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| Bitter defeat (*twice*)While I was playing a rematch game with an 8th grader, a swarm of 20 kids crowded around us halfway...
Me: "You guys are a bunch of dorks, watching us play chess."
Kid #1: "Yeah, but you guys are playing it."
Me: "Yeah, at least we're playing it. But you guys are WATCHING us play. It as bad as those losers that watch people golf."
Yeah...I was getting bitter by then. =P
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Bye George
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| What's an edge?For the past two weeks, we've been working on 3D shapes, learning the different properties, learning how to find volume, the surface area and learning vocabulary. Just yesterday, they learned about the cylinder by making one from a cutout. After making their shapes, they were asked several questions and were allowed to work in a group.
Student 1: How many edges are there?
Me: *shrugs* I don't know. Don't ask me.
Student 1: None?
Me: Talked to the other people at your table.
Crazy Student: 2.
Me: What makes you say that. Explain to "Student 1" where are your edges.
Crazy Student: See [and he sits the cylinder up]. This pencil, this is you in the middle. See this stapler, this is me. When I knock you over, you fall of the edge.
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I guess everybody has their moments.
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| Things I've learned...The things I've learned from taking these guys on a trip to CUMC & Cloisters last Friday....
(FYI, I'm not in this pic!)
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Kids can be easily impressed but not by the things you expect. With
all kinds of things in a lab, million dollar equipment, viruses, lab
rats and et cetra, the one thing that impressed them the most was the
dark room and the revolving doorway (the second thing was the cold room
and the view from the 13th floor).
- Bringing them to a quiet
museum and expecting them to follow suit just doesn't work. The only
way for them to be quiet is to bring them to some place where the noise
from elsewhere is louder than them.
- People have to speak to
them in a better attitude and manner. Granted they are not angels and
may not be listening all the time, but they can still be reasoned with
(to some degree). Simply telling them not to do certain things (like
no flash photography) doesn't work. They must understand why by
explaining to them (i.e. how sunlight makes the books and magazines at
the window fade).
- They actually can follow instructions if you nag enough and back off when you need to.
- It is exhausting to not lose any (or even all) 12 kids on the subway.
- I forgot how much they could eat. =(
- Saying "please," a smile and a sense of humor helps alot.
- Its okay to let them make decisions, but you can not let them take over totally (or at least think they are in control).
- They can be (somewhat) responsible.
- Their musical taste are picky and rigidly narrow.
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Must remember to stock up on candy and soda when they do and join them
on a sugar rush. There is no other way to watch them without being
hyper as well.
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I'm still recovering....but at least the trip convinced one girl to become a biologist. Yeah!
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| Where's Marky?
"Is that a picture of all your students? Where are you?"
My own brother couldn't identify me from the pic.
(This was the actual size picture that he saw).
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