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Kindy games May 14, 2008
A good collection of educational games suitable for the kindergarten kids! Please click here.
Kindy songs May 14, 2008
Hello teachers! A good collection of songs for the kindergarten kids! Please click here.
ISB May 14, 2008
Please visit http://www.isb.edu.bn/ where under ‘Students’ section, you will find various of students’ work. I hope this will give you a rough idea to have your own web page created for the pupils. Have a try…
Science virtual experiments May 14, 2008
Virtual experiments for Science? What is virtual experiments? What are the pros and cons? Let’s have a read by clicking the PDF file here. Please have your say, thank you!
Writing and drawing May 14, 2008
Writing is often used as a means of evaluating pupils’ understanding of a certain topic but it is also a powerful tool for engaging pupils in the act of learning itself. Writing allows pupils to organize their thoughts and provides a means by which pupils can form and extend their thinking, thus deepening understanding. Storywritting may assess spelling, vocabulary usage and the ability of describing a character. Other Writing activities can include freewriting (writing without editing what comes to mind), narrative writing (drawing on personal experience), response writing (writing thoughts on a specific issue) or loop writing (writing on one idea from different perspectives).
However, getting pupils to use their imaginations when writing can sometimes be difficult. Drawing, however, can create a bridge between the ideas in a pupil’s head and the blank piece of paper on the desk. The pupils can draw pictures and write about it (for examples, ‘the property of a triangle’ or ‘our teeth’), draw and finish incomplete pictures/diagram (for examples, ‘line of symmetry’ or ‘life cycle’) or draw and label (for examples, ‘a clock’ or ‘a flower’).
Portfolios May 14, 2008
Portfolios can be accessed and read by anyone. Thus, this motivates them to produce high-quality work and lets them compare their work with that of pupils from other classes or schools. In the portfolio, the pupils may include:
- Work samples or other worksheet type activities that reflect learning in the classroom.
- The list of their vocabulary that they know (traditionally known also as word bank).
- Photos of things pupils have made or activities they are involved in inside the class or outside class with a written description to accompany it.
- Write about special experience of what they did with the teacher.
Example for Science, under the topic living and non living things, the pupils may collect different things and categorize them under non living or living things. Choose their own special paintings and ask them to describe why they chose it. Videos that they made by themselves related to their subjects. Audio recordings of educational songs (maybe they made their own song lyrics). Share to the class the links to useful website that they surfed.
Another example is practising healthy habits. Ask the pupils to keep log of their daily cleaning for examples; how many times they brush their teeth, take shower, wash hands and so on and provide with a little description.
What about your opinions? I would appreciate if you want to share. Have a good day!
