Try to read this!
This can test your reading skill.
Thursday, 28 June 2012
Wednesday, 27 June 2012
JULY 2012 WEEKENDS TIME TABLE
PHONICS BEGINNER
Title:
Phonics ABC
Objective:
For this session, I will give them a short assessment on their phonics (G to H) in order to ensure they understand what they had learned during sessions. In the rhyme session, I will teach them “If you happy song”. During activity session, I will teach them to make a cute origami bear face.
Title:
Phonics ABC
Objective:
For this session, I will teach children alphabets (I and J) and its phonics sound. In the singing session, they will learn the hokey pokey song. While in activity session, children will play a memory game in order to test their memory ability.
PHONICS ADVANCED
Title:
We like things on earth
Objective:
In this week, children will learn about things on earth. In the rhyme session, I will teach them to sing “If you happy song”. During activity session, children will learn to make a cute origami bear face.
Title:
We learn about shapes
Objective:
In this week, children will master different types of shapes. In the rhyme session, children will learn “hokey pokey” song. In the activity session, children have to draw something by using different shapes.
STORY READING
Title:
Car
Objective:
This week, children will learn about “car” and its function as well. Besides, children have to tell their friends about their dream cars. In the activity session, children have to invent their own brand’s car. In the sharing session, each child has to come out to share their ideas (new invent car) with friends.
Title:
Bicycle
Objective:
This week, children will learn about “bicycle” and its function. In addition, in the activity session, children have to design a brand new bicycle for little children. In the sharing session, children have to share their ideas in front in order to make them have more interaction with friends.
READING
Title:
Television
Objective:
For this activity, I will give student reading activities which topic is “Television”. In the activity session, students have to list down the television’s advantages and disadvantages. During the sharing session, they have to come out and share their ideas.
Title:
Being friends
Objective:
This week, we will discuss a topic which is “friends”. In the activity session, children have to write a story about their friends . In the sharing session, they have to come out to share and tell their story.
23/24 JUNE 2012 PHONICS ADVANCED AND STORT READING (SESSION 3)
In our phonics advanced session, children had learned another new thing – Emotions.
They had learned how to differentiate different types of emotion such like happy, sad, angry, guilty, frightened, guilty, confident, bored, anxious and confused.
Each of them must show teacher their different type of emotions.
Through this activity, we want them to recognize dissimilar categories of emotions, so they can express all the feeling in the different situation.
Usually, children know the basic emotion such like sad, happy and angry.
But for others emotions such like guilty, anxious, confused, they have difficulty to recognize it.
This is not meant that they are not smart enough, but due to they could not recognize different of emotions.
They have feeling, but they do not know how to express their feelings.
In the story telling, session, they learned about their family.
Usually, children will confuse the relationship between nephews, nieces and cousins.
They just used very simple words, “they are my relatives” to differentiate their family members statuses.
In the activity sessions, children have to draw their family members' faces. Yeah, they did very good job, I like their drawings.
Some of them told me that they did not know how to draw all faces, but after teacher guide them how to draw in simple ways, they able to make it.
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
16 AND 17 JUNE 2012 PHONICS (Beginner) AND STORT READING (SESSION 2)
This week, the children had learned the alphabets G and H.
Besides that, we also teach them to rhyme “I am little teapot” song. They love the song very much.
Especially Natalie, she stands on the stage and performed that song and dance.
In the activity session, I teach them to make a cute origami house, yeah, children very enjoyed with that activity, and they came out with very creative and cute artwork.
In addition, it trained their hand movement (folding the paper in the correct manner) and listening skills (following the teacher’s instructions).
In the storytelling session, I gave the children an article about animal- Apes.
The children had learned 5 different types of apes such like Orangutan, Bonobos, Chimpanzee, gibbons and so on.
In the game session, children played snake and ladders game, where in this game, it required children to talk and share about themselves.
Thursday, 14 June 2012
TOP TEN MISTAKES PARENTS MAKE
Nagging and Lecturing
Parents frequently don't begin nagging children about homework and study habits until there is a problem (e.g., being poor with homework or not wanting to do homework at all). Nagging merely makes the problem worse because your child will either get annoyed at you or tune you out. Instead, attempt to problem-solve together with your child. Ask them to come up with some ideas on their own for how to develop this condition. Brainstorm about how to make homework more fun. Try out at least one of their ideas and discuss how it worked.
Taking Over
You don't trust your child to get things done right, so you tell them what to do, when and how. This may work in the short run but doesn't teach children to become independent learners who take responsibility for their work. Instead of taking over, help your child figure out what they need to do by asking questions: "What will you do? When will you do it? How will I know? How do you want me to hold you accountable for this?"
