The day started off with morning flag raising at the podium area, where all the staff and students queued up orderly for their Monday routine. Their weekly routine starts off with singing of the National Anthem.
The staff and students all queued up for their National Anthem.
The Flag Raising Podium
A live band made up by their uniform group, the Girl Guides (女童軍)
After which, Principal Yang started presenting awards such as the Most Well-Mannered Student Award and the Most Filial Piety Student Award.
During this morning assembly, there was a miniature skit presented by the Drama Club. This is in lieu with the value of the month.
Finally, Principal Yang introduced us to the whole school and Meijuan was given the chance to give a short speech.
After the morning assembly, the three of us followed our individual Cooperating Teachers back to our classrooms.
Here are some photos of my first day of school!
The class I am attached to! (Class 406)
On a side note, my CT hopes that I can start remembering the students' names by Thursday. So, I did a little seating plan, gave out worksheets and chit chat with the students in between lessons.
They are practicing calligraphy!
Today, I managed to sit in for their Arts lessons:
The smart board in the Arts room!
Look at the talented students!
So that concluded my first day of school! Looking forward to tomorrow!
By Sian Yin/玄音
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I was posted to a Primary 5 class (509) under the guidance of Mdm Hsu, a very experienced and patient teacher with more than 10 years of teaching experience. She is very willing to share her experiences with me and even gave me the task of helping her design a powerpoint presentation on Pompeii (The text she is currently teaching), as well as preparing a 5-10 minutes introduction to one of the Chinese classic poetry the students have been memorising during their silent reading by the end of this week.
I'm very glad to be given this opportunity so early into the teaching assistantship, and I hope that I am able to complete the tasks given well.
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students' lunch break in Taiwan is very different from our recess time
or lunch hour in Singapore schools. Almost all the students eat
the nutritious school meal provided. A few students will volunteer to
help carry the food into the classroom, while the rest will wash their
hands and utensil set they have brought from their homes.
Self-service school meal
Taiwanese students are taught to not talk while eating as a form of dining etiquette. This is also to prevent the spreading of viruses among students, making them sick. I was surprised at how disciplined the students were as they queued up neatly to get their food or when getting ready to walk to another venue for lessons, almost like an army of little soldiers!
The concept and habit of recycling has been instilled into the students as young as in primary school. After finishing their meals, they will sort their rubbish into different trash bags for recycling. Each student also has their own set of utensils to cut down on the usage of disposable utensils.
I believe that schools should encourage such practice to cultivate students' habit while they are young. Though it is only the first day of school, they have really impressed me with their disciplined meal routine and awareness for the environment.
What a wonderful start to my teaching assistantship!
By Hui Yan
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I am posted to CLASS 601, with a group of lovely kids! what they impressed me the most was their good habit of reading. Almost every break, students would pick up a book and do their own reading. I could almost see their fascinated faces when they were reading! BOOKWORMS~ <3
課室後面的書架讓我很吃驚，許多書籍是我中學的時候才開始看的。這時，施老師打開上面的抽屜，如同變魔術一般，映入眼前的是擺著更滿更滿的書的書架啊！（改天拍照給大家看）這個班級像是一個小小圖書館！
於是我也開始拿起他們的班書 《第十四道門》，加入他們的閱讀世界啦！
《Coraline》 Neil Gaiman
Got a chance to read their diary, interesting writing by students and interest comments by Shi Lao Shi.
A good starting！ O(∩_∩)O
By Meijuan
Thanks ladies for the photos. They help us to get a better idea as to what school is like over there.
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