Tutorial: Colour Printing

   Assalamualaikum and hello everybody! I hope you're all well.

   Even though I'm busy with school, I don't mean to abandon this blog. I could write a lot of random posts but that won't be fun, so I decided that I'd do a series of tutorials that might be useful to you. They're actually not really tutorials- just ideas and tips that I have learned while doing my work.

   Let's start. Ever since I entered my training institute, I've been used to having my own printer and computer or laptop. Life doesn't feel complete without them. To date, I've bought/owned (and disposed some of) 5 printers. Yeah. All were colour printers, and 4 were Canon ones. My favourite printers are definitely from the Canon series, I think they have the easiest user interface and they're also easy to handle.

   Anyway, whatever brand of printer you use doesn't matter in this tutorial. What I want to yalk about is how to make sure that what you print is the exact shade of colour that you want. Let me explain. A lot of times I find that the colour that I selected/used in whatever documents that I create using my laptop is not the same on screen and off screen. For example, magenta sometimes come out as red, dark blue comes out as a different shade than the one you see on your laptop screen and so on.

   This is what I did.

   Step 1

Select font colour

Step 2

Select 'more colours'

 Step 3

This is what will come out

Step 4

To ensure a sharper and better quality image, enlarge the pop-up screen by dragging at the corner.

 

Step 5

Click on 'Print Screen' (or it may be written as PrtSc on your keyboard).

Open Paint.

Select 'Edit' and 'Paste'.

Edit as necessary.

   But hey, you know what, I decided to make life a lot easier for you. Below is the picture of the colour diagram that I got. I printed it out (you can either print is an image or paste it into word before printing it out). I paste it on my wall and I refer to the colour that HAS BEEN PRINTED before choosing the colour to use in my laptop. This way you can determine the shade of colour that you really want and expect it to come out.

 

   I realise that my explanations are all over the place, so if you can't make out head from tail on this post, shoot me a question and I will do my level best to answer!

Dreams

   I wonder if I'll have received my wages by the time my blog gets to 50,000 views. I could do something fun like a giveaway. Woooohhh....

   Yeah. Dream on.

It's not wrong to dream, huh?

Teachers: Jack of All Trades

   Yes. That's what we are. Sometimes I wonder how I'm ever going to manage all these things that I have to do. There's so much work, aside from teaching. Teaching makes up just a tiny bit of what teachers have to deal with at school. Sometimes I wonder if the tasks teachers have to complete (apart from classroom activities) defeat the purpose of their original job. At the moment, I don't have as much to do as the seniors teachers do. They are so busy, that I wonder how they manage their own personal lives. 

   I found this somewhere on the internet, and I thought, how true! I'm not married and of course have no kids of my own, but after I started work it's like I gained a whole bunch of children to look after. 

SPP Appointment Letter

   Alhamdulillah! Yes, how could I forget? I finally got my appointment letter from SPP! The PT handed it over to me on Sunday. Some  of my friends had already received it last week, but whatever the case, I'm happy I got mine.

   Included in the packet are the following items (sorry I'm typing some items in BM- too lazy to translate):

   1. Appointment letter from SPP or in BM Surat Tawaran Pelantikan Tetap Jawatan Pegawai Perkhidmatan Pendidikan

   2. Surat Setuju Terima Tawaran Pelantikan

   3. Surat Akuan Sumpah

   4. Surat Aku-Janji

   5. Borang Pemeriksaan Perubatan untuk Pelantikan Ke Dalam Perkhidmatan Awam

   I'd like to share the contents of the letter with you, as I'm sue you'd  be interested in knowing about the amount of gaji etc., hehe, but I'm not sure if it's supposed to be confidential. Anyway, I've to complete the medical check-up and all a.s.a.p. I'll keep you updated.

   And I promise this is the last post for tonight!!!

   Take care everybody! Two days to go before the school hols... I'm already in holiday mood!!!

Tarikh Bayaran Gaji Tahun 2012

   Awat ta tetiba rajin dok pos macam2 malam ni.

   Bear with me.

   Anyway, found this somewhere on the internet... hehe.

   I did a search on the net and found a download link to the original 'surat pekeliling' (I have no idea what the hanky panky smanky term for surat pekeliling is in English), so I feel safe saying this info is valid. As soon the correct date arrives, let's all go and line up at the nearest ATM, shall we? Hehe. Hey. Yes we do teach for the sake of Allah, but gaji is still gaji right? We teachers are human beings too!

