SO WASTED! D<
gah!
today we were all there from 9.30 am till 12.00nn.
and i think, at least for me, it was pretty wasted DD:
the reason why we're even going back, i think, is cause we're worried for our tutees.. and we wanted to give them extra tuition during the holidays, that hopefully, they can improve alot and clear up all the doubts they have about the concepts taught from term1 to term2, before the schools start teaching new material in term 3 and 4.
but guess what?
last week, the primary 3s were off attending something in the library.
this week? the primary 3s were at a day camp conducted by acjc.
hopefully the acjc ppl uses the extraordinary time they have with the kids to brush up their concepts, and their character.
i hoping to see improvement in the children from the camp, either in character or studies.
or else i'm gonna criticise them like hell for stealing away and wasting the already-precious-and-scarce time we have with the kids (angry!)
so yeah. today i taught a primary 4 boy, the δΈηε friend of my last-week-buddy.
he's pretty smart, proficient in both english and chinese, which i totally wasn't back in primary 4.
he didn't need much help. but he was kinda ZZZzZZ cause he kept getting the wrong answers.
so we played a game similar to "who wants to be a millionaire?"
the close passage had 20 blanks. i gave him 3 lifelines.
50/50, where i cover half the answers, and he chooses from the other answers.
outright answer, where i tell him the answer and explain.
hint! i showed him, using the passage, what the word should mean, and he picks the correct word from the list given.
he finished super quick, and i had nothing to do. faith jiejie then told farah and i that the centre doesnt emphasize on work that much during the holidays! so we can go play with the kids. but the kids that we're close to, and would play with, are away at the day camp~~
so we wasted our time away, answering random questions from the children around us.
i hope that we'll get to tutor the children soon. failing is really serious, especially so in primary school. if they're flunking the subjects at primary school level, can you imagine they nightmare they're gonna face in secondary school, when they have to learn stuff lightning fast as the school rushes through the syllabus?!
and if they can't learn properly their concepts in lower primary, their foundation is gonna be weak, how are they gonna learn strongly their subjects in upper primary, and score well in the psle?!
im damned worried for them.
and they kinda remind me of myself, i dont want them to turn out like me T.T
and the stuff they learnt is different from ours. they're learning about penguin behavioral adaptations to it's cool climate, and ive got no idea.
and they can use calculators!! CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT?!
it's faster for them and all, but they'll get dependant on the calculator so young!
(to be frank, i think using the calculator dumb-ifed my brain. i used to think fast, cause of the mental sums, but i need to type stuff into the calculator to count now, i cant survive without it DD:)
i feel super unproductive and wasted. tmr we're bringing them out. but i think they've got day camp. oh wells.
bus's leaving at 1 pm tmr.
we're meeting at 12.15pm at lakeside mrt. reach by 12.30pm
and here ends the unhappy post of the apple jelly.
im hoping for a better time with them tomorrow.
Labels: 6.04.08, beryl
Jelly! wobbled @ Wednesday, June 4, 2008
