Why I should never have a microphone...

If I had remembered that I was being photoed maybe I would have

looked better when talking (is that even possible?)?!?!?!

NAWWWWWWWW!

You are right - never would I be allowed to talk/interview/debate publicly.

These pictures say it all.

At least sometimes - I can keep my mouth shut!

To All My Teacher Friends

I was looking for help about HOW TO TEACH students to write good questions.

Specifically for Cranium.

This newsletter about a BOOK in the Harvard Education Letter helped

Teaching Students to Ask Their Own Questions

One small change can yield big results

By DAN ROTHSTEIN and LUZ SANTANA

Basic skeleton/outline that could be helpful - perhaps?

The Question Formulation Technique
Dupuy, Muhammad, and many other teachers are using a step-by-step process that we and our colleagues at the Right Question Institute have developed called the Question Formulation Technique (QFT). This technique helps students learn how to produce their own questions, improve them, and strategize on how to use them 
(see sidebar “Question Formulation Technique”).

Question Formulation Technique - Produce Your Questions

Four essential rules for producing your own questions:
• Ask as many questions as you can.
• Do not stop to discuss, judge, or answer the questions.
• Write down every question exactly as it is stated.
• Change any statement into a question.

Improve Your Questions
• Categorize the questions as closed- or open-ended.
• Name the advantages and disadvantages of each type of question.
• Change questions from one type to another.

Prioritize the Questions
• Choose your three most important questions.
• Why did you choose these three as the most important?

Next Steps • How are you going to use your questions?   LINK TO ARTICLE is http://www.hepg.org/hel/article/507#home

 I am going to use it first...will let you know how it goes!

Ms.Wells

 

Are you trying to tell me something?

Somebody sent this to me the other day...

Should I be worried???

Need a Riddle?

One of my favourite riddles to date...

...and I'm really no good at these things!

However, my student just EAT THEM UP!

Do have any good riddles for me, that I can use in class? 

I would LOVE to hear'em!

Here's riddle #1

Alive without breath,

As cold as dealth,

Never thirsty, ever drinking

All in mail, never clinking

I didn't say it was hard - did I?
Do you know the answer?
HINT: It's an animal.

I really DISLIKED riddle #2

A box without hinges, key or lid.

Yet inside golden treasure is hid.

Did I mention how much I disliked this one?

Alright - back to work (writing a unit on Gender Roles in History Gr. 7)

UGH!

(smiling - really do love it)

It's just a CRAP load of work sometimes!

What's for dinner when you no FRIDGE?

Broken fridge = broken heart for Lauren Wells.

Because not only did all my HOME MADE mayo and pesto have to

be tossed but what the HECK do I eat for dinner?

This is what I came up with.

Ugh - I hate being healthy!

;-)

Would you eat this Peter?

Yeah, you're right.

Too many colours - HA!

Celebration Lunch - Part 2

Once all the adults had left the room and gone

to do the washing up and sharing of leftovers...GUESS 

WHO HAD A PARTY SANS ADULTES?!?!?!

Bahahahahahha!

(I was like  kid in a candy store instigating CRAZINESS)

First silly GROUP shots

But this got too boring for me...

 

MORE SILLY faces I say - showing them a few of my own!

Things get better - but then I give the camera away and that

is when the real party starts!

Did someone say paint? Mehndi painting?!?

Sooooooo COOOOOOOOL!

BEST PART OF MY DAY!

Can you believe they pay me to teach KIDS!?!?

Celebration Lunch Party - Part 1

This is my friend Siddik who invited me over for lunch this pas weekend.

Really? You want to invite me over for lunch?

Free food? SOLD!

(I'm a cheap date - what can I say?)

It started off with a proper meal, sitting down like normal people.

(I am constantly finding myself eating while running from class to class)

This was a lovely change from the everyday RUSH of life.

 

Then after lunch, it's customary to take photos...especially if you are a stranger and the only

white girl for a 100 mile radius.

 

Niiiiiiiiiiiiice Lauren!

Siddik's wife Shuhala was my favourite.

Well, maybe after these kiddies....little boy in the shorts was HILARIOUS!

But this young girl - I cannot pronouce let alone write her name - took my breath away!

I kept saying ohhhhhh your hair!

And I told her I wanted Mermaid hair for years....everyone laughed because

I said Bear hair instead of Mermaid hair.

It's kinda close.

And then EVERYONE wanted pictures but funny, why is no one SMILING?!?!

(except my little cutie muffin on the bottom)

 At this point I was starting to feel very famous and quite tall.

My photographer (a young boy who randomely took charge of camera)

was telling me to duck down...too BIG he kept saying!

I don't know who was more taken with who. She kept

wanting to take pictures with me and I kept thinking - REALLY!?!?!

(fingers crossed the whole time that I wouldn't blink for all of them)

Part TWO

(which is the FUN PART)

coming soon!