2014年4月26日 星期六

Yu Tim Primary School : Love and Give -


25 April 2014


來自英國的飛機司訓練教師Chris ,和Kan, Tommy 一齊來到豫添小學。Chris 用海報講解在駕駛倉內開飛機的工作。Tommy 送了他小學時讀過的英文書,鼓勵同學多讀好書,學好英文。同學問了很有意思的問題:飛機司要帶槍嗎?







I want to be a pilot! 


Me too! 


We want to be pilots!


We all want to be pilots! 



Tommy, my classmate's son, came to Yu Tim to give his English books to us. Coming with him were his mum, Kan, and Chris, a veteran pilot and current pilot trainer. Chris brought along posters of the plane and explained to students the job of a pilot inside the cockpit. They spoke English and I did the translation into Putonhua - first time in my life. 



10 April 2014 
A student who has been undergoing chemotherapy wrote to schoolmates and teachers. He missed school so much. 


學生代表朗讀患病同學給老師和同學的信。

每班派代表把收集到的捐款放進捐款箱。



1 April 2014 
Our first Picture Book 













Two of my dearest professional friends, Yvonne and Sonna, came to Yu Tim to give their love. Sonna brought teaching aids and little funny toys. Yvonne taught one grammar lesson and helped with my reading demo lesson. The book I used this time was a story instead of content reading, 'THE VERY BIG POTATO', from EVERYDAY READ BOX (Yellow), SCHOLASTIC. With a big potato we bought from the market near Zhang Mu Tou railway station, students figured out what the 'eye' of a potato meant. Then I guided the students to read the grouped vocabulary in the worksheet using the visualiser. I told the story using the pictures in the book page by page. In the process, I asked questions to stimulate students to make associations, predict, and then affirm or negate their predictions. The process was to demonstrate how to interact with text and pictures, thinking aloud.

After the presentation, I put the students into two groups. Yvonne and Ms Chen led one group, while Mr. Leung and I led another. In the groups, we read the story line by line and acted out the story.

The story was a typical children story with repetitive episodes, familiar characters like dog, cat, mouse, and all sorts of funny sounds like 'grunted', 'groaned', 'moaned', growled', 'meowed'..... It can certainly be made into a very good drama with lots of actions. What I like the story most is the value it instils- care, growth, collaboration, and sharing.


We got a white board, finally. It took me three weeks to make staff understand what I mobile white board was. Finally, Principal Li worked it out,"Oh, I know. We got one in our church!" That settled it. 

Yvonne teaching the difference between present simple and past tense, using the material from the PEP book or primary 6 


Sonna will give her three cute puppies as gifts for the three primary 1 students who 'taught' Yvonne sing in the music lesson. 


Yvonne fills the last three missing letters of the word 'Patience' of the Fruit of the Spirit under the beautiful oak tree




20 March 2014
Curriculum Development and Teacher Training Journal
The first tryout with www.englishcentral.com with the Primary 6 students was encouraging. Two video lessons were used: "Birthday and Weather", and "How is the weather today". The former was easier and the latter recycled some of the core vocabulary and sentence patterns. Since the network and the computers in the computer room were not functioning, I could only teach in their home room where the internet service was much more stable. But there was problem with exercise three - the speaking and the quiz. Therefore, the most important part of self-access learning was not demonstrated in the lesson. 




The second demo lesson was conducted on 10 Primary 6 students during the "Reading Lesson" in the Multi-media Learning Center on Thursday morning from 8:10 to 8:50 before breakfast. I used a book "A Circle in the Sky" from the Yellow 'Everyday Read Box' of Scholastic. Several skills were demonstrated: asking predicting questions using the book cover, making association between pictures and text, word grouping and sentence pattern identification, and entering the Reading Log.  After the demonstration, there was 10 minutes left. Students were instructed to choose books they wanted to read. All the books were put on two rows of desks. Students could see the covers of each book. 


Four teachers came to observe the lesson. The English group leader said, "Now I understand what the lesson is about. Last time I found letting students read new to me, but this time I really saw how reading was taught. we do not need to teach so much grammar actually. Students can see the sentence patterns from the book, e.g. I will use a triangle to make a window.... the 'will use' is repeated regularly and students can pick it up." 
"Also the word grouping. The words are grouped into nouns, adjectives, verbs. Students can make sentences freely using the vocabulary." Ms Chen is a teacher with 10 years' experience and she was able to read the lesson more than the other young teachers. 


11 Mar 2014


Amazing! Encouraging! Exciting! 


東莞市圖書館李東來館長,常平鎮圖書館顧長軍館長,前遼寧省圖書館長兼政委書記王孝龍,添成集團主席兼豫添小學董事長黃乃奕來學校參觀指導並協助圖書管理。




谢谢网友 JOYCE, CU校友陈凯明, 得闻豫添小学的学生是农民工子女, 热心捐款购書。

豫添小学成为閱读学校的❤️传开了!!!


Book shelves at Standfordhouse Book Store, at 611 Citimark, Shatin.
I like the way the books are displayed. We shall adopt this for our library.


20 Dec 2013

At this time of the year
when you are cleaning up, preparing for the Chinese New Year, 
you may have to dispose of used stuff, such as story books for your children when they were young. 


Instead of dumping them at a garbage collection centre, or selling them for a few dollars, you may find them a new home - Yu Tim Primary School at an industrial area at Chang Peng. 


Here are 1100 children of immigrant workers from other provinces. 


The school is moving forward, striving its best to provide quality education. 

The school sponsoring body and the school principal are Christian leaders and they are trying to teach  the children to become trees of life - bearing the fruit of the Holy Spirit. 


Your love and kindness and your books will bear fruit in the life of the children, who will bring their learning experiences to their homeland one day. 

Please bring your books and drop them into the collection box at i-learner Education Centre at 2/F, Ritz Plaza, 122 Austin Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon. 

For enquiries, please call 31138815. 

Hong Kong Reads Literacy Society 







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