Reflection on Final Lesson - Edison

Today's lesson was the concluding lesson for our project and we wanted to make it a success for the children. It was indeed a success in that the children had fun. Although the materials were lacking, we managed to improvise on the spot and link all the joints together to create a very long caterpillar instead of small individual ones. The K1 class was indeed very excited to see the caterpillar and were very happy to know that each of them had made part of the caterpillar.

Also, our class managed to tie in the lesson to recycling at the end, when our group (me, Benjamin and Timothy) related the toilet rolls back to recycling, albeit the language being a little crude. Overall, the lesson was alright, although there were a few problems such as the children not knowing how to use the glue or tear the magazines into smaller pieces. However, with our help, they managed just fine and eventually each had two small joints of their own design. The group members then helped string all of these joints together to create the final product, a long caterpillar, which the children were all very excited about.

What's left now is to prepare for the showcase on Sunday, where parents as well as some members of the government body in charge of this kindergarten will be present. The products from our lesson will be on showcase and we will present some small gifts to the teachers.

Reflection on Lesson

The lesson was quite eventful and could be said to be one of our better, if not best, lessons, up till now. For a start, all the materials were brought thanks to Timothy, although they were not very well prepared and we could work on this by not pushing all the work to one member. Fortunately, we arrived early and hence had the time to prepare our materials right before the lesson started. Of course, when we were asked to do a dry run of the reading of the book, we realised that we should have practiced running through the book a few times before the lesson. Despite that, the storytelling still went quite well.

The lesson itself was quite smooth, and we were able to engage the kids in drawing their butterflies and they were also very interested judging from their more enthusiastic reactions than previous lessons. However, our lessons seem to have lost the original purpose of informing the kids about recycling through art. They seem to have totally forgotten what recycling is. For this, we have to work harder to improve on our next lesson such that they can see for themselves distinctly how recycled materials can be made into something aesthetically appealing too.

All in all, we have improved in terms of general quality of our lesson as well as preparation but can still be improved. We do have to focus more on recycling instead of the art itself.

Edison

RE reflection

Hey guys, i got around 10 minutes on the computer so imma make this quick.
Today's RE period of 100 minutes, was mostly used to create our final sample product for the final lesson we are doing with Little Wings the following week.

Here are some photos to detail the RE period.







I felt that today was rather productive, because we managed to complete the 'prototype' and plan out the future of the project and stuff.
We could have done better if we managed to think of the send off gift for the kids, and if we could decide whether if we wanted to do the final exhbition in september and stuff.
Also, we had alot of joking done in the room, and certain videos was taken that can be used to blackmail brent. hohoho

Yishu

Reflection on RE Period

Today's RE period was one of the most productive ones we had so far, as we were able to accomplish quite a lot and produce a sample product for the next lesson from scratch, despite being 1 member down. Also, we managed to plan out a schedule for most of the other things that have to be completed for our project, such as the article and oral presentation slides. I feel that instead of splitting up work to do individually, next time we should meet up whenever we need to assemble a product, such as a sample for the next lesson, and do it together. Assembling the product together not only promotes team unity, but makes it much easier to do.

Benjamin

Reflection on Re period -- Timothy

Today's RE period can be considered quite productive. We were able to stay on task during this period despite the fact that Ms Aileen was not around to facilitate discussion during this RE period. We were also able to try making our sample together as a team so that we share a common understanding about the problems and flaws in our current art sample. Furthermore, we were able to distribute our work evenly among the group members and I feel like we are making some progress.

5th Lesson- Butterfly Mobile

In my opinion this lesson was conducted much more smoothly than some of our previous lessons. The majority of our materials-barring that of last minute additions- were prepared well beforehand. Also we had sufficient materials for each child to complete their own piece of work this time.

However I feel that there are still certain areas we should improve on. Firstly I feel that we should be more united as a team and help each other with their parts of work instead of just setting one whole set of work to one person while the others remain detached from it. I feel that this will be a crucial area in helping us produce a more cohesive effort and greater enhance the quality of work produced.

Secondly, I also feel that we should remember that one focus of our lessons should be on recycling and not just on artwork comprised of many random things. I feel that our lesson products are drifting further away from recycled materials and we ourselves are also taking less pains to remind the children of the link between the product and the recycled materials it was made from.

All in all, I feel that although we have improved from where we stood last time, we still have a way to go before reaching a satisfactory level of quality. However I believe that we can certainly reach it if we set our minds to it.

Brent

19 July lesson

I thought today was a great lesson hehe. However, the success of this lesson was more due to the appeal of the product itself, rather than the process. I felt that our material preparation was still lacklustre today because we didn't anticipate possible problems that could happen during the lesson. Today's lesson proved that we should prepare way in advance to succeed even better. Although easier said than done, we should be more prepared for lessons in the future.

Today, we went to little wings by taxi, and reached early, luckily. This gave us time to touch up on our materials, and fix any loopholes that our materials had. The children were wonderfully obedient today, with neither of the notorious twins (Syafiq and Adi), causing a ruckus for us today. All of them did their work, and followed my instructions. (Brent and I conducted the lesson from different sides of the classroom).

I have taken some photos of the lesson today, but I will upload them another day.

tl;dr
1. Prepare better for the FINAL LESSON (FOLLOWING WEEK)
2. Anticipate possible problems during lesson.
3. Be more active with the children, be less passive.
4. Document the whole lesson (problem cos we lack the manpower)
5. Convey the recycling message more efficiently.

K I have to prepare for maths test tmr.
Yishu

P.S. tl;dr implies that what i summarised below tl;dr was mentioned in the reflection above. This is not the case. My bad