Priorities

This week I'm going to tell you about my priorities.  Each week we get some things we have to do, and this week they are two menus (one on what you like and the other on what you hate) two letters, one to our schools board of trustees saying why aren't we on holiday and the other to our school principal, on what we want our new teacher to be like.  There's a quality blog
 post, ( this is the blog post) and a blog   comment. Then we got to attend all our workshops, two Reading, two Writing and two Maths.

My first menu was on what I don't like.  It's called Charlotte's Altra Yuck and has all the things I don't like. 1: Dahl, 2: rice, 3: broccoli, 4: sunflower seeds, 5:goody goody gum drops Ice cream,
6: Coc, 7: coffee and last Kenwa salad. YUCK!!!

 After that was my yum menu.  That was called Charlotte's Altra Yum.  1:Pizza, 2:pasta, 3: Lasagna, 4: Crackers, 5: Dried Fruit, 

6: Apple Crumble, 7: L&P, and lastly Sparkling Grapefruit Juice.

They're some of my favorite foods.

This as I already mentioned, is my blog post so your looking right at that, and I haven't done my comment yet.  I also haven't done my letters ( both of them).

Bye 

Highland Dance: Lesson 2

 The beginning

 Kia ora everyone, It's great to be back. Last week's lesson was great! I´m going to tell you  about it.  Once discovery started I got myself ready,  my shoes were taken off, the music on my chromebook was ready, and my bottle was taken out of my bag.  Once every one was there we started... I was teaching them the Irish Jig. 

 Bow

First I had to teach them the bow.  We put our hands in the position they were in the week before and stepped back.  Once we stepped back we bent forward a bit and put our feet in 3rd position.  Doing all those things together we did the bow.  

Skipping

Once they learnt how to do the bow they started to learn the skipping.  That's a main part in the Jig.  It took them a while.  The first time they didn quite get it, so I had to show them.  That was fine because after they skipped the whole length of the deck. They did really well but didn't  completely do it, Iriss, a dance student lagged behind a bit the first time. She still got there, grabbed her shine card and skipped back.  Then I told my group that it doesn't matter if they get back last because sometimes it means you tried harder, and then the next time they did it.  Then I made them skip around like that in circles like in the actual dance.

Break

After the skipping is the break.  That's the easiest part of the dance. 

 You go hop-heel-hop-heel-back 2-3-4, And that's what I taught them.  They got that the first time but I gave each of them individual turns showing me.  They were quite good at that.

First step

Then we did the bow, skipping, break skipping in the opposite direction,break and then the second step.

Second step

Straight after that we did the second step.  That's when you go heel hop back 2-3-4 three times.  After that is the break, and then the same thing over again on the opposite side.

What I learnt

This week I learnt that we all have a different talent and highland dancing is mine. 

I´m not going to make people do it if they don't want to. I also learnt that I need to keep doing it to make myself better so I can teach them it.  They are also happy doing it.  Lastly I learnt how to do it better and how hard teaching them dance is.  They can get silly and not listen to me so next time I´m going to do it differently ( I don´t know how yet).

Bye!!

The First HIGHLAND DANCE Lesson

Discovery 

On Fridays in my school we do a thing called discovery.  That's when teachers put up activities on
slides and other teachers read those out loud to their class.  Children are aloud to do these things t
oo, make a slide and let teachers read them to the classes so they can go to these activities and last
week that's what I did.  I go to highland dancing lessons on Wednesdays but haven't been recently
because of the lock down.  The lessons haven't started again yet, so I'm holding them myself at schools
on friday.  I'm going to tell you about the first lesson.

Positions 

Once discovery started I got myself ready. The music came off my chromebook most of the time,
at the beginning it came out of a speaker.  When the group got there I turned on the music. 
That's when I taught them the first step. Of course I had to teach them the positions, first position was
feet out like a V. Second position was one foot out like a V but the other pointing to the side, and the
last position I taught them was third position, that's when you have big toe to big toe.  They are quite
simaler to ballet positions and there are more positions but that's all I taught them.  

The dance 

First step is the easiest step.  You hop on one foot arm in the air, with your middle finger on your thumb.
  I was pretty impressed by how well they did.   I had a few come and go throughout the lesson and the
one that stayed out of those people was the best in the group. They all did pretty well in the first step,
they did pretty well in the second step to.  The third step was a bit trickier.  It was called toe-heal,  they
all got confused when I started doing it.  Then when I explained it and they had copied me one or two
times they understood.  With the last step they got it right away, but they were really tired by then. 
By the time they managed to get we were all tired.  I said they were allowed to get a drink if they
wanted but they didn't.  They wanted to learn how to do some skipping that goes with another
highland dance called the jig. (That's what I´ĺlbe teaching them this week.)  they were really happy. 
Hopefully this week will be just as successful.

What I learnt

THis was what I wanted to write about because of what I learnt.  I learnt to teach people and how hard it
can be.  I was also learning how amazing others abilities are compared to mine. 
Lastly I learnt more of what I already know.  I just got better at highland dancing. 
That is what I found amazing about it.

THE END

Here´s a photo from at the beginning of the
lesson with my friend Cornelia dancing in the lead!!
She was a big help.