of a week of prac! It went by SO fast and I had a blast with the kids. Lots of planning and lots of work but I made it to the weekend and have a chance to catch my breath. I'm planning ahead big time for this upcoming week. Most of the planning I do is centred around my own themed unit. We're doing a unit on Canada. So basically, during these 5 weeks, we'll be learning all about Canada and doing a ton pof activities related to that topic (as well as a Sea Creature theme ran by my supervising teachers). Last week I did the intro where I gave them airplane tickets and we boarded our plane and flew to Canada (watched a couple of videos on Canada, and discussed the whole idea of our Canadian Travels.) Then I gave them a "My Canada Scrapbook" which we will fill up throughout the unit with activities they do. So far we've listed some animals and drawn our favourite, and wrote the title "Winnie the Pooh" and drew him. THIS WEEK IS GONNA BE AWESOME!!!!!!!!
My them for this week is the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. I've planned 7 lessons that we'll do throughout the week and it's going to be SO MUCH FUN!

Lesson 1:
intro, so them the website on the interactive whiteboard (awesome technology) and then have a mock opening ceremony where they will "march" back to class, each representing a country as if they were walking into the stadium! Hahahaha, that's gonna be AWESOME!

Lesson2:
entry in scrapbook "Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics", draw rings and design their own mascot. We will have looked at the mascots in the lesson 1, which is on the same day.

Lesson 3:
hockey! All about it, at the olympics, watch a couple short videos and then they can play it on the computer, found a free online game.

Lesson 4:
Paralympics. Explore the sports of the paralympics and discuss different types of disabilities etc.
Maybe go outside and have them blindfolded and leading each other.

Lesson 5: Bobsleigh. Watch a couple vids from cool runnings (funny), discuss and then have them line up as if they were in a bobsled and show a virtual ride video I found on youtube. should be funny.

Lesson 6:
Speed skating, skiing, snowboarding.
Not completely finished yet, but they have a famous Aussie athlete who won gold in 2002 (total fluke but whatever) so I'll show that youtube video.

Lesson 7:
Discuss medals and placing and such. Crative arts activity where they design and create their own medal. gonna get some white ribbon and make a little cardboard medal that they can decorate. THEN I will have a mock podium set up and I'll have them stand on the number one spot, wear a laurel wreath and i'll take their photo. Medals will go on the "Canada wall" and photos will be developed and they can pasted them in their books on Monday. How funny will that be?!?!?!

Anyways, so that's my week of Canada stuff. On top of that I need to plan a series of lessons/activities with the letters CEO (I chose that group because "Hockey" Vancouver" "Olympics") and a group of words and such. SHOULD BE SOOOOOO MUCH FUUUUUUN!!! And maths is on Mass. I made a work sheet already for one station. They'll be estimating what's heavier by hefting. I'm using my IMC medal, canada pencil, canada patch, glue stick, calculator and stapeler. gotta do a few more of those for the week. I also got my hands on a copy of that popular Canadian book "The Hockey Sweater"... remember that one? Really old, the one about the kid who's a Canadiens fan but his jersey is all ratty so he gets a new one as a gift but it's a Leafs one... yadda yadda yadda... that should be good. haha

Week 4 we're going to the Sydney aquarium! Wednesday the 11th of November. That'll be a blast!

This weekend i did 3 hours of cycling Sat and Sun! Woo WOOOOOOO!!! The legs are WRECKED! But I feel goooooood!

All this planning is so that I'm not doing it every day after school. I want to get as much done and organized during the week so the weekdays I can get to bed early, and up early to train! This week and next are two important weeks for IM training. 6 weeks left!

Jubes is workin' her little bee-hind off of course. Napping as we speak before she goes in to work at the buffet.

Gotta go to Bunnings now to looks for some resources. :)