Dear all,
We will be having a meeting at 3pm C27 this Friday (29th Feb) to plan for Level 1 and Level 2. Please be on time and tell me ahead of time if you cannot make it.
In case i forget, i will have to pick up the Etiara people earlier this sat at 8.15am. we will then have to leave by 8.30 to pick up the ridzwan people. we only have 1 van for 14 people so we may have to squeeze. I have asked my friends to drive 2 cars to help as well. we must really try to get there on time.
FEEDBACK FOR SESSION 2
All of you did very well considering the fact that we were taken by surprise by the additional kids (about 15 extra). I am constantly thankful to God for you all as you all are so adaptable and also dependable. KEEP IT UP!!
Some areas we need to work on are:
1. The intro session and icebreakers
I thought the song was good (NOT my singing though). The kids were really enthusiastic even the older ones. we need more of this.
2. Level 1 was good. Be prepared for more kids this weekend. Pn. Khatijah has warned us of one last batch.
3. Level 2. Need to be more systematic here and improve the grouping system and reading time. We should try to work in a storytelling slot and maybe even have a homework slot (any subject but prefereably English)
What do you think?
Please feedback in this blog.
Yong FS
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2 comments:
this is hani.
firstly, err... mr.yong, we actually thought that your singing was really good (plus the cute actions!!!). the kids reallly enjoyed it cuz you were really supporting and funny. you qualify for malaysian idol 3rd season.:D
secondly, i do agree that for level 2, we have a problem with time management. talking from my group's experience, we spent most of the time with the kids reading their own books. we thought that it would not be appropiate if they did not finish the book. they, themselves also wanted to finish the book. so story telling session did not take place. (nyway, from the first session response.. they did not enjoy story telling.. then again i think it was due to our own fault as we had no actions/good technique during the story telllig)i seriously think we do not have enough time to fit all the activies above - without 'rushing' of cuz. the other level 2 groups (in my room) also had time to read the books only and no storytelling session (i think). a question: can we stop the kids while they are reading and go on to the next activity? i think we should. in a nice way. emm... we seriously need to work on the time management issue.
then comes the issue of fitting in a session for homework. i feel that will be quite hard. (my opinion)as we are already struggling to fit in the storytelling session. lets not have a slot for homework (i feel that its not evryweek that they would have some homework problem to ask us). but if they do really want our assistance, we try to do it after the reading slot. finish the reading quickly or something. i do not want to let them do their homework during the journalling time as journalling is more important.
my opinion k.
i thought i'd share my group's plan for this week.
i personally thought that among the level 2 groups last week, Donny's group (yes, the loudest group in my room)did a really good job. i'm inspired!!! the kids were jumping up and down, enjoying the story. it was two things in one: reading and story telling. (i think)and ms.tiffany is right on the advice that we should have ACTIONS!!! lots of ACTIONS during story telling or the reading slot. Donny's gropu were active and happy. from my eyes. my kids were jealous. haha.
so this week, daniel and i are planning to put in lots of action.. we're planning to read 'around the world in 80 days'. we are going to get the kids to go 'around the compound in an hour or less'. yes, outside activity. yeah, it does mean that we are cutting of the story telling slot. ( flexibility ryte?) while going around the compound , the kids will have to stop at 5 differnt pistops (London, India etc as in the story) and we continue reading the story at each pit stop. each kid would take turns to read the story (we're trying to teach them the value 'sharing' and 'pay attention when others are reading' plus overcome the problem of not having enuf man power for 'one on one reading') we also have a certain activity (keeping it short) at the pitstop. (we are even PLANNING to print lots of pictures of the different countries in the book) plus a bit of props. hahahha. this is a big plan i admit. (trying my best to make it happen). cuz guess what? (this is again my head speaking) i think there is no point of having them reading a book (yes, they become better at reading) if they do not enjoy the book!! or take reading as something that we force them to do. we need to make them lurrrveee reading (so that they continue to do so when they are older) and i believe that they would only enjoy reading if they keow that books are filled with adventures!!!! (i know.. i am not making sense. or this has already been higlighted by ms.tiffany and mr.yong before but i have this feeling that they just read cuz we they have to read. its like us who have to finish the really thick chemistry book cuz we have too!!! to survive?)
getting back to my point... if we really want to role play the stories... then we would need to prepare props (good ones.. not newspaper ones?!) and other things (then only will it be fun). why don;t we together choose some stories (nice ones) and prepare the props togethre as a big group. then one week, one group take the props and do the story with their kids and the other week, another group does the story. (me and daniel wanted to make a simple cardboard train (hhahaha. big plan ryte?) but we just cannot do it with two people. then.. at the end of everything.. everygroup would knoe the same story and we can merge them to discuss the stories (if this idea is really bad... feel free to say: hani.. you are making everything complicated!!!)
then again, my opinion...
me and daniel are also going to give them homework... hahahah. we are after all not going to meet them for for 2 weeks (the 4th session is on 22nd march ryte)... we are thinking of giving them TONGUE TWISTERS!!! hahahah. like simple ones. that they know and understand the words. i mean... it is still considered reading ryte? just for fun over the holidays. we are trying to do new things every session. need to let them know that it is not only books that they can read.. but tongue twisters, poems exist also!!! we all can brainstorm together the different activities that we can do with the kids.. i think that would be better. we seriously cannot have normal storytelling evry sessions. come on. i'm tired of it.
me and daniel are gonna give it a go. this plan of ours. we'll see how's the response. if they enjoy it then, we'll pass the idea to other groups...
c ya all tomorrow!!!.
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