Can you guess what these are for? I was teaching my P3/4 students fractions last Saturday and it was easier to illustrate how they work if the children can visualise the concepts. You can use materials found in your home for such experiments too! Every week I try to use different games and such tests[…]
Seeing is believing. Revising for SA2 with the P5s. How else to explain electricity than to try it ourselves?
A lot of students are having their oral examinations this week and are terrified because of the new oral format. In the previous oral examinations (that has been almost unchanged since my days!), students have to describe a picture and then would be asked to discuss a topic. It is a bit more of a[…]
Read a piece about photography and it advises one to do this. “Learn all the rules, then break them. As much as I hate rules, they’re there for a reason. The first time I heard about the “Rule of Thirds” my mind was blown. I quickly began rearranging all my images to fit, and I[…]
There was a comic going around recently. The elephant, monkey, penguin and others were told to climb a tree and all had to perform the same task to ensure a fair selection. The cartoon took shots at the examination system- how each individual is geared differently and how it shouldn’t test everyone the same way.[…]
“You are resigning?” a few of my friends who follow this page and some parents of current students messaged me when they saw the status yesterday about full-time classes. Yes, I will be quitting my day job and yes, I am jittery about this. After all, I will be giving up a stable income. It’s[…]
Thanks for all the interest in our classes. We announced yesterday that we will have more classes next year, we will be full time and will continue to impart knowledge through love and fun games. I received a lot of queries about our classes yesterday and this is one of the most frequently asked questions:[…]
It has been a superb year.We devoted our Friday nights and Saturdays to teaching children this year. It was very tiring as we have day jobs but it brought a lot of satisfaction to our lives. Thank you for your support and thank you for believing in us. After much consideration, we have decided we[…]
A parent wanted to chat with me, so I left the classroom for five minutes. As I was returning to the classroom, it looked like the Primary 1 kids were behaving themselves from the glass door. “THA….” Just as I was about to thank them for behaving themselves, chaos erupted. “X said I did this!”[…]
Yesterday, I invited members from Save Our StreetDogs SOSD to give a speech to the Primary 1/2 children. When asked what one should do when his puppy grows up and is no longer adorable, one of my students said he would “let it go” in the forest. The kind volunteer explained to the students why[…]