Month of Blog Posting

At the end of my year here, provided I fill in all the stuff properly, I’ll get a qualification in Global Volunteering and Citizenship. It’s a really good thing that Project Trust has recently introduced meaning that we won’t just go home saying “Aw, I spent a year in India, I learnt lots of useful things” we’ll be able to go home and have something to show for it!  It’s a wee booklet and we’ve had to fill in a few before we came out to India.  But we’ve also got one, called Experience of Overseas Placement as a Volunteer, to fill in in our country.  It’s has lots of things which we need to keep reminding ourselves to do in it.  And one of them is celebrating an International Day.   Now there are a long list of International Days so I’m not going to do all of them.  But some are very handy because you can basically stop doing the normal teaching and do something different.  Which the kids love!  They actually go crazy over it. 

In our wee booklet, it says that November is Month of Blog Posting.  So I thought I would get some of the kids to do a blog.  That is a lot harder than it sounds.  Especially when you remember that my two main classes are full of 7 year olds and 10 year olds who haven’t heard of blogs before.  So I just had to tell them that it’s a thing on the internet where people can put stories, information and pictures, which it basically is.  I told them that I had one and that everybody back in Scotland is reading it and now I think they think I am more popular than I am. 

I asked 3^rd Standard what they would say to people in Scotland if they could and I got some very interesting things back. 

                                             "I like Scottish people"

                                              "I like villages"

                                            "Scotland is so beautiful"

                                            "Scotland peoples are good peoples" 

I then asked them what they would tell people in Scotland about themselves.   Again, some interesting returns. 

                                             "I like places and people"

                                                 "My family is nice.  I like them"

                               "I like my mother, my father, my sister, my brother and my friends"

They were really cute about it as well and they loved the fact that people in Scotland would see them.  So make sure you show everyone!  They want to everyone in Scotland to see them. 

I also did a similar thing with my 1^st Standard class.  Which turned out to be a lot harder to organise.  Eventually I just had to write something on the board that they all agreed on and told them to fill in the blanks.  So what was on the board was “My name is                      .  I am             years old.  When I grow up I want to be                       .  You would think that that would be relatively simple.  Nope.  Not really.  I got some who had just copied exactly off the board, line and all.   But at least there wasn’t much to go wrong on these ones.  Except when I wrote the spelling of jobs on the board and two wee boys wrote them all done.  Well, they could be very ambitious.  But they’ve written it down the exact same way I wrote it on the board…

                     "My name is Kven Stanley.  I am five years old.  When I grow up I want to be military"

 "My name is ______ Y.Punith Kumar.  I am ______ years old.  When I grow up I want to be policeman, doctor, teacher, military"

 

                           "My name is Chandana.  I am 19 years old.  When I grow up I want to be a teacher"

"My name is Anniecrism.  I am 6 years old.  When I grow up I want to be doctor"

They really enjoyed doing all this even if they really didn’t understand it all.  I’ll hopefully be able to do a similar thing with some of my older classes who might be able to get what I’m talking about a bit better…