16th July ReFleCtiOn...
Heh heh..
Well, today i tutored J. She was restless and was not very focused. I helped her in mathematics.
The topic that she was doing was regarding distances. There were questions such as 1km800m- 925m=?m. Firstly, I reinforced with her the concept that 1km=1000m and that 1m=100cm. Next, I told her to make sure that the values are of the same unit before doing subtraction or addition. An example will be to convert 1km800m into 1800m first before proceeding with the later part of the question.
She knows how to solve such short-answer questions but was just too lazy to do them. I make her do her working out on the paper and checked them before she wrote it on her book. When it comes to problem sums, she shows a sign of disdain for it. She even asked me to help her do all. Of course I didn't and I guided her through the questions. I read the question out aloud to her and asked her what is the first step she would do. She answered it correctly and I allowed her to write it on her book.
This session with J showed that her maths has certainly improved as she know what to do and managed to complete her homework earlier as compared to the previous time whereby I was quite frustrated with her for being not serious with her work.
She enjoys looking at very LARGE model diagrams. I drew it out for her and she instantly knew what to do.
Upon completeing her work, we played tic-tac -toe. It was fun, i certainly enjoy playing with her. We also played hangman whereby I gave her a word to guess and then she will give me a word to guess. We also played treasure hunt. This game seem more like a mono-player game cos it was not very fun though.
Anyway, though I felt quite angry initially that she was still very restless, i managed to remain quite cool and that made both parties feel good............
J is just like any other kid. When it comes to playing, she is very interested but when it comes to doing maths she will be very restless. Oh yeah, J has a preference for CL not for maths, that's sad...
Labels: 7.16.08, jean
Jelly! wobbled @ Sunday, July 20, 2008
16.7.08 reflections
Reached the centre early again at 3.45
pmC most probably tell the volunteers there that she don't like me, so i never go find her again.
Therefore, i was sitting by myself, without a
tutee and doing my homework.
After a while, i was introduced a
pri 3 by the name of JH whom i have never seen before to be taught.
It was maths problem sums corrections.
He said he knows how to draw models but is lazy.
So i drew using my marker pen for him and explained the way to go about solving the question.
He was a pretty good
tutee, cause unlike others, he asked me to explain again when he don't understand a part. Most
tutees that i taught before only wants the answer and couldn't be bothered about not understanding.
He also learnt very fast, being able to apply what he has learnt in the first question to other questions.
This is what he learnt:
1) How to use models to see the question more clearly, such as counting how many units there are.
2) what does 1 unit stands for. How to find 1 unit given 6 units = a number.
3) Other units must be of the same size for that unit to be equal.
I guess it is pretty successful even though he only did 4 corrections in all, due to the percussion session which lasted for >1 hr.
He was distracted some times. But at least, he is willing to do workings such as addition and multiplication by himself even though he sees my calculator right in front.
This is what I learnt from him:
1)some lame jokes such as :
Q What are you doing yesterday at 10 am?
A Breathing. (its quite lame cause studying can also be an answer)
2)His science is not bad cause he scored 80/100 according to him.
3)He had me on Wednesdays,
MGS tutor on Thursdays and
ACS(I) tutor on Friday.
4)He said that his maths is "good but not good." (?????)
This is what i found out:
1) He likes to use markers to do work, perhaps it is the markers which enabled him to listen to me and write every steps and workings by himself.
2) He (and a lot of
pri 3) has too much exposure to things that he should not know at his age.
3) His model drawing needs to be improved.
At the end of the day, he passed me a small note to be opened only when i reached home.
It written "tank you Sarah" with a picture of a sun flower (exactly like what i drew when i was
pri 3). So sweet of him =))) even though he spelt "thank" wrongly =P.
Labels: 7.16.08, sarah
Jelly! wobbled @ Thursday, July 17, 2008
16th July~
All there from 3.40 to 5.50! pm.
