The Art-venture

It has been a while since I posted on my reflections, and in the past few weeks, I have experienced many different firsts in school - including my first lesson observation, the PSLE marking week, preparing students' artwork for filing into their portfolios, and grading and comments for each student! This week, we busied ourselves with settling the artworks and graded rubrics for filing in. Lesson time was set aside for the lower primary students to do some final touch-ups to their artwork before filing them into their portfolios. These portfolios would be brought back to their parents for viewing so they can better understand their child's learning progress in school. The P1s were challenged to use colored markers to create lines and patterns within the various shapes they had drawn in for the background of their leaf animal - including (but not limited to): clouds, trees, grass, water waves, and other land and sea creatures! It was exciting watching students add colors to ...

This week was passing by really slowly at the beginning but sped up towards our school's celebrations - culminated in the fabulous carnival and performances put up on 3rd Oct! Prior to the start of the week, I was nervous as I knew that Angie and Mawar would both be down for invigilation duties. The beginning of the week was challenging for me as I was preparing for the upcoming lesson observation both mentally and physically - finalizing the lesson plan, slides and preparing the materials. But Angie was there with me every step of the way, even as I carried out lessons with the P1 classes on Monday. She gave me concrete feedback to work on and suggested adjustments that could be made to my original plans. Her candid feedback helped me evaluate my own reflection for the lesson modifications. The changes made to my lesson plan were crucial to the generally smooth running lesson observation on Tuesday and contributed to me meeting my lesson objectives within the time planned for th...