21st May!
hmm!
today we had the X-country! which ended at about 11.30am~
then we took bus and had lunch, during lunch did last min preparations, then arrived at the centre at 2.30pm.
WE WERE ALL THERE FROM 2.30PM TO 5.50PM TODAY :DD
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i sorta expected today to go well, but it didnt exactly..
1. we were all tired cause of the X-country, even if tuyan, feng and i didn't run -.-
2. last week, 12 kids. this week, 23 kids (+2 that came later)
3. tutor first, then have the game (we were all tired from the tutoring alr)
4. as the game was after tutoring, it started late, ended late, a few kids went home in the midst of the game.
5. i didnt prepare properly for this one. sorry jellies i.i
basically, what went on:
- realised that the kids couldnt afford the time to play.. many failed their exams (including my An), and are behind in their work..
- discussed with Faith jiejie, she said it was fine.. cause during hols they still needa attend "lessons", so still okay-okay
- auntie catherine thought it was better to have all the primary 3 kids play the game, cause it's fair-er, and last week alot didnt get to play..
- there were 2 ACJC girls there tutoring.. they seemed pretty nice, and i felt bad about stealing away their tutees after they only taught for an hour.. so i invited them to take over my station (split into 2 for them) and be station masters while i take photos!
- realised i didnt prepare any paper for station masters to sign... then i just anyhow tear paper.. i think the boring-ness of the paper got affected their mood to playD:
- at first got 21 kids, very nice alr! (7 groups mah)! then 4 lil ones appeared one by one.. so in the end, some groups got 4, some got 3
- it started late, a few kids had to go home! no. of ppl in each group now ranged from 4-2
- disagreements over grouping started happening.. there was fighting within the groups.. cause there was too many ppl, many were saying "i havent even seen the paper, and my groupmates already answered the question. then why should i play?" (GROUPS TOO BIG!)
- some wandered off cause they were "useless" in their groups
- they were very very very very noisy.. and very difficult to control.. auntie catherine came to tell me the game was too noisy 2134657854353 times!
- kids remarked some questions were too difficult, made them demoralised (logic + chinese station)(somemore so qiao3.. one after the other)
- the only redeeming part was simon says.. they were super enthu about it, for some reason.. i just said "okay, now we shall play simon says." then they screamed "YAY!"
and they went along quite willingly to all my stupid actions! Farah and Sarah said that lil Ro put his foot on the table cause he cannot hold it up! LOL
my thoughts:
- super jumbled up.. even though we planned to avoid this, there wasnt a clean transition from one station to another.. cause the groups were big, and they ambled around slowly!
- instead of firing questions, the kids took all the questions, and spread out among themselves to do!! (cause last time got 3, choose one. now is alot.. maybe station masters werent strict enough, so the kids dared to just take)
- when planning, we didnt take into consideration the problems big grps would pose.. like the internal fighting (why you all never let me see question? why you take question first?), the talk-while-walking-super-slowly attitude they would adopt in big groups..
- having 4 rowdy boys in a group is pure terror.. they'll get emboldened, then speak damn loudly and become super hard to control.. but if separate, they sulk and say they wanna be together.
- I NEVER EVER WANNA ARRANGE STATION GAMES FOR ALL OF THEM EVER AGAIN.
- but i wanna try others!
LIKE TEACHING "DOLL DANCE"!
using simon says as a "morning exercise?"
play musical statue!
teach UG cheer! (cannibal king!)
HAHA :DD
as for the tutoring..
An didn't bring his paper.. he said his teacher kept it..
and i saw his report book! his science went from 37 to 70, chinese got improve, english from 47 to 37, maths from 57 to 56..
i dont know whether i can his progess from the paper, as the SA may have been harder or easier than the CA.. i think i can only know by comparing with the other kids..
hopefully the SA was harder.. :DD
realised that An got lucky in his paper.. i only realised today that he isn't good at model drawing at all!! cause his assessment books required corrections, and almost all were from questions needing model drawing.. and i also realised that the aunties didnt teach him by using models, but by using algebra! *faints*
so yeah, gotta strengthen him on that..
hmm
to do list:
- BUY BOX TO CATCH SPIDERS
- THE PRIZES FOR THE KIDS
- (needa buy more prizes alr.. didnt realise will have so many kids @.@
maybe one pencil for each, and the winners get extra? anyone willing to go buy more notepads? xDD)
beryl's off to do her maths alr.. but im very tired @.@
nights! :DD
p/s photos some other time :D
Labels: 5.21.08, beryl
Jelly! wobbled @ Wednesday, May 21, 2008
