In this week, I and two of my colleagues decided to tell some the little learners some thing about the farms. The two colleagues that took part with me during this assignment was Mr. Ahmed and Mr. Abdirazak, we decided that learners should take the lesson first in the class as a theory, I started first by telling the learners this article from farms, here is my article:

Farms

“The roots of farming began in the areas of present day Turkey and the Middle East about 10,000 years ago. Most of the early civilizations began along major river systems. A farm is an area of land, including various structures, devoted primarily to the practice of producing and managing food (produce, grains, or livestock), fibers and, increasingly, fuel. It is the basic production facility in food production”.
After giving the learner that concise idea of farms I showed them some pictures of local and foreign farms.

Mr. Ahmed was next and here is his saying in written:

Farmers
“Farmer is a person who operates a farm grows; s/he cultivates by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques. Although the farmers are unsophisticated people, but they play a very important role in the society because we know that most of thing that we eat is from farms”.

Mr. Abdirazak was the last and here is what he said:

Suitable Land of Farms
Farms are area of land, including various structures, devoted primarily to the practice of producing and managing food (produce, grains, or livestock), fibers and, increasingly, fuel. It is the basic production facility in food production. An area of land devoted to the storage of a commodity or the emplacement of a group of devices.

At the end of the period I asked the learner to know more about the farms in home. Consequently, in the next day the learner came with different ideas and examples.

Hamda is one of the students with thoughts of that period. She told me that she asked her father more about farms and she said my father told me this:

“We as our family as a big farm that was used to belong to your passed grandfather, he bought that farm in 1975, he started the to work in his own farm with the help of your grandmother because at that time they didn’t have nobody to help them so they started in a small piece from the farm and started in wheat. So they farm and farm till me and your uncles and aunts born and grew up. Know dear Hamda farms is what the community based on because without farms there will be a food problem.”

Another learner called Abirahman told me that he his family was in his father farm in last weekend, and also he told me that he has a good idea from the farms. Here is his saying: “We have a big farm in the east of Hargeisa, it is big, and I and my family go there in every weekend’s holiday, in the farm us we get fun because in the farm we eat fresh fruits like lemons, mangoes, and other healthy fruits. Also in the farm we learn more and more about the plants and other living things. I like to go to our farm with my family.”

Finally, this lesson was useful to the learners because they got a good idea from the farms and its benefits. They also learned that the more they ask weather asking family of teachers that they will know more.

Introduction
Show children class of water than ask them what the concept and the answer they have about water and what we use it.

Objective

• By end of the lesson children will learn
• For what we use water
• From where we get water
• Important of water
• How we should water

I chose this lesson when I realize that child should know the important of water of water for live thing and how school I we share it .

Implementation and result

After I explain the lesson for the class and give them more information about water and from where we get water and also for what we use water, and the different between the sea water and the other water.

Than I divided the class in to two group than I asked them question every one in each group started to give me different answers basic in what they understand from the lesson also they to other classes advices that will be useful.

Integrating the lesson with I C T

Children are expected to use I c t to develop skills across the areas of learning for example talking ward process or to develop language and communication and vocabulary and writing and also build the imagination of child , I used to show the class the ENO lesson which give idea about how to share the water and to care for it.

Here are some of children’s feed back

-water is magnificent thing
-we love water and admire our lakes and rivers
-sea water is not clean it is very salty

“My mother told me that three quarter of our weight is water even in our brain. My name is Anwaar and I am 4 years old”.

“Water is very useful thing because without water human being animals and plants can’t grow well. My name is Abdi Alqani”.

Water help us in washing our hand our bodies without water we can not clean our cloths.

Water most be taken care for.

We can save our water for future generation in many ways without reducing our comfort of life.

“Enjoy water but do not waste it” My name is Abdi Al Baasid

In the end of the lesson I reward a certificate for those how clean their hand every they use water cause we use water to clean our hand.

On the 29 October 2008 the presidential palace (UNDP) compound in Hargeisa. The Ethiopian Embassy were bombed.

The president of Somaliland to day participated in a morning ceremony held in Hargeisa. The president sends his condolences and sympathies to the families of those innocent people killed and affected by these heinous attacks. The president condemned those nonsense bombings and stated that every thing will be done to fight against the terrorists and who who were responsible for the attacks.

