Grade 6 class. Subject is: How tall are you? Co teacher devises a worksheet where the kids fill their height, foot size, how big is your hand, bicep, waist, circumference of head, length of leg etc etc. Gives them some tape measure and lets them have at it. She joins in, measuring the girls. At one point she yells to me 'help me' and wants me to measure the inner length of one of the boys legs. no no no, I will not do that. What is wrong with you!!? Why would you even ask me that?
Quote from: welcomebackkotter on July 10, 2017, 02:14:32 pmGrade 6 class. Subject is: How tall are you? Co teacher devises a worksheet where the kids fill their height, foot size, how big is your hand, bicep, waist, circumference of head, length of leg etc etc. Gives them some tape measure and lets them have at it. She joins in, measuring the girls. At one point she yells to me 'help me' and wants me to measure the inner length of one of the boys legs. no no no, I will not do that. What is wrong with you!!? Why would you even ask me that? What did you do in the end?I don't see the worksheet as being too bad though, might steal the idea. Without helping obvs!
Quote from: welcomebackkotter on July 10, 2017, 02:14:32 pmGrade 6 class. Subject is: How tall are you? Co teacher devises a worksheet where the kids fill their height, foot size, how big is your hand, bicep, waist, circumference of head, length of leg etc etc. Gives them some tape measure and lets them have at it. She joins in, measuring the girls. At one point she yells to me 'help me' and wants me to measure the inner length of one of the boys legs. no no no, I will not do that. What is wrong with you!!? Why would you even ask me that? I definitely don't think it's a good idea for the student's to measure waists, as you will end up with a couple of people with larger numbers than most!! That would be pretty humiliating. It also seems more like a maths lesson than English.
Quote from: kimchiyum on July 10, 2017, 08:19:48 pmQuote from: welcomebackkotter on July 10, 2017, 02:14:32 pmGrade 6 class. Subject is: How tall are you? Co teacher devises a worksheet where the kids fill their height, foot size, how big is your hand, bicep, waist, circumference of head, length of leg etc etc. Gives them some tape measure and lets them have at it. She joins in, measuring the girls. At one point she yells to me 'help me' and wants me to measure the inner length of one of the boys legs. no no no, I will not do that. What is wrong with you!!? Why would you even ask me that? I definitely don't think it's a good idea for the student's to measure waists, as you will end up with a couple of people with larger numbers than most!! That would be pretty humiliating. It also seems more like a maths lesson than English.I did a similar thing last year, though I stuck to height, hair length and hand size. My CT insisted on removing the height measuring as many of the students felt too self conscious about reporting their height... 5th grade children are made to feel self conscious about their height... Speaks volumes about the society they live in.
Quote from: Aristocrat on July 10, 2017, 09:46:40 pmI did a similar thing last year, though I stuck to height, hair length and hand size. My CT insisted on removing the height measuring as many of the students felt too self conscious about reporting their height... 5th grade children are made to feel self conscious about their height... Speaks volumes about the society they live in.Anyway, to illustrate my point, the students insisted on measuring my height, then proceeded to clap and congratulate me in a bit of an awkward display. My CT seemed to be feeling a bit upstaged and decided to add a new challenge "How long can you split?". My CT does Yoga and in a rather undignified spectacle, goes into a rather shaky splits with her panties and love handles popping out for all to see.That sounds so awkward.I had a CT who refused to take off her 5 inch platform slippers to measure her height against the students whom she was clearly shorter than. She looked at me with pleading eyes to not make her do it, so I said okay, I'll do it alone.She was fine with them calling her fat and ugly, but when it comes to height it was a big problem. I thought this was something only guys obsessed over here so I really didn't get it. Everyone could see that some 6th graders were really tall, and that she wore platforms to school every day, but she really thought she needed to keep them on to play the game
I did a similar thing last year, though I stuck to height, hair length and hand size. My CT insisted on removing the height measuring as many of the students felt too self conscious about reporting their height... 5th grade children are made to feel self conscious about their height... Speaks volumes about the society they live in.Anyway, to illustrate my point, the students insisted on measuring my height, then proceeded to clap and congratulate me in a bit of an awkward display. My CT seemed to be feeling a bit upstaged and decided to add a new challenge "How long can you split?". My CT does Yoga and in a rather undignified spectacle, goes into a rather shaky splits with her panties and love handles popping out for all to see.
That sounds so awkward.I had a CT who refused to take off her 5 inch platform slippers to measure her height against the students whom she was clearly shorter than. She looked at me with pleading eyes to not make her do it, so I said okay, I'll do it alone.She was fine with them calling her fat and ugly, but when it comes to height it was a big problem. I thought this was something only guys obsessed over here so I really didn't get it. Everyone could see that some 6th graders were really tall, and that she wore platforms to school every day, but she really thought she needed to keep them on to play the game
My weekend was completely uneventful, and for the first time in my life I'm having complete writer's block on making camp materials. This has never happened to me before, and it's frustrating.
I hate you Hangul Word Processor. Why would you split a word down the middle at the end of a line?Nobody writes like this!!Why?!? I'd be hard pressed to find another text input field with the same flaw. Hell, this frickin minimal Quick Reply field on this half-ass coded website does it properly. Why can't you!?!??!
Quote from: Lurch on July 11, 2017, 01:29:19 pmI hate you Hangul Word Processor. Why would you split a word down the middle at the end of a line?Nobody writes like this!!Why?!? I'd be hard pressed to find another text input field with the same flaw. Hell, this frickin minimal Quick Reply field on this half-ass coded website does it properly. Why can't you!?!??!My students do this and itsso annoying .
We've been doing Jeonse in our current place for 3 years now (contract ending next March) and heard today that the Landlady who bought it 1 year ago wants to sell up.We moved in paying 240 million. The Landlady after we were there for 2 years sold it on and we stayed on as tenants to the new Landlady but our Jeonse increased to 290 million. Now, she wants to sell it for 330 million. Absolutely maddening prices!Totally gutted that we didn't buy the place rather than taking out Jeonse as 240 million seems like a steal now. Would have made almost 100 million profit.