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.

Join Me and I will appreciate it very much if you sign in my guestbook and leave your comments.



Thursday, May 5, 2011

A Clearer View Of The Nilam Tree


The flowers with numbers pasted on them.Colourful flourecent stickers
will make your job much easier and the product more enhanced.
 

Now you can see the flowers and the number pasted on each flower.
The number is actually belongs to an individual personnel in my class.
They really take care of their flowers as the flowers and numbers promote
them as active readers. 
 
To answer questions asked and to make the pic clearer, I have cropped and enlarged the original version
of the Nilam tree.
Hope this will help the readers who are interested to share this idea .


The NILAM Trees Project

The NILAM trees project is actually an idea to encourage the reading habits among students.They compete among them fairly and practise the win-win situation in the classroom.

Each student who read 5 books will get a flower and he/she may stick his/her number on the flower. Then the students will have the privilage of choosing where to paste their flowers on the prepared column. May they be on the branches,roots or even scatter on the ground together with the green grass. They make their own choice.


 By the end of the year, the King and Queen Readers will be chosen from the students who read the most. And of course, undeniablly interesting  prizes await.


Care to try ? Your students might like this idea but you readers might have to work extra miles to prepare the column and the flowers, as well as the numbers. Quite hectic and handful but you wont regret doing it, I bet!

Again Get In Tact With The Books

The Literature Books For Year 4

The Characters and Setting Of
Tidy Your Room,Tanya!

The Synopsis of Tidy Your Room,Tanya!

The Synopsis of Mr Stoflees
And The Painted Tiger

Row of Books and
 Line of Reading Cards

The Literature Books

Monday, April 25, 2011

The Main Characters

 The pictures of all the main characters in the story books are scanned, printed and laminated before being pasted onto cut, square ,flouracent cardboards.You can see The Tiger, Mr Stofflees, Tanya, Grand, Mum and the others on the wall of the CCL Room.

 While looking at the characters, surely you can recall their scenes,right? And maybe the dialogues too!



Read, memorize and learn as much as you can...........

Get To Know Your Books

 This gigantic board is actually to introduce a book to the students.What are the important elements which they need to know about a book ,for example :
The Title
The Author
The Publisher
The Illustrator
The Synopsis
( a short account of something longer eg. the story of a film,play,book)
The Blurb
(a short description giving information about a book)

 Let us introduce a book to our students first before asking them to read it. Familarizing them with the books will definately instill the love for reading.

Book Cover Designing Competition

To enhance their love towards books , I encouraged my students to draw or create their own book covers.They played with their imaginations, sometimes just by imitating your actions.And penned it down on the papers.Great imaginations and you will be impressed looking at the end products.
Their young mind work wonders so just try this with your own students. You'll be surprised. I was, indeed!
Give them freedom to choose their own title, name of author, illustrator and let them create their own short stories.......


The prizes offered