Stories of me and myself

Backdated post for Wednesday (5/4/06)

Guess what?

I spent my entire morning, afternoon, evening and night working on a lesson for my Sec 1s.
Lots of pictures and diagrams and pretty powerpoint slides.

And then, as I was transferring data between my comp, thumb drive and hard disk drive, I kinda deleted it.
But I didn't realise it till I rushed for class after my exciting Sec 2 class.
So, I didn't have my powerpoint slides.
I seem to be jinxed in this class leh.
Either my computer or anybody's laptop for that matter, doesn't work on the projector, or I have to be so dumb as to delete my beloved powerpoint slides!
Therefore I had to resort to using the whiteboard and the poor kids had to contend with my atrocious drawing! Hee.


Wonder what my kids' responses were?

I drew a volcano and they thought I was drawing a coconut/palm tree. (Know the layers of the volcano?)

They asked me why layers, so I explained that each time the lava flows out and cools, it forms a layer, and illustrated it with a piece of paper. Then the next layer and so on, each time raising the height of the paper, till it forms a huge volcano. Then when I thought they had gotten the idea, I stopped. And the smart alecks exclaimed, "Wow! Volcano so short ah!" *Diao*

I asked them what colour they thought magma was. The answer was "purple".
Reason: I was using a purple marker. *Diao again*

I asked. "Where do you think you can find the most volcanoes in the world?"
Answer: "Toa Payoh"
AIYOH!

Haha! But I did have fun lah. And they did learn something about folding and volcanoes. =)

The worse thing was, I had been so confident that I asked my ct to do an observation for me for this class today!
Haii.... that is life.
But the good thing is that he's chin chai (anything-also-can)!
And thank God that I had not left any blanks in the slides for the kids to fill in!
So yeah, I still had a rather fulfilling lesson.

Thanks to Pengy jiejie that I didn't resort to bringing my pillow to illustrate folding! She suggested using layers of paper, and that is what I did. It got the point through well and good. Hee.

And after much searching through, I finally came upon a lone copy of my supposedly dead powerpoint slides! Saved somewhere I dunno where! But I found it! And hence I shall share some of the beauty with you. Can imagine how engrossed I was in searching for these pics and creating interest in Geography that I spent so much time on it? Haii... but searching for such awesome pics is probably one of the joys of preparing for a Geog lesson! =)

Swiss Alps, Europe


Andes Mountain Range, South America, Observe the folds! Aren't they amazing?


Canadian Rockies


Sunset at Mount Fuji, Japan (Aww...)


Himalayas. The undulating landscape just mesmerizes me!


Now for the volcanoes....

Mount Bromo, Indonesia. It erupted recently.


Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa. I remember studying this in Sec School! Heh. But I didn't imagine it with a giraffe! ("I'm a Toys 'R' Us kid...")


Mount Mayon, Philippines. I studied this in Sec School too! Just to show some eruption... a cloud of ash and dust.


I love Geography! =)