Second Issue of Quest! Magazine

This year, I had set up the new editorial team among year 5 students. They were chosen based on certain criteria that I had outlined. Some of them were my students in Year 4 last year, so I know their ability very well. Then I gave them an opportunity to choose their own team that they think were capable of working with them. 

As last year only one issue of Quest! Magazine was published due to my other workloads constraints, this year I really want to make sure that new issues will be released each month. And this time, all things must be done by the students themselves. I will only be the supervisor.

This is their first time working as a team and first time working in an editorial team, so sometimes I need to repeat certain instructions, keep reminding about the dateline, re-explaining the same things over and over again...I really don't mind doing that. This is the process of learning. It is normal for kids. You need to keep on repeating the same things over and over again so that they will have a clear picture of what they are supposed to do.

One of the thing that made my day was when our team interviewed Puan Goon about CNY. There were a reporter, camerawomen and a photographer on duty. I just stood back and watched these kids in action. They were so good that I did not even need to interrupt the interview session what so ever. After the session, they were so happy and excited, and could not wait for the next project. I could see the shines in their eyes.

In the end, I was really quite surprised to see their ability to complete the task given. They were able to come out with their own article, interesting info, writing dedication forms, finding suitable word search for the monthly contest, etc.

Though some sections were unable to be completed. So I went for plan B in order to cope with the final deadline. Well, we should not be too rigid especially when dealing with the children.

I
 could see them happy when the magazines were ready to be stapled. After stapling about 400 copies of magazines, they opened a sales counter and kept on promoting to the students and other teachers. At the end of the day, we managed to get about RM120 for the sales. About half of the copies were sold. We planned to continue selling after CNY. This will be a kickstart for a more exciting year for Quest! Magazine editorial team. InsyaAllah...

Classroom Project 1

Last Tuesday (3rd Feb. 2015) - which was Thaipusam public holiday - my students and I decided to be in school for our very first communal work. The work involved lots of cutting and pasting. As the theme is outer space, I had decided to do a solar system featured wall. We had pasted a row of glitters coated foams, in order to form a sets of planets. It was a quite simple and easy task as the students need to cut the foams into circles of varied sizes..

The kids started working after the briefing session

Cutting and pasting

The kids are alligning the planets into position

Preparing planet earth

Our information board - still empty but it will be filled up soon

Our back side wall - before

Our behind wall - after (just ignore the messed up chairs and desks)

Wordings on our left side wall. Still working on it.

Interior view of our main entrance. I was lucky enough to get the outerspace themed flashcards from Mydin.

Overall, I am satisfied with the work done for this time. Good jobs kid. This would be our very first decoration project. First phase done, five to go. I am expecting to get all the job done by March so that we can focus on other things. Lucky me that I have a bunch of cooperative students and supportive parents that will make all things happened. 

New Project 2015

Hello 2015!

New year, new resolution, new spirit. Alhamdulillah. Lucky me as I got less job scope which means less responsibilities for this year. I am appointed as the class teacher for 5 Dinamik, coordinator for English Language Room (or SAL Room), Head of Lekir House, trainer for school's athletic elite team, school's Red Crescent advisor and coordinator for KSSR Year 5 English.

For the classroom, insyaAllah, I am planning to do the spaceship theme for my year 5 Dinamik. As I am sharing the class with Cikgu Bakri, it would be much suitable to do this theme rather than flowery or fairy tales theme. Still, we have not discussed yet but I think he will just go with the flow. =)

To do a thematic classroom requires some research and detailed thinking as you need to ensure that everything are in line with the theme chosen. Everything should be well synchronised. That is why I spent almost one week going through the internet to look for some ideas and gathered some decoration stuffs.

At this point, I have just finished creating the logo and preparing the decoration stuffs. I am really excited to run this project. May Allah ease everything that I am doing.

This would be the logo for the class.