SIXTH WEEK OF TP-15/09/08

I am using real money as my teaching materials
I am helping the students to do their classwork in Primary 2A

Salam and Hello,

today is my sixth week of teaching practice and I am still teaching money to the students. From my teaching, there are many slow learners in Primary 2A about more than 50%. It took me more than half an hour just to make them understand. That is why most of them, couldn't finish the work given on time. I am trying my best to manage my time, even in my lesson plan, I did manage the time for each stages. BUT the difficulty is when you are handling a hard situation where there ara many slow learners than the fast learners. I could say there are only about 3 pupils categorised as fast learners in Primary 2A. I have to explain to them in slow pace in order to make them understand and keep focusing.

I am using the real coins just to show the diffence between one cent and five cents

Diiferent case in Primary 2C because there are many fast rners than slow learners and some of them are also categorized as average learner but still, not bad at all. I am enjoying and having fun myself when teaching this class. They respond me faster than as I expected actually. Most of them are very good students. It only took me about 15 minutes to explain to them and then, they will understand the lesson that I taught.They will move on doing their work and what I got from them was really amazing. Means that, they understand what ever I am teaching them. But most of them confuse writing cents. For example, Thirty-two dollars and nine cents. The answer should be $32.09 BUT most of them wrote down $32.9. SO, I have to explain to them, how to write it correctly.

This is one of a fast learner in Prmary 2C, his name is Syazwan.

FIFTH WEEK OF TP-8/9/08

I am showing $1.00 of Amal Zariah's money

Masitah has $0.50 and Amal Zariah has $1.00. So, I asked the stduents what is the total amount of money from both girls.
Hamiz is doing his classwork on matching activity from the workbook page 14.
I am teaching Hairi how to calculate the exercise using the real coins.
Hanis is finishing her work on writing the amount of money in words.

Assalamualaikum and Hello ppl,

today is my fifth week of TP . I am teaching a new topic on MEASUREMENT 2 and the sub-topic is MONEY. Before I start the lesson, I recap the last lesson on FRACTION.For the introduction, I introduced the students with the units of money which are DOLLAR ($) and CENTS. I wrote down the price on the whiteboard and I asked the students to read the price aloud. So far, they can read all the prices well. It was just a problem some of themwhen to use DOLLAR and DOLLARS. After that, I asked the pupils to spell the amount of money in words.

It took me more than 30 mins to explain to the Primary 2A because of there are many slow-learners in the class. They cannot finished allthe classwork given and it will be continue in the next lesson. It is a different case when I teach Primary 2C because they can understand it well and they spell the money in words correctly. Most of the students can finish their work BUT they have problems when they count the coins. To be frank, the workbook is not a good book for this topic. The picyture of the money is not really clear and people are confused with 0ne cent and 5 cents. I try to figure how to make them understand well about this topic.