Using Mr Liu's idea, i brought something little to show him how the apple question works. Wanted to bring lego blocks, but i couldnt find enough..
so i brought little stones instead!
he could understand pretty well, but it was kinda hard to get him to listen to me and watch me move around the stones, when all he wanted to do was touch them himself -.-
but in the end he was willing to listen to me, after i promised him he could use the stones after he understands the question. then i asked him to explain for me all over again how the question should be solved, he could do it :DD
so yeah, question down! then we moved on to his other questions! since we already had the stones on the table, we decided to use the stones to help us understand the question, cause he likes moving the stones around, and was perfectly happy to use the stones to make "3D-models".
the red stones represent the ring, the blue stone represents the chain!using the stones were good, though sometimes he gets super carried away and cant be bothered to do the questions.
he went off halfway for some percussion lesson, and when he came back he informed me that he was gonna have percussion lessons every wednesday at 3.30!!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Last time the band thingy by the other school took away An from 3.30 till 5. now this?! omgggggggg.
i seriously want to ask the centre whether An can get removed from the other programme, but An likes to play percussion , plus Farah's Ro said that An was specially chosen!
sigh. guess i'll have to make use of our remaining time every wed super productively!
anyways, we were productive yesterday, and i think he's improved in his model drawing! :DD
*doing work seriously*haha, gonna bring stones again next week! and i'll try looking for other coloured ones too :DD
one last pic:
did this when An was @ percussion, fenghan's heart was wayy nicer! :DD
and thus i left happily :DDLabels: 7.16.08, beryl
Jelly! wobbled @ Wednesday, July 16, 2008
nine(teen! :D) of july thinkings
We were all there from 3.45 to 5.35 today!
Tutored An today again. We had a lot of model drawing to do! SO! we did the questions :DD
tried explaining to him the 3-box-4-box-how-many-apple question using mr liu's method that i mentioned in the last post, but he cannot understand! or rather, he was "huh?" and very impatient and hence too frustrated to try and understand the concept slowly.
during the day, i realised that An is visual/kinestatic learner! he understands immediately when you draw him a diagram to represent the question, but he isn't interested enough to actually do the question. so his "kinestatic" trait kicks in and he's only willing to do when he moves stuff around.
i realised that mr gan uses kinestatic methods to teach us, or at least the visuals on the board/ projector screen move around. i cant do the same with An cause the setting is different, plus he likes to move stuff using his own hands and not watch me move them, so little objects are needed instead! lego blocks! :DD
he also has this new little quirk, and it helps to keep him interested in the questions cause he dosent get "sianned". He likes to be a flower, then after he's done with every question, he will "wilt" and collapse onto the table and demand that i water him. so i have no choice but to imaginary-ly pour invisible water on him to help him "grow" until he's an "adult flower" and hence be able to attentively listen to me explain the him to question, or attempt the question himself. It's good that he amuses himself and creates his own "fillers", but it's kinda boring after a while when i have to keep "watering" him and be careful not to "over-water" him, incase he wilts due to excessive rain.
so we were pretty productive, not bad :DD.
as for reflection on my behavior, i think i was okay, but i shouldnt have shown my bored face when i have to keep on watering him. i dont think it made a difference to An, but if i were him, i wouldnt feel good if my tutor showed she was bored with me DD:
Labels: 7.09.08, beryl
Jelly! wobbled @
16 july
went back to model drawing sums today
finished about 8 questions after much nagging and hard work
guess Ron was rather tired today -- first time heard him say that he was tired
and i too became restless soon after
he had this gun and rubberband thingy which distracted him
so i just kept calling his name until he listened which works -- but i ended up being very thirsty
same problems again associated with model-drawing , Ron didnt even try and just give up saying he dunno how to do
as our theme for E&C goes "it takes only a spark..." i provided him with one and helped him get started and assisted him with the rest of the model-drawings
still found it especially hard to teach when he's not focused and i realised how smooth-sailing tutoring has gone for me for all these time teaching Ron
however today, i was shocked that he actually asked me to provide him with the workings without the answer so that he could copy
obviously i did not comply ...
