Day 7

Picture of leaf which i had picked out

I went to Primary 4 Science class today. The teacher was teaching that differnt plants have differnt kinds of leaves. The teacher instructed the pupils to get into groups and go to the science corner and the small garden that they have right beside the canteen. The students were to try to find differnt kinds of leaves and pluck them and collate them as a group.

I believe that bringing the students down to the eco garden was a good idea as students are out of their classrooms which means that they dont have a mundane feeling and they would feel more interested in gaining knowledge as they are involved in an activity as they have to pluck out leaves which are different from each other. Above is picture of a leave which i had picked out.

Once back at class, the students presented their findings about how different the leaves were. And the teacher corrected them with regards to their findings and the children were able to use terms such a wavy, heart shaped to describe what they had found.

After that was Primary two English class where the teacher gave them work from he workbook to do and she assisted a few weaker pupils. I did my part by going around helping weaker pupils as well. But as i did that, i realised that many students were not even trying and tried to get me to notice them so that i can help them. Once i realised that, i stopped walking and announced that i was not going to help unless each one of them had tried finish and still could not do the work.