I (Emma) and the rest of the group in Stockholm College feel deep sympathy with the children Huda and Hana Dahir with mother, rest of family and friends. We will do our best to support and feel with you. We also feel sympathy with all victims.

We are very happy and grateful for our cooperation in teacher training. I want to say extra much thank you to teachers, parents and children. Your examples show collaborative and creative examples in learning.

I am very proud over all those examples that we can show from our cooperation, local and global! Thank you so much.

/Emma, Xarbi and Kalle

Hi teachers, parents, children, teenagers and the world!

Today we can proudly present a movie clip about our teacher training cooperation!

Happy regards from Emma, Xarbi and Kalle in Stockholm!

Teacher Training Somaliland team Kalle, Emma and Xarbi are looking forward to continue our teacher training courses with you! We will soon start the third unit and continue the development of our collaborative learning.

Our examples show what learning can bring in local and global cooperation.

We wish teachers, children, parents and friends all the best and look forward to continue our cooperation.

Dhamaan maamulka iyo shaqaalaha Al-Baraka schools iyo Stockholm College waxay tacsi u dirayaan eheladii iyo qaraabadii uu ka geeriyooday marxuum Cabdirixmaan Adan oo ahaa waalid ardayad ka mid ah ardada grade 5 ee dugsiga Al-Baraka.

Waxaan illaahay uga baryeynaa in janadiisaa fardowsa ka waraabiyo, samir iyo imaana ka siiyo intii uu ka tagay.

Amiin

I believe that in this course I get a lot of knowledge and information not only me but also my school and students

So in this paper I will explain to u how I get benefit from it

Personal:
Helped me by improving my level and imaging to do my job very well. Aid me to find the ways that I reach my lesson to them

Social:
This course help me to improve my relation between me and their parents and my student so now I know them very well from their story and pictures

Also the parents now play important role in the school coz they call me to know the level of their student or to disuse me in their lesson

School:
From this course I learn how to play role to develop the level of my schools, so now I feel proud when my head teacher or teachers told me that my students could answer any questions without any fear or do their job very well

Also when any parent said to me thanks to yours school for what you do to improve them

Material
Aid me to discover their character and thought should help me to use my imaginations and my thought to reach information to them.
Develop my level to research any ways that help me to do my lesson well

Tutor:
She helps me and be patient to produce teachers like us to aid our selves and our country.

Urge me to discover many ways that help me to reach my thought, so it was a challenge to my self and now I can do that without any fear.

Also she help me to exchange in formations between us which urge us to work like team, so thank u for your help and support EMMA.

Professional:
Beside my experiences I have certificate that help me in my job. In future I like to train other teachers to feel that I can act what I learn.

Also now I can give other teachers advises and help without any stress coz I have good back ground that will help me in future by this wonderful course that I hope every one can use it very well

And finally I want to tell u that it is a appreciate chance for us and our country to be developed, so thanks for every things that give us to help to improve our levels and we must use this chance very well

In fact I face some problem in unit 1, coz it was new course and I did not know how I do my homework or solve the assignments

Now in unit 2 I understand it very well and in future. I like to improve my level in unit 3 if Allah said

Thank u again and I hope that my work in last unit was good!

Primary school teacher:
Muna Dahir Omer, Al Baraka Schools, Hargeisa, Somaliland

What I learned from unit one and two was very interesting and they are the following courses.

Professional

• Teacher skills ,pedagogy and reflection on the teacher profession
• Planning activity and evaluation of international extended environment lessons
• Method and teacher work in authentic on line environments
• Presentation techniques
• Children’s right
• Understanding the aims ,context ,teaching strategies and intend out comes for the lessons in which students involved and understand the place of these in the related teaching programme

Personal

• Working collaboratively with colleagues and carry out my roles effectively knowing when to seek help and advice.
• To know how to use information and communication technology ICT to advance pupil’s learning and using common ICT tools for my own and pupil’s benefit .
• to demonstrate and promote the positive values , attitudes and behavior I expect from the pupils with whom I work .

Social

• To liaise sensitively and effectively with parents and carers ,recognizing their roles in pupil’s learning .
• To build and maintain successful relationships with pupils ,treat them consistently with respect and considerations and are concerned for their development.
• To have high expectations of all pupils ,respect their social ,cultural ,linguistic ,religious and ethnic backgrounds and committed to raising their educational achievement.