Ron was aware that i shouldnt write on his book, so everytime (for the first time today) he told me out of laziness that 'dont need draw (model) one" i said "ok i draw for you" and he would be hesistant, or even afraid of punishment -- then he would rather draw himself
must say that the problem sums were not easy, with 7 out of the 8 being star questions
would be quite hard to solve without drawing models and some flexibility in imagination
thus the outcome was still quite good -- for me still
yet i wonder whether Ron would be able to solve them by himself if the questions were to appear again -- i think not
was quite a fruitful day
told Ron jokes to keep him interested -- should prepare more simple jokes as i was pratically telling him one for every question
observed too, that i have never played games with any of the kids there even after so many visits :{
before the 8 problem sums, we also went through some corrections regarding money problems
all were careless mistakes made during subtraction and addition
-- would come up with some interesing ways (such as beryls' colourful stones) to engage Roydenn
Labels: 7.16.08, farah
Jelly! wobbled @
9 .7.o8 reflections
Never teach C that day. She did come, i just feel that she would finish her work faster without my help. So i just left told her that she can find me if she need any help. Though right after that the adult volunteer told me she can take care of her. I guess C has told her that she doesn't want to be taught by me, so i just went to do my own work. I guess it's better like that. Before i came, she usually sat down there doing her own work until i came then she reluctantly left her place and her pace slowed down. Since i can see that she look for the adult
volunteer for help whenever she faced problems, so it's alright. However,
I'm worried she would not be able to understand what the adult teaches since she
usually just wants the
answer and could not be bothered understanding.
So i did my own work for quite while, hoping that some
Pru 3 would ask me to help them in their work.
Sooo...
JL came along. I thought him
English. His
English is actually not bad even though one of the volunteer said his standard is very
lousy. But, he kept on pronouncing usually as unusually. His sentence structure is also incomplete or not "smooth" when doing comprehension.
Still, his character is much better and
I'm able to communicate better with him. I left some notes for him to bring home and learn. Hope that he will really make an effort to remember. Even though it is obvious that Primary 3 kids are too
Young and may not have realised the importance of studying.
Labels: 7.09.08, sarah
Jelly! wobbled @ Monday, July 14, 2008
9th July reflections
Well, today thaught Sel as per normal luh. She was doing her maths corrections when i went. I didn't really bring anything with me, so Sel thought i've got nothing to do. So she went to her bag to take out her chinese textbook for me to copy and draw again. On the top of the white paper that she gave me, was what she drew from the textbook. Honestly it was quite nicely drawn for a primary 3 kid XD She told me to draw at the bottom of the paper, while she continues to do her work.
She'll get distracted once in a while, turning her head to see the others run about, or staring at me draw. then i told her, if she continues staring at my drawing, then i'd stop drawing. Unless she can continue concentrating on her work. Then she turned back to do her work. Hahaha so obedient.
She's a lot more talkative than last time. Maybe that's cos she's more familiar with me already. But overall she still listens to me, and is still relatively easy to teach :D besides, she cheers me up at times hahaha. Oh, she called me a clown, -.- cos i did that, yeah this >> -.- << LOL.
Labels: 7.09.08, fenghan
Jelly! wobbled @
9th jUly ReFleCtiOn...
On the 9
th of July... ...
I tutored J in Chinese. She was not sure about answering the comprehension questions so I guided her by going through the passage once more with her so as to make sure that she understood the passage. I also clarified her doubts. I asked her where in the passage can she find the answer and she could point it out correctly to me. I was quite happy though.
Oh, by the time I reached the centre she has already finished doing her maths. That was pretty fast,huh? She complained
that I taught her the wrong stuff??? The problem sums at the end were wrong, somehow she did it by herself and got it wrong... Out of all the questions that I helped her there were only 2 that were wrong that was because I overlooked the statement. There was another question in which she anyhow filled in the numbers but still got it wrong...
After I had tutored J, I tutored M. M is a nice boy except that he can be quite
mischievous at times. I taught him how to calculate the difference in distances. Today's session was not as taxing as the others. I finished teaching him his corrections and we started revising multiplication and division since we had got extra time. After which, I revised with him his problem sums and made him draw model diagrams. He understood the question but was a little careless in his calculations. He was also a little lazy and would only do the workings on paper when I instructed him to do so......
After teaching him for a while we both got a little bored. So we decided to play tic-tac-toe so as to pass time as well as to interact with these kids. We played numerous rounds and finally here is the result.... ....
Interested to know about the result,
continue to scroll down...
The champion is...
M ......Well, I enjoyed today's session and I hoped that next time I can finish tutoring my tutee earlier and have ample time to interact with them...
