BACK TO SCHOOL REFLECTIONZ

Hi this is Yishu, transcribing my reflection for the project thus far.

Lately we've got our knickers in a twist, trying to boggle our minds to figure an appropiate way to end off the project. After all the lesson plans and everything, we need to find an appropiate way to finish off the project. We are still thinking about this and we hopefully(?) will come up with something suitable.

Our journey thus far... has been quite eventful. We have surely learned many valuable lessons throughout our journey, and we will learn from these mistakes, and use this to our advantage in crafting our future lesson plans. There were pros and cons to our lessons. Most of the time, we were caught up in preparing the right amount of logistics for the children. There hasn't been a week where we prepared just enough materials for EVERYONE and conducted a perfectly smooth lesson. Of course we're only human (hurhur), and we make mistakes. However, I think that for the next few lessons we should pay more attention to the materials that are needed and ensure there are sufficient materials to run the lesson. During the first lesson, I still remember that we had to make everyone do pair work, leading to huge disappointment on the children's part, as they could not each bring home their artwork to show off to everybody at home. In our lessons, we aim to combine fun, safety, and awareness in our lessons. We need to make it fun for everybody by AT LEAST helping them each make a product for themselves individually.

Of course there were some things that we got right... like our interpersonal relationship with the children, and making the lesson interesting enough to pay attention... and more which I'm sure my teammates can elaborate more on.

I think that we have come quite a long way since our project first started, and have become accustomed to the behavior of the children and teaching them... We have 3 lessons left, and I hope that we can come up with something great for the children, and transcend the lessons into something more than just a compulsory phase of this RE journey, but into something that benefits both parties greatly.

Kthxbye
Yishu