School and material

To be familiar with the school curriculum and material ,the age related expectations of pupils ,the main teaching methods and testing\ examination from works in the subjects and age ranges in which I am involved.

Tutor
My Tutor of these two units was Emma Hedland who tried her best to complete these two units for us .I appreciate you Emma how you always encourage us to complete this programme successfully and fruitfully .I hope you will see fruits of work you have done some day in the near future.

Problems
There were some problems during the course such as lack of internet connections we encounter sometimes and inadequate computers.

This is my picture

From teacher; Ahmed Abdilahi Essa

I and my class invited other classes , teachers , some parents, head of primary department and principal of Al-BARAKA SCHOOLS.
Our theme of this week was how primary children can be helped to develop and the importance of social participation.

First of all some of the student of my class talked about above topic .

I think helping children to develop as confident , enthusiastic and effective learners is a central purpose of primary education By Juweriya 6B

I think doing a strategy for primary schools affirms a vision for primary education that provides opportunities for all children to fulfill their potential through a commitment to high standards . By Nimco 6B

I think the schools ,children are engaged by learning that develops and excites their imagination .The learning and teaching environment in the schools must be shaped by an understanding of what children can achieve and by teaching that meets their individual needs as learners. By Samira 6B

Some random pictures from the exhibition

The principal and the head of primary Department speaking at the Exhibitions to the students during the exhibitions.

These are students of other classes who are invited the theme of exhibition.

the parents that participated the during the exhibition theme who are taking pictures of the teachers and students. On the other picture It’s teachers that we Invited to the exhibition.

these students integrating the lesson with ICT with help of ICT teacher.

Result

Learning is primarily a social activity and participation in the social life of the school is the central for learning to occur .social participation is the main activity through which learning occurs. Social activity and participation and parents interact with their children and through these interactions children acquire the behaviors that enables them to become effective members of society.

The establishment of fruitful collaborative and co-operative atmosphere is an essential part of school learning .The social collaboration can boost students achievement, provided that the kinds of interactions that are encouraged contribute.

Finally social activities are interesting in their own right and help to look student involved in their academic work. Students work harder to improve the quality of their products [ essays , projects, artwork etc] when they know that they will be shared with other students.

Assignment week 10 from Ahmed Abdilahi Essa

Objectives

• To indentify the meaning of pollution
• To describe polluting agents in air , water and soil

First of all I have chosen this lesson because it is directly connected to the Somaliland curriculum specially book science for grade 6. for example it supporting the children to describe how water ,air ,and soil pollution and human health are interdependent each other .

Implementation process and result
The children have been working in pairs. towards the middle of the lesson I drew the class together and invited each pair to pose questions arising from the work that they want answered to help them progress with the task

Then I organized the pairs into larger groups so that they can swap their questions. The children answer each other’s questions and identify those that they are unable to answer.

Then I collected the questions and planned to share the un answered questions with the class in the final plenary

Integrating the lesson with ICT

Teaching often involves modelling for example providing children with a pictorial representation to support their thinking or to generate ideas or to show them how to present work or how, for example to deconstruct text. Including children’s own working in this process provides a ready and meaningful context from which to progress and extend their learning .It allows children to learn how they can evaluate what is successful and how to improve by a mending and adapting their work with ICT, children’s work can be scanned in displayed and annotated as part of the modelling process. So ICT teacher Mohamed Eid helped me and took part with me to integrate ICT with shows and exhibitions.

Then the children write and painted the following stories about health and environment
Air is an important in our lives .It contains the oxygen which we need for respiration. However air can easily be polluted by smoke of factories and cars . The smoke contains gases like carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide which are harmful to our respiratory system. When untreated sewage containing faeces and urine are released into rivers and other water sources also can pollute the environment. So , certain human activities have drastically change the environment by improperly disposing large amounts of harmful chemicals.
By Ikram 6B

When it comes to environment and health those two are usually together . our environment affects us all ,if environment is not clean people get sick because forests are oxygen tanks .In clean forests people always breathe freely this air so clean and easy to breathe and when heart gets fresh air ,it will beat and keep us alive.
By juweriya 6B

Ref; usb memory stick\eno lessons\health and environment

Somaliland national curriculum\ science book for grade six