Labels: 7.09.08, jean
Jelly! wobbled @ Sunday, July 13, 2008
9 july
maths with Ron again
we did mass (kg, g) -- 1kg = 1000g
had to do addition and subtraction e.g. 4kg 9g - 2kg 55g
realised that it was easier for Ron to convert all to grams before calculating e.g. 4009-2055
then convert all back to kg and g
or else he would easily forget the zeroes and do like 409-255 especially when the g does not consist of 3digits
there was carelessness on Ron's part too when he forget the zeroes behind when writing in grams -- had to do corrections cos he simply tikam and anyhow break down the digits into kg and g e.g. 4972 = 49kg 72g cause it looks even that way, when its actually 4kg 972g
reminded Ron regarding the steps to tackle mass problems before going off
#1 convert kg and g into g -- if g is only 1digit/2digits, add 2/1zero(es) in front to make the g consist of 3digits, e.g. 057g
#2 solve as per normal
#3 last 3 digits = grams, the rest falls under kg
Labels: 7.09.08, farah
Jelly! wobbled @ Saturday, July 12, 2008
2nd juLy Reflection...
Hmmm...
Todae, I tutored another P3 student called Js. This is because my tutee, Pam was taught by another tutor...so sad... Never mind, Js is quite a smart girl. I tutored her maths . She was lsitening to me attentively initially but later part of the day she got tired and her attention was deviated. I allowed her to go to the washroom to wash her face and to drink some water before continuing on her work. This is because i believed that if i continue explaining to her all the boring maths stuff, she will get tired and become frustrated or even bored.
Js kept on spilling water while drinking and i say 'hey so you have a hole in your chin is it?' She giggled. Afterwards, we went back to serious work. I taught her using the ratio method. I also gave an analogy to help her understand even better. Afterwhich I also gave a simple example to try on. This is to ensure that she truly understood what i told her just now.
Upon completeing 2 pages, I kept my promise and asked her a question. The question is "what type of key cannot be used to open the door?"
She guessed that it was a fake key, a wrong key,a golden key.....(NAH all wrong...)
The answer was A DONKEY, of course it can also be A MONKEY...
I tried to help her solve the difficult questions which she does not know. I think that she was just too anxious to go and play with her friends that she said "never mind , just fill in any numbers'
I am shocked. I also learnt that she disliked maths...=(
I feel that she should not take maths as a guessing game. In all, I did manage to help her complete the task assigned to her by her teachers. She is quite restless towards the end and I think that her attention span was not very long. She was either daydreaming or looking elsewhere when I was explaining to her how to go about answering a particular question. This made me having to explain a question umpteem times. This somehow hindered our progress and we completed a few pages of mathe in about 5/2 hours. This was quite inefficient, i think.
Along the way, I helped M in Chinese. He does not know how to complete the sentences and I gave him a few examples. Hopefully, he will learn from there.
Labels: 7.02.08, jean
Jelly! wobbled @ Sunday, July 6, 2008
2nd JULY. (2 more days to USA's national day. :D)
JULY ALR. TIME FLIES FREAKING FAST. @.@
TODAY WE ALL WENT! 4.30 to 6.20. :DD
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HOHO! bought An chocolates to say sorry over the stupid question last week.
incompetent tutor D:
he was very 'man' and said "i dont need chocolates. i will listen to you one."
aww! =3
so anyway, we did the questions fast today! super productive, finished 8 questions in slightly more than an hour! :DD
he was in a happy happy mood, and plus i think it was cause he told me that he would listen to me even without the chocolates. he just say, cannot possibly retract his statement so quick :DD
i realised that they all have a bad habit.
when they dont know something, they'll go
them: "this x that x this x this! right?" *jabs randomly at paper*
me: noo.. why do you think so?
them "dunno leh. OHOH! how about this x that x that! *jabs somemore*
me: nooo!! dont anyhow guess leh!
them: "oh. okay. SO, it's this x this x that right?"
me: *faints*
and some of them also have this bad habit, thinking that we'll tell them the answers, and so they're too lazy to think!
i think, for both the problems, we have to clarify (and kill any hopes) that we'll not let them anyhow guess and tell them answers!
how about saying this
" young jedi, before we start on this horrible programme, please sign this contract. by signing, you promise on your pencilcase that you will Not anyhow guess answers, Will listen to us explain, *inserts simple instructions here*"
anyway, that session with An was :DDD!
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That day Sarah was having a terrible time. What was wrong?
C's attitude. it was super horrible.
She was just sitting there, totally ignoring Sarah.
And that continued for god knows how long. actually i know. about the entire session.
Sarah had a hell lot of patience, and was still trying to convince and persuade her to concentrate.
Even i got angry watching C, AND I WASNT EVEN TEACHNG HER. OMG.
