Hello everyone, this is my last official post on this blog. I was thinking very hard of what should I write about. Everything came to my mind but nothing at the same time. The only things that were encouraging me to talk about were happiness, illusion, but also some of fear, a bit of sadness and why not? It was the feeling of freedom as well. If you are reading this post may be the concept of “ending” rings a bell and this specific concept was what inspired me to publish this post.
At the beginning of the year our teacher made us watch a video clip of One Republic, which is called “Love runs out”. I remember that time, our expectations about how the subject would be and that great moment in where we got astonish by listening that awesome song. That was why that song was the kind of songs that caused our hair stand one end, due to its meaningful lyric and the sense it gave to us. Raquel played that one because it talked about the feelings you have when you are much closed to reach what you want, so we could feel very much identified.
Then, Raquel has been reinforcing these feelings during the year by teaching us a huge variety of useful activities and techniques that we could apply to our future pupils or, in my case, also to my daughter. In no more than three months we have learnt some nursery rhymes; jazz chants; jolly phonics; we have created beautiful reading maps; we also have learnt how to perform stories telling; how to design our future library classroom; how to get the most of an infant movie to teach some contents; we have known several great authors, etc. We had fun, not only in class but preparing the projects and I think we also had reflected carefully on our capability of being great teachers.
Lastly, in my opinion, thanks to this type of subject, we all are now prepared to face that sweet future that is waiting for us. I don’t want to be the teacher’s pet but I will always take into account this subject as a reference in classrooms. I had the great opportunity to try the results of how everything worked at class but also at my home and the smiles they could provoke would be priceless.
Here you are a photo I took a month ago. It is my daughter enjoying one of the Michael Rosen’s stories :).
First of all Carmen I have to say, that this image is so sweet and represent in a great way a lot of things that we have being working on this year.
I agree with you a 100% (as Matthew would say) about the sad-happiness (new word for the English dictionary xd) of the situation. For me Literacy and Clil (and I am not trying to look down on the rest of the subjects) have been really important for us as a future students. It is true that we worked a lot in the one thousand (more or less) projects that we have created during this year, but on the other hand I am sure that we have enjoy a lot this last period of time, and in my case, I have learnt a lot of things, and I’m not talking about contents, i’m talking about values, and important lessons that I have interiorized and they are made that I have less fair of be in front of a class.
Finishing this classes, is like a kind of goodbye, a good bye of four years of good moments, not so good moments, lessons, classes that we enjoyed a lot, an classes that we wanted that finished, excursions, dances, performances…in summary, I’m sure that great memories.
Thank you a lot for this post, it was so touching read it!