My friend Frann from the MA TESOL program at PSU moved to Mexico last summer to teach English. She is an amazing woman who was fun to work with while we attended classes. When she left she gave me a food processor to make baby food with. She also offered me a sewing machine. I took it.
Later
I found myself with a sewing machine, a new baby, and dreams of sitting on my sisters couch while Elias played with his younger cousins and I sipped tea, chatted and rested with my sister.... the dreams had not originally included a sewing machine, not my sister home schooling her children. My dreams evolved.... to teaching home ec for my sister's kids in their homeschool program. I wanted to spend time with them, but not interrupt their home school schedule, and the sewing machine provided a way to make that happen.
We meet each Thursday morning for an hour or two. We had "threading the sewing machine" class, "pinning" class, "sewing lines class", etc... slowly building up to our final project.
I have learned a lot about step-by step teaching, and working with younger children. I will always look back at this as a special time with my nephews and niece.
*disclaimer* I am not even good at sewing, but I do know how to thread a machine and do some basics, which is good enough for one semester of elementary classes. Next up... cooking. I think I am ready and qualified because I have an apron....Everyone that will have to eat the food we cook next year in home ec will probably appreciate it if I read a few books before I embark on this next subject.
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haha...WHAT?! you're already going to move on to cooking?! but you're not finished with sewing! heidi, you HAVE to teach them how to make bikinis!!!!!!!!! it is a home ec must!!! i mean, seriously, heidi, Christmas will be here sooner than you realize. haha.... :D
love you!
::hugs::
Awesome!!!!
With cooking class you can teach fractions, mass vs. volume (like weight 8 oz of water to see if fluid oz are the same as 8oz on the scale), science, bake bread and talk about yeast as a microorganism...or you can just teach cooking like how to use a knife safely...I need to do that with Vivian. Sorry too many ideas. Can you guess what we talk about when we cook?
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