*salutes Sarah for your unrivaled patience! :D*
i wanted to march over, and yank the little ap kid till she pays attention to me, and tell her that if she doesnt want to learn, don't waste sarah's time and energy.
she has 2 options:
either improve until the teachers feel she's too good to be tutored.
or listen to sarah and improve.
If Sarah taught any other kids, i tell you, they'll all be loving her to bits. Which tutor would go compile a cute mini working book for you, buy erasers for you, sit there and persuade you to do your work for 2 hrs?! and sarah didnt lose her temper, and just endured C's blacky face.
what the hell?! Whose the one benefitting from this tutoring, huh? whose the one shelling out time and energy to tutor, huh? Sarah isn't obliged to sit there and take your shit, little missy.
This kid has a serious attitude problem.
Hmm. Scolding her probably wont have any effect. Maybe a talk? but sarah can't be the one doing it.. cause it'll be odd.
eg:
sarah: C, i am not obliged to teach you. sometimes you may feel bored and you might not want to do, and start to ignore me and day dream. you feel that its okay for you, since you prefer to day dream instead of using your brains and doing your work. but dont forget that i'm here to teach you. and you're wasting my time and energy. i can leave any time i want to teach someone else, but because im committed to helping you, i'm still here teaching you. The teachers asked you to be taught by me because you're weaker in your maths. Do you want to be stuck with me for forever? Pay attention to me, and let's work together to improve your maths. you're smart enough, just not enough will and determination to make an effort.
on the other hand, i think can leh XD
on the other other hand, i think it's a bit odd for such words to be leaving Sarah's mouth. doesnt fit her Mother Theresa image O.O
maybe get someone else to "counsel" C?
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to defuse sianness, maybe do a little activity before starting, like the simon says thingy mentioned earlier. :DD
im pretty sure the kids like moving about when they're bored, like jumping randomly and flapping like an obese bird. cause i like to do that sometimes too XDD
move your body! :DD
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lotsa stuff to discuss on monday!
- C's problem
- Filler = jumping around? simon says? 哎呀，总而言之就是要动就对了拉。
- student file update! :D
- (if you all wanna add anything here, just edit this post :D)
Labels: 7.02.08, beryl
Jelly! wobbled @ Saturday, July 5, 2008
27th June
We were there from 4.00pm to 6.20pm, Sarah and Tuyan didnt go due to their mass bio lecture.
Taught An and JL today, since her ACJC tutor didnt come and she needed help.
JL wasnt willing to do at first, but once she saw that i was carrying the marker pens, she instantly started to take out the markers and start writing and doing willingly. But when she met with questions that she didnt know how to do, she went like "har. jiejie, how to do?"
the first few times i taught, she listened carefully and when i asked her to explain for me everything again, she could. However, the next few times, she just got sian-ed and went "eh, jiejie, tell me how to do leh." and then copy down what i say word for word, then prance off to go toilet or something. DD:
needa find a way to get her attention, and to prevent sian-ness!!
An was, to my not-so-surprise, was happy to see me, and of course that made me happy!!
:D
Things were going fine, his attitude was splendid, and he was still joking around with Farah's Ro.
He wanted to play abit, and i let him, after every question was done, so the atmosphere was rather relaxed. And because he was happy to get to play, he was also happy to listen to me. But then we met with the stupid question.
You have a number of apples. When put into boxes of 3, you have 5 more boxes than if you put the apples into boxes of 4. How many apples do you have?
i was O.O. how on earth do you show that in models?!
me: since they didnt state the smallest possible number of apples..
my stupid method:
If you have (3 x 4)(1) apples, you have 4 boxes of 3, 3 boxes of 4. you have 1 more box of 3 than 4.If you have (3 x 4)(2) apples, you have 8 boxes of 3, 6 boxes of 4. you have 2 more boxes of 3 than 4.If you have (3 x 4)(3) apples, you have 12 boxes of 3, 9 boxes of 4. you have 3 more boxes of 3 than 4.If you have (3 x 4)(4) apples, you have 16 boxes of 3, 6 boxes of 12. you have 4 more boxes of 3 than 4.If you have (3 x 4)(5) apples, you have 20 boxes of 3, 15 boxes of 4. you have 5 more boxes of 3 than 4.Yeah, i know its pretty confusing. but I had to teach An to answer the question!!
and this was the simplest method i thought of.
