Thursday, July 5, 2007
A Mad Chase After Homework!!!!!!!
Youth Day celebration school madness!!A MAD CHASE AFTER HOMEWORK!!!!!
Wah! chasing after HW as if it's Great Singapore Sale lidat...it turned out to be a task harder than i imagined...Tat day, after I gave em HW, i told de kids to hand it up to their class chairman, and the class chairman will pass the whole pile to me at 2.15pm. And that day, i actually finished lessons at like 9.15am, which was like so early and can like zuo bo...but cuz i told em to hand it to me at 2.15pm, i had to WAIT and WAIT and WAIT for 2.15pm to come...if not i cld hav left at 1.40pm liao...den after that long long WAIT, when de class chairman came to look for me, guess how many pieces of HW i received??? 5 out of 27 students!!! LOL...so much for de long WAIT...i was at least expecting maybe half to hand in, but 5 is like only about one fifth of de class...LOL...was kinda surprised though i had expected problems wif getting students to submit their work..haiz...
And to complicate matters further, de school had New Zealand students visiting de sch for something like an exchange programme. So to celebrate youth day, de kids were allowed to set up boothes where they cld sell stuff (a smaller scale of NUS bazarres..erm..dunno how to spell lol..), and of course, de New Zealanders had their boothe too. The whole school really came alive with de kids roaming around in excitement. See de pic. Music was blasting and song dedications were read by a student who showed satisfactory emcee potential :).. But the worst thing was tat, right after the allocated time for students to roam around the boothes, I had a maths period wif de kids frm my class...It's like right after having fun at de mini bazarre, who is in de mood to study lor...and i wasnt very surprised when i stepped into class tat abt half of de class disappeared... Band, choir, guzheng, cheerleading (yes, my sch got cheerleading CCA and I hav a male cheerleader in my class..), prefect, AVA members were excused as they had performance, but apart frm tat, got others who seemed MIA too. Wah! lidat is like how to teach??? Wan to chase em for their HW oso so hard, cuz they no mood to tink of work liao lor.. Oso cant do much teaching, their minds will be wandering, so ended up playing de catch phrases game wif em, but apparently it wasnt as well-received as de other class i played wif..haha...to em, it was more lame than brain-boosting lol...but thankfully still shd be able to finish de syllabus on time i hope. Managed to use this time to chat wif a few kids too, to get to noe em better, and I realise tat it's actually de interaction wif de kids which i enjoy more than teaching :)
Yup, but den de HW problem remains unsettled...tmr i'm taking their 2 last periods, so maybe wil do wat their maths tcher usually do, make em stay back n do and can only leave after i see their HW...hehe...wil tink bout it...
5:38 PM
Lyna