Every holiday, there would be a series of enrichment activities lined up by Fei Yue Student Care Centre (Choa Chu Kang) to ensure that the kids enjoy and learn at the same time.
For the June holiday in 2016, other than the movie screening of Charlotte Web, we have worked with the teachers in the Student Centre to come up with simple crossword puzzle and practice questions (mainly on the subject - Mathematics and Science) for the kids.
Seemingly simple, since we only need to adapt a few examples from online resources, but there are certain points that we need to take into considerations too. For instance, with the varying age group of kids in the centre, we need to have a few set of crossword puzzle that varied in its difficulties. Besides, we also need to search for practice questions that are relevant to the syllabus that were taught in school. Most importantly, we need to ensure that crossword puzzle and practice questions we adapted were not in the infringement of copyright issues, even though they are only for internal use.
From this involvement, I truly understand that behind every activity developed for the kids, great efforts have been extended by the teachers. With only about two to three teachers in the centre, it is definitely not an easy job for them to oversee all the kids and ensure that their well-being are all taken care of. This especially true when some kids have got special learning needs and the teacher need to adopt another teaching method or prepare another set of learning materials. One must be really dedicate and possess high level of patience to be a teacher.
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