Needless to say, he started getting frustrated and angry again, and me too. cause i explained the whole system and wrote it out for him at least 5 times, and spent 45 mins on this already.
so i consulted Farah!
She used algebra!
Let X be the number of boxes.4X = 3X + 5X = 5Number of apples4X = 60!so i tried teaching this to An, and he still couldnt understand! (this one was kinda expected, cause he has no idea what algebra is, but worth a try :DD)
Then i looked at the other childrens' books. they all did corrections for the question, and they said Auntie Sharm taught them that. So i went off to find her, with An's book in hand. And she said that the question itself was rather baffling, and that none of the teachers could get it. so she told me to split the question into two and everything. then i mentioned to her Farah's method, to show that the question isn't wrong. It's just that i dont know how to teach An this.
Then she just told me to randomly fob off An, anything to get the answer first.
So i went back and told An alot of junk @.@.
Yeah, but that's been cleared up cause Mr Liu taught us how to show using the model method.
the 5 extra boxes were absorbed by the 4-each-boxes!
How many apples are in the 5 extra boxes?
5x3 = 15.
These 15 apples were "absorbed" by the boxes of 4. Each box can absorb 1.(cause 4-3=1)
The apples were absorbed fully. meaning there were 15boxes of 4.
How many apples were there?
15x4! = 60!
yeap :DD
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Ive realised that I've turned from a interesting tutor to a sian-ed one too. DD:
Last time, i was super energetic when i was with them, but i always ended up dead beat and super tired when i get home..
Recently, i seem to be cant-be-bothered anymore. and when i get home, i still have energy O.O
eg: when the kids couldnt concentrate last time, i would 撒娇 shamelessly until they laugh and are more willing to listen to me and do their work.
now, when they show disinterest, i just make half-hearted attempts to get their attention, like saying "An, pay attention pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease?". and if they dont pay attention, then i lose interest too, and give them this annoyed look; -_-. DD:
I think i was better when i just started out. DD:
Time for reflection on my part.
p/s. since the kids seem to love simon-says so much. im thinking of having mini-simon-says whenever they get bored. (like the fillers that mr liu mentioned)Part of the fun of simon says is when the laughing when someone does it wrong, so make sure you do it too!
Maybe we can pair up, 2 children, and 2 of us. or bigger, if possible. XD
The atmosphere and the centre has gotten seriously sian. time to
liven it up! before we all die of boredom :DD
whenever youre bored, stand up and do stupid actions! :DD
Labels: 6.27.08, beryl
Jelly! wobbled @
lousy day, 2.7.08 reflections
Today is a damn lousy day. Actually i didn't feel like going to the centre as i am worried about the problems I and C will face again due to our lack of interaction and also due to me missing some tutoring session due to school.
Things turn out worse than what i expected.
Firstly, as usual, she doesn't want me to teach her as she wants to be with her friends. Thus from her expression, i can see that she was very unwilling to be taught by me.
I asked her what homework she has, she told me its 4 problem sums question. Okay, i thought, it is going to be quite fast.
However, since i first asked her to read the first problem sums, she got turned off and couldn't be bothered.
Seeing her like that, i asked her, " You don't want me to teach you is it, do you want to sit there? You don't know how to do? You tired is it? Why you don't want to do?" No response, and these goes on for like hours. She simply turn away, and look at her friends, draw circles...
Then I feel really piss and helpless not knowing what to do.
After some time, i showed her my scrap book for doing rough workings, give her the eraser that i bought for her, hoping that she could at least talk to me. But to no avail. I felt really sad and grew more and more frustrated.
Next, seeing that the time has past and other
tutees doing the same thing has started on the third problem already, i am worried. So guessing that C is most probably tired to do those problem sums, i drew diagrams and boxes just wanting her to fill in the blanks with numbers. I even did the addition for her! Finally, the question was finished, but i also not sure whether she is able to do the question again by herself. However i feel that she is able to write the statement for the problem sums quite well knowing when to and not to write past tense.
On to the second question, i asked her to read the question. She did not even read and turned away. The whole thing repeats itself again. I was really helpless, luckily beryl came to my rescue and attract C's attention for a while. After that she turned away again. Don't know after how much prompting and waiting, she would write some numbers in my box. Some time the numbers are random, as she did not even read the question and i have to correct her. Then more waiting... before she finally finished the 2
nd question.
