I showed them pictures of the UUM, Japanese food and pictures I took in the Trick Art Museum in iCity (thanks Angeline!). I was surprised some of my kids know UUM and even clarify with me whether UUM is in Sintok instead of ChowKit! But the rest are most amazed by the Japanese food I showed them and most expressed that they have never had Japanese food before.
*Mental note: My kids like to pore over teachers' private photos!*
So the delivery is pretty simple:
- Let students understand the objective of the day: they need to write about the teacher's holiday and they need to share about their holiday
- Show pictures and share about the events that lead to the picture
- Get students to share in class according to the demonstration given by the teacher (do not pick students immediately for speaking assignments, using think, pair, share will lessen the stress)
- Hand out worksheet for students to write about their holiday (draw a picture and write few sentences about the picture)
- Hand out worksheet for students to write about the teacher's holiday
Yesterday was such an amazing day because even in the class that I face most resistance in seems to be in a pretty good mood (probably from the one week holiday) and participated respctfully in classroom activities. They did not even complain when they were cold-called to share in front of the class. Everyone tried their best to write good sentences in this particular class according to the sentence structure I emphasized in the class as well as the tenses used. I CFU extensively and most of the kids knew exactly where they were and were willing to help their friends who were not on task.
I can't wait to read their worksheet tomorrow morning!
*Happy teacher dance*
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