Reading 9 : Months of the Year (Song) - Year 1

Hello there!

After the final exam, I realised that I faced a major problem in dealing with my pupils' weaknesses regarding spelling of the months of the year in English. I tried drilling, memorising and spelling test, none of it works well especially for the weaker pupils. So, I decided to come up with a song, which eventually matched with their styles of learning.

This lesson was conducted at the end of the year after the exam since we got plenty of time to waste. Hahaha. First, I distributed the lyrics and we read it together to ensure they got correct pronunciation. This drilling sessions went on and on for two days, without music, just plain reading on the first day, and slowly introduced them with the melody on the second day. So, on the third day, I brought my guitar and we started sing to the song with the melodies learnt.

I started sing with them line by line and repeat with verse by verse. After they managed to do it well, I continued with singing the entire song. The lyric is provided down here. 

Now, let's take a look at the video below :

P/s : You can check out for more post-exam activities in our school's HIP Page. Thanks for reading! :)

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LA 20 : Mini Story Book

Hello there! So, to deal with post exam activities, I have prepared few activities that test their imagination and knowledge and this is one of them. Exposing them to few content from the Year 4 text book just to fill the remaining days before the holidays. We made a simple magic book, which is as follow (check the tutorial on how to make this book HERE) :

I only asked them to bring scissors and colour pencils, while I provided them with a white A4 paper each. Then, I taught them on how to make the mini book step by step. Seems like they had fun while doing this activity! I explained the content of each paragraph so that they can imagining on how to illustrate their mini story books. The text is taken from Year 4 textbook :

For your information, I did not prepare any sample in this activity as I just don't have the time to do something handwritten and decorative at the moment. Thank God they loved to do it on their own. These are their reactions while doing this activity. Some of them did pretty well and of course, they got variety of imaginations which can be seen in their drawings. :)

Overall, all of them did very well and illustrated it in a great way. Well, I got these two which I believed the best ones among all. Surprisingly, these two are boys' works. Congrats guys!

 P/s : As a post exam activity, this is one of the best for the pupils to reduce their boredom at school. Anyway, thanks for reading!

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Education.com : Write a Silly Dinosaur Poem (Grammar)

Hello there! Its another new post but this time, its a very special one. I've got an email from Education.com who would like to collaborate their content as a guest in my blog. So, its kind of surprising for me, but yes, I've accepted it. So, here we are! (I made slight changes on the activities to suit the students' need here.) You can refer the original post from them on the link provided below :

THE ORIGINAL POST FROM EDUCATION.COM

credit to Education.com

The photo displayed above showed on the outcomes of this activity which being given from Education.com. Since my students still have limited knowledge in terms of vocabulary, I will ask them to draw their version of dinosaur first using their own imagination. This is because we have limited access on the internet and also books as our resources.

WHAT YOU NEED :

• A4 Paper
• Pencil
• Colored pencils

HOW TO DO IT :

1. Give A4 paper and fold it into two to make it in a size of A5. The teacher introduces the activity to make a poem book with a proper sample and explanation. 

2. Then, let the pupils decide which type of dinosaur that they want to be use as the main character. Let them use their imagination in drawing a dinosaur and give the dinosaur a name.

3. Encourage the pupils to decide on a humorous situation for her character. Personifying a dinosaur and having it involved in activities that people usually do can be quite funny. (example : big eyes, small mouth and so on).

4. The teacher showed a sample of her own silly dinosaur on the whiteboard.

5. Create a list of interesting words (adjectives) to use in the poem and ask the pupils to keep track of all the words written on the whiteboard.

6. Now, brainstorm with them and try to find a rhyming twin for several of the vocabulary words based on the sample given by the teacher.

7. Pupils can begin by creating two sentences that introduce the poem. The last word of the second sentence should rhyme with the last word of the first sentence.

8. Continue the rhyming pattern until they have created three pairs of rhyming sentences that describe their funny dinosaur situation.

9. Write the entire poem neatly on a given A4 paper.

10. The pupils can attach the drawing to the poem with a staple or cut out the drawing and glue it to the second page of the poem book. They can also draw the dinosaur on the given A4 paper.

P/s : This activity can be done as a fun activity towards the end of the year. Thanks a lot to Jessica from Education.com for sharing their ideas to be included in my blog. Thanks for reading! :)

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