After that, i gave her 5 min break hoping that she would come back not looking so glum. 5 minutes over, i called her back and she once again sat on her chair staring at her friends, laughing but not wanting to talk to me nor finish her task. I looked at the problem sums, it only requires 2 steps and it is done. However, i did not remember how long i waited before her friends asked her to play with them and she
chionged the 2 steps by herself.
Then on to the last question. It is not easy and requires model drawing. "do you know how to draw models?"
"No," she replied. By then her friends were all around her telling her to faster finish it.
"she knows. She just don't want to do," she friends were telling me
"i don't know," C replied
"Is C maths good?" I asked
"Not bad. She can do want but she lazy only"
However, i guess the last question is really hard as she is unable to
chiong like the 3rd question. She asked me how to do. Then i drew the models out for her. Preparing to teach her, she was busy talking to her friends treating me as invisible. Then i was showing the piss face, her friends noticed it but she doesn't.
" Faster do! She angry already" her friends tell her, but she could not seem to bother.
So i got really angry and said, "next time i make you sit beside the aunties"
Her reply was really shocking," sit
lor,
bagus ( Malay word for "Good")!"
Then her friends helped her finished the problem sums and she happily handed it to one of the volunteers there then went off to play.
How will she be able to learn if her attitude remains unwilling. And when she's not doing anything, how i can know of her weak areas? Then, i thought it may help if i buy her something, but it is not of any help as seen today. Now i really don't know what to do and how to help her. Any suggestion guys? =((((((
Labels: 7.02.08, sarah
Jelly! wobbled @ Friday, July 4, 2008
2 July
finished some pages on maths problems related to money today
-- wasnt a very difficult topic, more of easy rather, thus Ron was able to finish most of it all by himself without assistance
sadly though, Ron still needs some prompting to focus on his work as he, like the previous few visits, get distarcted very easily, especially when being around friends
realised Ron actually very Man, cause he refused to sit where i told him to sit at, where the whole row is being occupied by girls
must really thank Ron for being such a nice tutee to teach -- very cute, willing to learn and listen, interactive, and smart as well! Ron's handwriting had improved tremendously from the first day i saw him and I finally also came to knowledge that Ron is very good at reading
my encounters with other tutees had shown that most were unable to recognise the words used in the problem sums, had difficulty pronouncing the words, unable to understand the question, or simply cant read or dun wan to read at all.
however, Ron always read loud and clear without any problem whenever i tell him to read the question, and was able to comprehend and remember what the question is trying to say and what the question wants you to do perfectly.
he's also especially good at writing statements, remembering the past/ present tense, sentence structure and plural/singular
-- must be very gd at english!
sadly though, despite of all the schoolwork and assessement books given to him by the centre,
Ron told me he had tuition for all his 4 subjects -- Eng, Math, Chi and Sci
what a busy boy! ;(
Also taught XY maths today .. the normal addition and subtraction of litres and mililitres
i guess i underestimated XY, he's really very good at chinese!
for maths, just some careless mistakes made when doing subtractions problems,
and he had difficulty pronoucing words like 'volume'and 'capacity'
moreover, he repeatedly mistook 'contains' for 'container' and 'bottle' for 'water bottle' and frequently miss out words when writing statements
nevertheless, quite a nice guy to teach, cute and engaging
Labels: 7.02.08, farah
Jelly! wobbled @ Wednesday, July 2, 2008
27 juNe
nothing new with Ron today ..
played with *eraser dust* at 'regular intervals'
Ron once again proved that he's a very nice person by sharing his 'beloved' eraser dust with his friend
some more, he even used a paper and wrapped the eraser dust up nicely, enclosed with a stapler and brought it home
-- made me feel very touched :))
however, Ron's quite easily distracted and i had to make him focus on his work, though i didnt really succeeded in doing so
finished up the corrections but realised that Ron learn and forget fast,
meaning that if he were to redo the question he did wrongly before,
he's most likely to repeat the same mistakes and be unable to do it
thus, i have to really make sure he learn his corrections well -- perhaps go through the question with him and have him write down the workings correctly in the book without refering to the corrections he did earlier
Labels: 6.27.08, farah
Jelly! wobbled @
the red stones represent the ring, the blue stone represents the chain!
*doing work seriously*
did this when An was @ percussion, fenghan's heart was wayy nicer! :DD