Reflections

Lucia: So far in the exhibition, my group, teaching English, has accomplished almost everything we need to do.The only thing that remains that we need to organise is actually going and teaching English. At the moment we're creating flash cards to help them learn and soon we're going to downstairs to one of the K3 classrooms to observe one of their lessons, K3s having only just learnt the basics of English. We're quite lucky to have Marissa in our group because she has also only recently learnt English. The first bit of the exhibition was when we started getting into mini groups according to what interests us and start researching that and putting the research on post it notes. Then we had to choose a subject to be our project for the rest of this unit of inquiry.

Emily: During the past week, my group the Teaching English group, have been preparing and practicing our action (teaching English to some underprivileged Chinese children at HKSPC) by testing the flashcards and getting experience in teaching by teaching the K3s and K4s.

This morning we taught K4DL, we taught K3 last week. In the lessons ( because all of the lessons are the same) we make play-dough fruits, quiz them on pictures and show them flashcards. I enjoyed teaching the lesson because they children were cooperative and I thought that getting them all to make one fruit for the playdough activity worked very well and turned out great. I am nervous for when we will teach HKSPC's children because that will be the real thing, what we have been working for. I wish Lucia was here to discover all of the progress Marissa and I made and I hope she will be here on Saturday, which is when we will teach HKSPC.

Marissa:

In HKA grade 5 we are working in a new unit called G5 Exhibition, where the students choose the issue they are interested on and thinking how they are going to make a change ?

In Grade 5 we have a new unit called G5 Exhibition. The G5 students chose an issue that they are interested in focusing on in this two months to make a change and present their goal, mission statement , problem and solution / Action in the G5 Exhibition where basically the whole school are coming to the MPR to look at it. No only one issue, there are 12 groups of a problem and a solution that want to make a change. Also the parents are coming. Each group have a mentor to give us support and ideas.

My Issue is Teaching English to Chinese Children with Emily and Lucia. I chose this issue because people like me that English is the second language is the most necessary language in the world. Is even better to get a job knowing 2 languages. Basically is ' Lingua-Franca '. Lingua Franca is the language that everyone must know, in this case is the English. Imagine that you speak French and you traveled to China, China don't speak French and France don't speak Chinese. So the only language they can use to understand each other is the English, that is the meaning of Lingua Franca. Teaching English to Chinese people won't be easy to communicate because we don't know Chinese and they don't know English so we will communicating with pictures and signs. It would be pretty good to have an opportunity like that. With all this stuff we have done about, making a group , thinking our problem , finding information , interviews with people with that job , action. All that for 2 days of Exhibition.