Blogger Notes

This week I expanded my formatting/editing tutorials since last week's was not as expected. For my Year 2 class, I made a simpler tutorial for the pupils to do and for my Year 3 class I prepared a tongue twister passage for them. My main aim here was to attract the pupils' attention with a tutorial which should be fun to do.

My Year 2's lesson plan,

Lesson Plan 06/04/09 (Yr2A)

As for the tutorial, eventhough they were given handouts I repeated to the pupils on what they are supposed to do because some would tend to listen with one ear and out the next straight away. When this happens, they start to call out and ask what they are supposed to do. Time was of essence because the class itself was only for a period. I did not want what happened the previous week to repeat itself whereby the whole did not complete their work.

Tutorial 06/04/09 (Yr2A)

My Year 3 seemed to have fun with the passage because most of them have not been exposed to tongue twisters. Some kept repeating the passage instead of editing so I had to give then a little nudge. In the end, ALL of them finished the tutorial on time. I was very happy because not only were they on time but their work was about 99% correct! Check out the lesson plan which was simplicity itself.

Lesson Plan 06/04/09 (Yr3A)
While going round the class monitoring the pupils do their work I couldn't help but smile when I saw that most of them did collaborative learning. They were actually discussing with each other on how to do their work and there was not much calling out for the teacher!

Tutorial 06/04/09 (Yr3A)