Focusing on the Future Benefits of School
As parents, we know how important a good education will be later in life. Just don't expect your children to be motivated by this idea; they are more focused on the here and now and give little thought to the future. To motivate them, focus on the immediate benefits of learning (having fun, developing new skills, and ability to play team sports in school if grades are good.)
Leaving Homework for the End of the Day
If homework is scheduled too late in the evening, with only bedtime to follow and no time to play, children won’t be motivated to be efficient, and also won’t want to go to bed since they haven’t had any fun yet. Increase your children’s motivation to complete homework by giving them something to look forward to afterwards. Favorite TV shows, videogames, talking on the phone, or having a special snack are all great rewards after homework is completed, and may provide the extra incentive your child needs to get through a boring and tedious task.
Insisting on Long Study Sessions
"You will sit here until all your homework is done" - this can feel overwhelming to children and create resistance, resulting in conflict. Instead, schedule 10-15 minutes of study time, followed by a 5-min. break, then another 15 minutes of study. Repeat as often as necessary to complete homework. Children actually get more done that way.
Grounding Children for Missed Assignments and Poor Grades
This is not effective for helping them do better in the future. Instead, use problem solving ("What would help you do better next time?"), offer support, and give them incentives for good performance (extra privileges, special rewards).
Not Communicating With Teachers
This means two-way communication: Let the teacher know early on how they can best support your child's learning (how does your child learn best?) -then ask the teacher periodically, "What's the best thing I can do to help my child with this subject at home?" Don’t wait until parent-teacher conferences to find out how your child is doing, or what kinds of problems need to be corrected.
Over Focusing on Grades and Test Scores
When children get the message that grades are all that counts, they quickly lose interest in the process of discovery and learning, and instead focus only on the outcome. If they can't achieve the expected grade or score, they end up feeling bad which usually does not increase their motivation to do better. Children also need to hear from us that success comes in many forms. Some students will excel in sports, drama, music, or art; some develop excellent leadership skills, good citizenship, become peer mediators, or relate well to animals. Whatever your child's strengths are, be sure you focus on those talents more than you focus on their grades.
Sticking Only to the Curriculum
As long as children learn what's expected of them in school, that's good enough, right? Chances are that this year's school curriculum doesn't exactly match his or her own interests and curiosity (maybe they are into whales and sharks, space travel, jungle life, airplanes, etc). Encourage children's natural love for learning by asking, "If you could learn about anything you wanted to, what would you like to learn?" - then provide them with books, videos, trips to museums, and (most importantly) adult conversations about those topics.
Not Modeling Life-Long Learning
Do your children see you interested and enthusiastic about learning, studying, and achieving? Do you read books at home? Go to museums? Look things up? Talk about new ideas? Remember that our children are always watching what we are doing.
By Karin Suesser, Ph.D
Tuesday, 12 June 2012
HELP YOUR CHILD TO BUILD CONFIDENCE
Family psychologist Larne Wellington offers these tips for parents to help build self-esteem in their kids.
1. Give your child lots of opportunities to practice and master new skills so when they are faced with challenges, they recall their successes in other areas.
2. Let kids make mistakes and encourage them so they try again next time.
3. Be enthusiastic if your child is showing you a new skill.
4. Help your child identify their unique qualities and strengths.
5. Convey a message that you believe they can achieve success if they persist.
6. Kids tend to live up to the expectations we set for them.
7. Spend time with them every day so they feel appreciated and loved.
8. Give them your undivided attention, even for 10 minutes a day.
9. Be a positive role model. If you have confidence, it will rub off on your child.
10. Praise your child’s efforts, not just the result. They need to know they are loved and accepted, whether they succeed or fail.
11. Have clear rules about when your child can perform certain activities, such as walking to school by themselves. They’re likely to feel confident because they will be comfortable with what they can do at that age.
THING OUT OF THE BOX (13 JUNE 2012)
Look at the 9 dots in this image. Can you draw 4 straight lines, without picking up your pen, that go through all 9 dots?
FATHER’S DAY SPECIAL ACTIVITIES (10 JUNE 2012)
We just completed our father’s day special activities.
Proud to say, all our students did very well.
They are very creative and they put all their efforts to make something special for their father.
During the contest, all children tried their best to make a very special card for their father.
Hanan, Janice, Kingsley, Jia Yun, Fazleezan, Vino, Iezul, Yi Fann, Yi enn, Qi Wei, Lucas and Pricella, you all did a very good job!!!
Our parents are very supportive as well.
Thanks for giving us and your kids such a good support.
