Creative Lesson Planning at SK Jengka 3 & 4, 10th April, 2014

I have been most impressed with the creative lesson planning and preparation at SK Jengka 3 & 4 recently.  The TELL2 teachers at both schools are really putting a lot of effort into their lesson planning, resource development and materials creation.

Robitha's Year 3

Robitha Bt Yusof, SK Jengka 3, has been using action songs to teach the correct verbs for animal movements in her Year 3 class.  In addition to the action songs, she developed a pair work activity in which students are give either an animal or a movement card and they have to make pairs with the correct animal & movement.  Her activity was fun for the students and an effective method of instruction for her topic.

Sarina's Year 1

Sarina Bt. Ab Hamid, also at SK Jengka 3, has been teaching action verbs in her Year 1 class.   Here you can see her action sorting activity.  First she reviewed the action verbs with flashcards, and then distributed a box full of different action

verbs.  Students had to find the correct word card in the box for the flashcard she pasted on the chalk board.  Students accrued points for each correct answer.

Siti Azura's Year 1

Siti Azura Bt Abu Seman, SK Jengka 3, had a very creative lesson plan for phonics in her Year 1 class.  She introduced the letters O & G, drilled the sound of the letters, introduced the picture cards & word cards and drilled again.  This is a traditional method for phonics, but then she did something very interesting.  She selected a pair of students to come to the front of the board, whispered a phonics target word to student A, who whispered it to student B, who selected the card from the word bank on the board then placed it into the correct O or G category.  Then Siti Azura drilled the Letter-Sound-Word again as a class.  It was a creative and effective game to drill the phonics in a fun way for the students.  As we all know, phonics is difficult to teach and can be tedious, but this activity is an excellent solution.

Mazni's Year 2

Finally, Mazni Bt Daud, SK Jengka 4, has been studying “Delicious Foods” with her Year 2 class.  She began the class by giving a demonstration of the process of making Vanilla Milkshakes with realia she brought from home.  Then she reviewed the actions for cooking & the ingredients with flashcards.  After another class demonstration of the process, she invited a student to demonstrate the process while the class

tell her what to do.  It was fun and the students learned the process to make a vanilla milkshake.  Then Mazni used mini-whiteboards for students to do pair writing work.  She grouped the students then had them write the process together step-by-step.  The students enjoyed using the mini-whiteboards and it was a creative and effective way to make writing exercises interesting for the students.

All four of these teachers have impressed me this week, and I hope to share their activities with the other TELL2 Teachers in the Maran Cluster.

Sarah Higgs, Jempol