SPROGSKOLEN

Last week on Thursday we went to sprogskolen for a screening. Now we're registrated for attending Danish lessons on Mondays and Wednesdays.

ART

After a lunch break in the school kantine we had our first art class. We made a portrait from a fellow student. I made a drawing from Lien. After that we had to do the same thing without watching the model.

Then we made a collage on one of the portraits with pieces of pictures from a magazine. This class was very relaxing and we could express ourselves with our own creativity.

Results:

(left: normal portrait, right: portrait without watching your sheet...)

The next day we had our second art class. We made a portrait from the same student by colouring a large photo with symbolic colors.

(left: portrait under construction,
right: finished portrait - every colours symbolizes a characteristic from the model)

group results:

MUSIC

On Friday we had another music class with another teacher. We did some ritmic excercises together in a circle, we gave a short presentation about ourselves and our music history.

After a break we listened to a song by Robbie Williams; Feel (from Escapology, 2001) We analysed the formal structure of the song in intro, verses, choruses, bridge and outro.

At the end we sang some songs together round the piano.

FINALLY MOVING! 

After that last class we moved to our new house in Christen Kolds Vej. We were so happy! Now we have our own room with our own bathroom, closets, coutch, internet, ... I love it!

We share a kitchen and living room. We even have our own washing room with a tumble dryer! Christen Kolds Vej is situated in a very peacfull neighborhood.

When we go to school it's a 10 minutes bike ride down hill, but when we go back home, it can take 30 minutes! It's very hard to ride the route back, but it's a good workout!

We don't want to get fat from al the greasy meals and parties so before every meal we do 40 sit-ups!

GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP

This week we have 'global citizenship'. On monday we've seen a documentary about the  troubles in Bahrain; 'Shouting in the dark'. 

Take youre time and watch this video. It's breath-catching...

This video was very shocking and has shown us how important human rights can be / are. Human rights are important to protect the people from it's government. The government should be OF the people, FOR  the people and BY the people. (Lincoln)

That's what they're fighting for in Bahrain. It has nothing to do about what a king wants, ... It's all about freedom.

We have to show the kids respect because they're humans and they have to feel that humans have rights!

On Tuesday we gave a presentation in group. We had to show the other students how we take care of the human rights in Belgium. We presented the Belgian situation by a website; WIX.com.

We had some problems with saving and publishing our website, so we can't publish any link.

Today we gave a presentation on 'how we can teach citizenship and human rights'. This is our presentation: http://goanimate.com/videos/0wtPeBJUfhaM/1.

After the presentations we had a group discussion about 'the best education system in the world'. Personally, this was the most interesting activity we've done here in the university college. Everybody got the chance to share his opinion with the group concerning a good  general education system.

These are the different group opinions: 

In the second part of 'global citizenship', we had to make groups and watch videos on ted.com. By watching several videos (they're about different opinions concerning a good education system) on that website and discussing it in our group, we have to find and agree on the best educational system.

This is a link to the video I watched this afternoon:

http://www.ted.com/talks/colin_powell_kids_need_structure.html

Colin Powell (former Secretary of State in the U.S. (+ he has a lovely voice!)) likes to bring structure in his interaction with pupils. F.e. When a pupil has a question, he/she has to get in front of the class and stand straight with the same position like a real soldier. (without hanging shoulders or pants, …) It may sound very weird, but the pupils like it. Colin Powell integrates his experiences from his time in the army in his teaching style. Children have to learn how they can obey instructions and know the consequences of not obeying instructions, it gives them structure. Providing structure leads to be respected. In the second half of the video Colin talks more about affairs concerning a good supported start for children as a requirement for good school results but not for a good and well-doing life in America.

SEE YA!!!