Day 4 - 9 : Night Teachings

During the planning for Project L.O.V.E, we did put emphasis on teaching as we knew that increasing the child's knowledge will benefit in the long run.

We developed 3 sets of topics: Colours & Fruits, Numbers & Animals and Our Body. The basic guidelines of conducting lessons and the materials were been preparing by the teaching dept to serve as a base for the groups to start off. The whole team is spilt into 3 groups to handle the 3 topics.

After the exam and before the trip, all of us practised the flow of our teachings many many many times! This was done so to get all the 'teachers' familarised with the flow of how they going to deliver the lessons. I guess we did... close to 15 rehearsals?

Colours & Fruits: Swee Leong (IC), Kee Kiat, Kok Hou, Sherri, Veera & Yee Teng

Numbers & Animals: Daryl (IC), Bao Shin, He Shu, Pui Man, Shiyu & Wei Soung

Our Body: Serene (IC), Kelvin, Chung Seng, Kee Jin, Xinxin & Chong Chin

Adrian & Boon Yen will be helping to coordinate and help-out.

The teaching lessons are done every night. Each night, 2 topics will be presented to the local children. The Homestay dining area will be transformed into a temporary classroom for the 5 nights. In this rotation system, 1 group would be free for the day and shall devote their help to students; if they encountered any problems since there might be 40+ of them.

Day 4: Numbers & Animals and Our Body

Day 5: Our Body and Colours & Fruits

Day 6: Colours & Fruits and Number & Animals

Day 7: Revision

In each topic, we incorporated simple words teaching, a small exercise and a song & dance. All the topics had teaching aids in order to faciliate the lesson more efficently. Add on, Colours & Fruits had a stack of small colour papers while Our Body had handouts for the students to refer to. The kids enjoyed the Animals song the most - 'Old Macdonald has a farm' and they even sang the Khmer version for us.

As none of us could speak Khmer (Cambodian Language), we managed to get a translator to translate what we wanted to convey to the class, phrase by phrase - sentence by sentence. We ourselves had learnt the very basic Khmer Language taught by Prof Chui & Prof Edmund:

1) Numbers from 1 to 20 eg. one is muŏy
2) Hello - chumree-uhp soo-uh
3) Goodbye - chumree-uhp lee-uh
4) Thanks - Aw kun
5) Water - teuk

&& more... http://www.bongthom.com/akonline/SelectChapterEK.asp to learn Khmer Language

In the 5 days of teaching, we can really feel the strong desire of the local children to learn. From the translator, 20% of the children and teenagers who came might not have any chance to receive education given their poor family background. To them, learning english (a foreign language) is impossible. And here we were...realising their dreams and hoped that one day they do have the chance to get educate.

Let's us show you what we did:

Lesson Time!Let's show them how Singapore like?
Proper lesson begin! 1st lesson is on 'My Body Parts'
Explaining...
Pre-lesson discussion to improve coordination between 'teachers'
Let's sing 'My Body Parts'!
"Head-Shoulder-Knee and Toes..."
If you can't see the teachers, see the other NTU students too...
Point to your eyes....
My Body Parts Game
- Placing the card on the right body parts -
Let's help out!
Numbers & Animals Lesson
Come on! Stand up and dance!
Colours Lesson
Demostration of colour mixing
Show us your colour cards when any colour is being mentioned!
Sing-a-long time!
Translating...our lesson content sentence by sentence
volunteers' turn to show us what you have learnt
Can you get the colour right?
The teaching location is not brightly lit so Bao Shin got to shine his bright torchlight at the teaching materials
Listening attentively!
Show time!
Giving out balloon sculptures as rewards...
Pics with our 'students'
teaching her how to mix
Learning the translation of fruits
Show us the colours of Durian - They are Green & Yellow!
Sing the Colour Song with us!
The Prepared Primary Colours before the Colour Mixing Magic
Distributing colour cards
Volunteers, pls!
Let's sing Old Macdonald Has a Farm with me!
With Action!
Good Job! Let's do again!
Even translator is learning from the 'teachers'
Show the picture of the pig, "Oink!"
Let's sing again with actions!

Say after me: "Red!"

Sherri