It is quite surprising that Sasa had a talk with students about her expectations of the students, "I have high expectation of you. Do you know what that means?" and why it is important. Later on, I realised she mentioned this to justify her asking people to stay at the classroom at break time if they make silly mistakes like capital letter and punctuation (honestly, I think she wont do that). She then led on to the topic on importance of capital letter and punctuation, which was followed by a mistake spotting section.
How to memorise words
It was very kind of Sasa to introduce me to ways of learners remembering the hard words. Unlike the Chinese way of reciting, they had plentiful of interesting writing and painting to do. For instance, "colour", "Pyramid", "wordshape" (Medicine, with painting of pills on letters), "Giraffe and monkey" (tall letter like "h,k" are giraffa and lower letters like "p,g" are monkeys with long tails. Also, there are kids who wrote poems.
Memorizing may sound easy, although it is one if the hardest things of the learning process. I know it and can share my experience as I have struggled many times to find some helpful tips for the students on remembering words. It's as difficult as finding where to buy essay online Australia these days. It can be simple to learn the words but as soon as one topic is done and closed for the discussion the kids quickly forget all they have learned and sit with empty minds and eyes. That's why this post is so valuable ad it has so many great activities on how to keep the words in their heads and make connections with the new ones.
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