It is now the year-end school holidays in Malaysia and I wanted to do some activities that are out of routine with my students.
Their mum always requests me to give them some homework to do before I come for the following class. However yesterday I felt homework are just too boring during the holidays so I thought maybe we can have a mini book club by sharing about the books they read.
I am tutoring 3 students here of different ages so their mum asked thst each child picks a book of different language. This is also to encourage them to pick up reading again as a leisure activity.
So the eldest daughter chose a Mandarin Chinese book, the second son chose a Malay book while the 3rd child chose an English book.
Surprisingly, they were quite enthusiastic about it. I was excited to see them going for it. The first "presenter" was the 2nd child. He went ahead telling me what he guessed from reading the book Beware, tortoise! as he is not too well verse with Malay. He managed to guess the storyline about 80% accurate. That was very good, to me! I thanked him for his joyful learning attitude to learn a language that may seem foreign to him.
Subsequently, it was the 3rd child's time to share. She took out a pink book titled Beautiful Ballerinas and she read almost the whole book by herself. She is only 6 years old so for her to be able to read it all by herself without much help from me, that was awesome! I applauded her. I asked her why she picked this book. She said it was because the story is short and it has lesser words. Hahahah so much for her honesty, I like!
Lastly it was the eldest child's turn. She picked the book with the most words and it was about PROCRASTINATION. This book has many stories on procrastination and to teach us why we should not procrastinate. She took effort to tell the whole story and it was quite entertaining. She read it in Mandarin but she told the whole story in English so her siblings could understand too as English is their primary language at home.
We spent about 30 minutes on our "book club" and it was actually not bad. I think we will do it again, don't you think so? Then we went ahead with their lesson today which was to draw comics of a storyline they imagine and write a story about it. Will look forward to read their stories this Friday.
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