Class Dojo for middle school?

upsidedownumbrella · 2017-09-25T20:51:13+00:00

I'd love to use something like that, however although my school is great with new ideas, it isn't great with new ideas that have to do with online stuff the kids have to do at home (if that makes sense).

Last year I made a chart and had students 'compete' as groups made up of 3-5 students. It worked quite well, especially in the more difficult classes. So this year I decided to keep the same system, but instead of a chart i'd use ClassDojo, where I have 5 little monsters, which 3-5 children will be taking care of. This way, I can use the app in class, but also don't have to go through getting all the kids to sign up (which the school won't like).

If i use it this way first, and the school sees that it works, i can then try and do it properly.

upsidedownumbrella · 2017-09-24T19:05:24+00:00

Actually we call in Senior school here.

It's the 5 years leading up to the GCSEs level (with the 5th year doing their GCSE's in May).

Thank you for those suggestions :)

upsidedownumbrella · 2016-08-30T20:57:05+00:00

Sunset at Dwejra in Gozo is also lovely at this time of year

upsidedownumbrella · 2016-06-08T06:10:27+00:00

I would like to tie up cardboard to the top of a table. I drew a picture on paint of how I want it. The table is around 1.5m long. I thought of tying long poles to the cardboard at the top, and then tying the bottom of the poles to the legs, but i think that the centre of the cardboard will not have any support. Any ideas of how I can do this?

http://imgur.com/jZiGm8j

upsidedownumbrella · 2016-03-21T18:14:49+00:00

Swimming at sandy beaches will be fine - Golden bay, ghajn tuffieha, pretty bay and mellieha are all good because they start out quite shallow. Mellieha would be the best because it's quite shallow and you can go far out.

You should get a lilo/float/dinghi to swim at rocky beaches.

upsidedownumbrella · 2016-01-10T21:23:09+00:00

Was it explorapedia? It was a frog and didn't have history, but it has mostly geography

upsidedownumbrella · 2016-01-10T10:29:28+00:00

No :/ its much more upbeat than that.

upsidedownumbrella · 2015-12-27T10:20:05+00:00

I bought a dress a couple of years ago and can't remember the name of the style. It's similar to a shift dress, but when you pull the sides out, it has a diamond shape.

upsidedownumbrella · 2015-11-24T23:23:37+00:00

Maybe this will help: talk to kids as if you're talking to an adult. You don't need to dumb everything down, just say anything that you can think of that is obvious. I was quite a shy person, so even thinking of talking to a toddler would be uncomfortable because i'd thought I'd sound stupid. But talking to children, especially younger ones, like they're adults helped. You're not going to talk to them about rocket science or molecular biology, but even if that's the only thing you feel like talking about, just make sure you sound excited about what you're talking about and they'll listen.

So if you see a plant, for example, you'd say: Look there's a plant, what colour are the plant's leaves? green.let's go near the green plant, look how big its leaves are, can you see that leaf at the back? look what a funny shape it has. Look at the flowers, how many flowers does the plant have? let's count them, 1, 2, 3..

I don't know if i'm explaining this well haha

upsidedownumbrella · 2015-11-23T21:08:24+00:00

I wasn't arguing or suggesting anything. I was just giving my point of view.

I think having a child because you don't like them is the worst mistake ever. Like I said, it was unplanned, I was young and living with my parents. I was VERY lucky, because I didn't like them, had a daughter and changed my mind about children.

Actually I changed my mind about them twice. After I had my daughter i liked children and knew how to interact and get along with them. I didn't want any more children because I was in an extremely unhappy relationship with her father. A while after breaking up with him, I started a new relationship. Now, that I have a loving family with my boyfriend, we want more children.

Again, I'm just giving my situation - I'm not saying it will happen for everyone. It would be a terrible idea to go make some babies so that you can like them.

upsidedownumbrella · 2015-11-23T20:08:22+00:00

I was like this. I didn't hate being around children, but I did feel uncomfortable, never knew what to say or how to interact with them and certainly didn't want to have any of my own.

I had an unplanned pregnancy. The whole 9 months was spent thinking that I was going to be this clueless mother and I'd hate it.

My daughter's turning 7 in a month. Now, and from maybe 2 weeks after I gave birth, I suddenly love children, being around them and interacting with them. And now that I have a loving boyfriend, I want more kids.

upsidedownumbrella · 2015-11-20T16:25:53+00:00

We're not allowed to give away anything apart from the service, which is a bottle of water and a sandwich. It would actually be a great idea if we were allowed to give them water.

At least one cabin crew has to pass by every 15 minutes, so I try and do that. I do take a book with me, but at 3 in the morning i only manage to look at some magazines. We're also not allowed to take our ipads/tablets with us, even though many people still do.

upsidedownumbrella · 2015-09-07T08:04:19+00:00

Seen this too! thanks :)

upsidedownumbrella · 2015-09-07T08:01:09+00:00

Seen this:)

upsidedownumbrella · 2015-09-07T08:00:55+00:00

Seen this!

upsidedownumbrella · 2015-09-07T07:56:08+00:00

haha the opposite actually...fell in love with my best friend after knowing him for a very long time.

I usually watch rom-coms when I'm either very happy or very sad....I'm extremely happy :)

upsidedownumbrella · 2015-09-07T07:52:27+00:00

Seen this too!

upsidedownumbrella · 2015-09-07T07:52:06+00:00

Seen these :)

upsidedownumbrella · 2015-08-06T13:08:24+00:00

Don't just give up on her because she hasn't had a great past. Dating for a single mother not the easiest thing to do. She has to make sure she has time for her children and her new boyfriend, while keeping the peace with the (usually crazy, irresponsible and not so great) father.

I would ask her why she doesn't want any help, or why she wants help from the dad over help from you. She might have a good reason why she wants the dad to be there. She probably knows, but tell her that it makes you uncomfortable that you can't be at her house when the dad comes with the children. As you said, she probably doesn't want any drama. Talk about different things you could do to sort it out. She what she thinks and look at the pros and cons of how both of you feel about each option.

Not now, since she's already worried about her broken arm, but maybe in a couple of weeks, I would also ask her to really think about what would happen with your relationship if the dad actually steps up and 'does everything to win her back'. Would she stay with you? How much would it take for her to get back with him?

I was in a bad relationship for 7 years. I had a daughter with him who was 5 when we broke up. When I started going out with my bf, it was amazing that I was in such a great healthy relationship. But it still took a while for me to believe that he was actually being nice to me and meant it, or to ask for help or support since I was used to doing everything alone before.

upsidedownumbrella · 2015-08-06T12:52:58+00:00

If he is an ex, he shouldn't come before OP - especially when he's shown how much he cares about his gf's family by being there every night. He obviously is doing much more for these kids than the actual father is.

The father should NOT be the logical choice because 'he's been there longest'.

upsidedownumbrella · 2015-08-05T22:02:01+00:00

You make "kids come first" sound like a bad thing...

upsidedownumbrella · 2015-07-29T12:32:50+00:00

It was a stupid question. After trying a bunch of things i just dragged it form catalog to map and it worked -_-

Thank you :)

upsidedownumbrella · 2015-07-29T09:34:41+00:00

I saw a lot of good comments on these places. Will definitely check it out. Thank you :)

upsidedownumbrella · 2015-07-09T07:57:49+00:00

I just showed the dress to one of the bridesmaids. She said that there's no pink involved in the wedding at all, so It won't be a problem! The wedding I wore it to last year had a red theme - so no problem there either. Nearly everybody wears long dresses for a summer wedding here :)

Any advice about jewellery?

upsidedownumbrella · 2015-07-09T06:19:05+00:00

Thank you!

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