Monday at Balara

We went back to Balara last Monday.  I arrived a little late and when I went to get my students, the teacher said that they had been waiting for me.  We went down together and I saw that both of them had grown close and that they were already comfortable talking with me.  

We started out with some games first and did some drawings.  One of my classmates, Carlo, accompanied me because both his students were absent.  The first part was fun and lively, we sang together, drew together and laughed together.  Then we went to the lesson proper; Carlo and I took turns teaching them both.  

At first they were very attentive but during the latter part of the lesson, they were no longer listening and just wanted to play.  Jericho, though, still focused somehow on the lessons while Daniel really wanted it to end already.  I realized then that I really need to make my lessons more interactive so that they won't get bored easily.  Also, during the last part of the lesson, I realized that they were already able to read and write though not that good yet.  Their skills have improved from the first time that we met.  

It was the most tiring tutorial I had so far but I still enjoyed it.  I was glad that they already went out of their shells and were getting better in reading and in writing but we still have to work on their attention span.

Back to Balara

 David Bryan Lao

         Last Monday, we went back to Balara.  I went to fetch my students but only one was present because the other one had an incident last week.  The teacher told me that he puked blood last week and was not able to attend classes since then.  I hope he's okay.

         I started out the session with Daniel, my other student.  He was smiling the moment we started the lesson.  I could see that he was excited.  Like last week, we spent the first few moments playing paper games which we both enjoyed.  After that, we started the session proper.

         Daniel learned the lessons quickly but he still had trouble reading.  He just memorized the forms of the words when he paired the pictures and the phrases.  He was well acquainted with the pictures and the sound of the letter "k" but he still could not read that well.  I think I should focus on this next meeting.

       Overall, the session was okay although he was kind of bored during the middle part.  But he became lively during the last part when we played the jumping-on-paper letter game.  I look forward to seeing him next Monday and I hope Jericho would be there with us too.