   However, our school PT said the best he can do is to process my 'gaji' for April. If that includes all the wages I'm supposed to be getting starting from the day I reported for duty, it means a 3 1/2 months worth of wages.

   *faints in shock

KSSR - Instrumen Pentaksiran Tahun 2 links

   I'd just like to share some links I found at KSSR online. Thanks so much to the people who shared these documents- Insya-Allah they'll be really helpful for PBS!

DOWNLOAD LINKS: INSTRUMEN PENTAKSIRAN TAHUN 2

Included are:

English

BM

Music

Maths 

Bahasa Cina

   Don't forget to include the wonderful people who shared these useful materials in your du'a! :D

   You can browse for more materials and news related to KSSR at www.kssronline.com.

Flowers Are Red(?)

   I love this song. It was originally by Harry Chapin (remember 'Ohhhhh the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon, little boy blue and the man on the moon...'), but there's a version sung by Zain Bikha and friends. I think it's a great song- it gives teachers a lot to think about. 


   I hope I won't be like the first teacher. Imagination killer.

   

FLOWERS ARE RED


The little boy went first day of school
He got some crayons and started to draw
He put colors all over the paper
For colors was what he saw
And the teacher said.. What you doin' young man
I'm paintin' flowers he said
She said... It's not the time for art young man
And anyway flowers are green and red
There's a time for everything young man
And a way it should be done
You've got to show concern for everyone else
For you're not the only one

And she said...
Flowers are red young man
Green leaves are green
There's no need to see flowers any other way
Than the way they always have been seen

But the little boy said...
There are so many colors in the rainbow
So many colors in the morning sun
So many colors in the flower and I see every one

Well the teacher said.. You're sassy
There's ways that things should be
And you'll paint flowers the way they are
So repeat after me.....

And she said...
Flowers are red young man
Green leaves are green
There's no need to see flowers any other way
Than the way they always have been seen

But the little boy said...
There are so many colors in the rainbow
So many colors in the morning sun
So many colors in the flower and I see every one

The teacher put him in a corner
She said.. It's for your own good..
And you won't come out 'til you get it right
And all responding like you should
Well finally he got lonely
Frightened thoughts filled his head
And he went up to the teacher
And this is what he said.. and he said

Flowers are red, green leaves are green
There's no need to see flowers any other way
Than the way they always have been seen

Time went by like it always does
And they moved to another town
And the little boy went to another school
And this is what he found
The teacher there was smilin'
She said...Painting should be fun
And there are so many colors in a flower
So let's use every one

But that little boy painted flowers
In neat rows of green and red
And when the teacher asked him why
This is what he said.. and he said

Flowers are red, green leaves are green
There's no need to see flowers any other way
Than the way they always have been seen. 


But there must still be a way to make our children say:
There are so many colors in the rainbow
So many colors in the morning sun
So many colors in the flower and I see every one

   To all teachers out there- imagination is a great gift so don't kill it!


Listen to the song below:

Cursive Writing Worksheet Generator

   I found this great worksheet generator for cursive writing exercises. You can either create a blank worksheet like this:

or ones with traceable words or sentences:

   Isn't it great? Following the introduction of KSSR, 'by the end of the 6-year primary schooling, pupils will be able to form letters and words in neat legible print including cursive writing.' However, I think cursive writing is also a required skill in KBSR since it's included in the KBSR Year 5 textbook. You can visit the worksheet generator at the link below:

LINK: CURSIVE HANDWRITING WORKSHEET GENERATOR

   I plan to use this generator to produce some worksheets for my lesson with Year 5 Z tomorrow. Some of them have rather terrible handwriting, even using normal handwriting, so I'm not quite sure how this will turn out, but you won't know until you try huh?


   I hope the week is turning out beautifully for everybody. To all teachers and future teachers, ganbatte ne! Remember, do everything for the sake of Allah and NEVER expect to get rewards or anything in return for what you're doing for your pupils now... only ask that Allah blesses you in all that you do. Otherwise, you'll end up being disappointed every single day of you life (imagine a class like the one I have to teach- 2D!) Take care!

My Famous Friend... hehe

That's her in the blue baju kurung

   My good friend Sarah was sort of mentioned in an online NST article recently. Sarah  is one of my Cohort 4 girlfriends, and we have a strange connection with each other... hehe. Anyway, her school, SK Pulai Perdana, was featured in an online NST article and they mentioned her as one of the English teachers there.

   You can read the article here:

Getting to Know You

   Tomorrow my school is having a Mini Larian which is sort of like a cross country. I'll write more about it later.