Even on my internship I couldn't escape the dreaded holiday flu... The story of my teaching life :-) .
So I had a few sick days this week but it was still very eventful. Tuesday was our Mad Hatter's Tea Party!! I was Alice and along with the Hatter, hosted arvo tea for 52 children (all under 7, ave age being about 4!). So most of the morning was spent setting up, streamers and balloons, as well as the usual public programs of story time and 3 pre-school groups. The tea party was crazy... Or should I say, MAD! It was great, we took the kids through the gallery's gardens to look for the white rabbit, had a best hat comp, sang songs, ate food... I was careful as I didn't want to shrink too much... And topped out all off by giving a tour of the exhibition!!! I loved it, the kids loved it, it was great fun!
After being a high school teacher for 7 years, I can safely say I have never worked as hard as I did for the 2hrs I was Alice! I have a lot of respect for primary school teachers.
The rest of the wk was a little less busy. I finished writing the Early Stage - Stage 3 trail and worksheets for the coming school groups for the current exhibition. I was bummed that I missed friday and the meeting with the artist I will be writing the ed kit for on the next ex. But I'm going to meet up with him with my supervisor in the coming weeks.
I didn't do as many hrs as I wanted to this week, but tomorrow school starts back so I have to be well and rested to face all those teenagers.
I had a great 2 weeks, I wish I could have taken time off work to do the internship in one big chunk. But this way I do get to see the development of more exhibitions. So now I'm only going to be doing saturdays until the september school hols.
Until next saturday... :-) Stay arty!
So I had a few sick days this week but it was still very eventful. Tuesday was our Mad Hatter's Tea Party!! I was Alice and along with the Hatter, hosted arvo tea for 52 children (all under 7, ave age being about 4!). So most of the morning was spent setting up, streamers and balloons, as well as the usual public programs of story time and 3 pre-school groups. The tea party was crazy... Or should I say, MAD! It was great, we took the kids through the gallery's gardens to look for the white rabbit, had a best hat comp, sang songs, ate food... I was careful as I didn't want to shrink too much... And topped out all off by giving a tour of the exhibition!!! I loved it, the kids loved it, it was great fun!
After being a high school teacher for 7 years, I can safely say I have never worked as hard as I did for the 2hrs I was Alice! I have a lot of respect for primary school teachers.
The rest of the wk was a little less busy. I finished writing the Early Stage - Stage 3 trail and worksheets for the coming school groups for the current exhibition. I was bummed that I missed friday and the meeting with the artist I will be writing the ed kit for on the next ex. But I'm going to meet up with him with my supervisor in the coming weeks.
I didn't do as many hrs as I wanted to this week, but tomorrow school starts back so I have to be well and rested to face all those teenagers.
I had a great 2 weeks, I wish I could have taken time off work to do the internship in one big chunk. But this way I do get to see the development of more exhibitions. So now I'm only going to be doing saturdays until the september school hols.
Until next saturday... :-) Stay arty!
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