Keeping Kids Creative

Dear Readers,

We have all heard the buzzwords of the knowledge-based economy - creative, innovative, resourceful.We are told that our students will need these abilities, not just facts and figures, to thrive in the workplace of the future. And we,their teachers, need to equip them through creative teaching. Hence, here I try to unravel the nuts and bolts behind these ideas, to find out what creative teaching is all about and how it can be implemented in the classroom.

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Sunday, April 24, 2011

Flip-Flap on Shorty


This final project before I leave the school was done by my year 6Nilam students.I still remember ,they managed to complete everything  in May 2010.Very happy that, even before I left the school, the CCL activities and projects were carried out as usual.
As for Flip-Flap On Shorty, I prepared manila cards for them.Cut into 4 big,long stripes then folded into 6 panels.I purposely named this project as Flip-Flap On Shorty as they used Shorty, the literature book for year 6 so if you readers out there want to use another book, please feel free to change the name of your project.
They can use both sides of the panels to draw the pictures in the books and they have to write or type interesting parts of the story which really captured their intention in continuing reading the book.


 Interesting or important dialogues are a must in this project so as to make sure that they know the strength of the story.They just need to copy the paragraphs or dialogues, the beutifying part is of course A BONUS !

By choosing the two main characters in the story and the dialogues above showed that the students understood what I want them to learn through reading this book.Reading and copying the paragraphs and dialogues help them to write better in their exam.(Using correct punctuation is vital here)

                                           
On the first panel,they wrote the title, author and the illustrator of the book read.Then ,they continued with the illustration and dialogues from the first chapter.


These are the final products of Flip Flap On Shorty.


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