The 1st lesson overview plus... my view...

We had our first RE-SL session with selected students of Yew Tee Primary School. We encountered several difficulties but for our 1st time I feel we did a decent job.

We travelled to Yew Tee Primary School with our teacher mentor Mr Ng Kai Yong, but due to unforeseen events we arrived at 2.20 pm, before our estimated arrival time of 2 pm. We hastily set up the apparutus and fortunately managed to set up before the primary 5s, our first batch of students arrived at 2.30. We got underway.

We introduced ourselves and our motives, namely to give back to society by teaching the primary school children. But just before we began the lesson, the overhead projector failed. Apparantly the AV equipment could not respond to our dismay. After repeatedly trying to get the laptop (Tian Yi's), we called the IT technician there. We got the projector working with the IT technician's help and got started to prevent further time-delaying.

Moving on we taught the Primary 5s about the periodic table and itsbasic concepts, before enticing them with some live chemistry experiments and getting their interest. Rounding of we gave a little quiz to help refresh the information of the Primary 5s. I do feel that we got the very curious Primary 5s interested and that they were very attentive and interested in our presentation. I felt better about this project after the 1-hour session with the primary 5s.

Then Tian Yi started to feel very tired of teaching. He was our main speaker in the session with the primary 5s. Therefore he decided that we speak up a little more. But when the Primary 6s, our second batch of students, came in Tian Yi apparantly forgot his fatigue (mental or physical?) andcarried on with the speaking, although I did the experiments insteadof Tian Yi for the primary 6s. The second session went better than the first, with less distractions.

Overall given that this was our first sessions, and that we did not know the students, we did interact well, more so with the rather enthusiastic primary 5s than the primary 6s.Teaching was definitely a "easier said than done" thing and although we had a few mishaps here and there, we pulled through and I feel this project can be a success.