August 24, 2018

            Group work is one of the strategies to make the students get involved. It is said that it will help the children learn to socialize and respect one another’s decision.

 

 Today I’ll be teaching the subject Science with the subject matter Water and things that can be mixed and not mixed with it. I recycled four water bottles buy removing its upper part, this will be used for the mixture. Next I looked for an oil, juice, pebbles and salt. Lastly, I fixed my Pocket Chart and printed materials.

 

 

The students enjoyed the experiment we did, but I am really not still prepared, I haven’t thought of other possible factors that might happen. Seems like I haven’t observed enough because I wasn’t able to determine the way they learn. I did not consider the thought that they always use their books when learning and everything is written in their like guide questions and key points. My mistake for today is that, I haven’t thought of writing down guide questions for the students because of my certain expectations that they’ll be able to go with the discussion easily. I remembered that they’re still in Primary 2 and haven’t yet gone out that far. Good thing there are synonyms and antonyms of certain words that helped me simplify things for them.       

 In addition, though group work is a lot of fun when learning but when dealing with young children it is so hard to get their attention once they talk about things, though it is related to the things we are doing at the moment they have made another world for them and don’t listen to their classmates talking in front anymore. So what I did is to ask them questions related to the answers of the students reporting in front and then at least their attention somewhat shifted back to the class.

Video links: 

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1lPxk9uTATYOzp9Vffbp8OVqCE0otsa9U

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1SDcH8LFavp2WjJbQY-Wlbcw7oSMW0wqS

 

Day 21