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Kamikey's is a Japanese Origami creator. She always come out with some simple, easy and cute origami. If you want to teach children about the origami art, it was very suitable for your all.

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If you want to find some ideas about art & craft. You may follow the FB pages or search online about the Krokotak. This is good platform for your all to find some ideas about the art & craft. It was simple and easy, also fun for children.

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The Learning Station have posted many actions song that are suitable for children. All the actions or movement are simple and easy.

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We cannot have “social distancing” in the education sector, we are promoting socialization, we need to communicate, encourage children to give a response and ask questions. A practical lesson structure should enable children to engage in discussions, actively participate in class activities, children can receive and give feedback even tend to ask questions. So, I realized that we cannot just implement the asynchronous learning method, for example, just assign the worksheet through the google classroom, Wechat and so on.

Worksheets may good for evaluate the child’s writing skills or check their understanding on some particular topic but it cannot be used to evaluate their learning and speaking and some of the areas such as physical and social-emotional.  Besides giving worksheets, during MCO, teachers are putting effort into doing the teaching video. But, how many children really watch those of the videos? For those who live together with grandparents, one of the grandmothers told me she was not familiar to use the electronic devices, then her granddaughter actually not follow the task given by the teacher. However, some of the parents really follow the requirements of the teachers. Some of them even take and edit the video nicely about their child’s learning at home and give it to the teacher.

If it is possible, maybe blended learning can try to overcome some of the issues of the child do not follow the “track” of study. Synchronous and asynchronous learning need to carry out parallel. Synchronous learning can be referred to as learning through a virtual classroom. Through the virtual classroom such as Zoom and google meet, teachers at least can hear the voice of the children, carry out a conversation with them and play with them.

There was always have reasons for me to avoid to touch the part of home visiting. Although I know that it is good and it is one of the effective ways to get to know the families. Home visits can help to create strong, positive communication between teacher and parents and encourage parents more involved in the school’s activities or classroom activities that facilitate the child’s learning. Meanwhile, parents will know and more understand what is the purpose, learning outcomes or expectations of every “homework” that assigned by the teacher through Wechat. For this critical time, it’s time to change my mind and take a step forward to visit and concern the children and their families especially for those who live with the grandparents.

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Meeting with Government Pendidikan about SOP in Tadika Bintang Jaya

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Meeting with Government Pendidikan about SOP in Tadika Bintang Jaya

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always in appreciate time

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My reflection journal will be updated weekly on the weekend.

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https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bitmoji/bfgdeiadkckfbkeigkoncpdieiiefpig?hl=en

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If you want to create a personalized avatars to put in ur PPT slides, you can try Bitmoji! Like what I did in my washing hands story PPT.

Bitmoji allow users to create comic strips using personalized avatars, and preset templates and poses.

You have download the app in your phone and create an account in the app first. Then you can link your Bitmoji to Google Chrome, where you can straight copy the images of your Bitmoji.

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Bitmoji is your own personal emoji. Create an expressive cartoon avatar, choose from a growing library of moods and stickers - featuring YOU! Put them into any text message, chat or status update.

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If you are tired of conducting subject core lessons (bcz I am, honestly speaking, the children may starts to feel bored too), you may try Music lesson! It is a very fun lesson where children learn to listen to teacher's instructions and do the actions!

All you need is a pair of chopsticks :)

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Tap Your Sticks - Hap Palmer - Baby Songs

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Week 1 and 2

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Came to the second week of practicum, I felt great to see the parents are willing to spend their time with children and support their child learning at home. Through this online learning, parents will know how the teacher convey the lessons and make the same practices at home. For example, suku kata lesson, we are emphasizing to the letter sounds and blend them together which is different from the traditional method. When parents saw the way on how to blend the sound, they will use the same method at home to support children learning, make the practices synchronize between home and school, so children would not confuse and gain better learning outcomes. Since the teacher cannot observe and assess the children continuously after the lesson, parents play important roles to assess children learning and report to the teacher about their child learning progress at home.

Through this online learning, parents would know what their child has learnt and how much their child has learnt in deep. For the assessment part, I felt really touched, parents are willing to do the video recording or taking photos when their child is reading or do some task, for example, children able to point the words that saying by parents, children able to arrange the numbers in order and more. From the video, I can see parents are really put their effort into guiding their child to achieve the learning objectives. One of the parents send a voice message to me, her daughter cannot arrange the numbers in order. From the voice message and video, I heard her voice, she was sick, but she keeps guiding her daughter to arrange the numbers in order until the child get some improvement. Some of the parents looked a bit frustrated when guiding their child because their child not in the “learning mode”.

From that, I can see every child has their own learning pace, sometimes adults including me are too “nervous” and want to see the outcomes immediately and forget they need time to absorb the knowledge. They need to build their own schemas and construct own understanding during the process of learning. Their learning method may be varied to the others. One teaching method is no guaranteed can be suited for all children. So, teacher and parents need to find the adapted ways to guide the child. Therefore, the collaborative relationships between parents and teacher is important to help and support children optimal learning and development. Teachers play important role to help family members enhance their understanding of their child and support family members in the continuing development of their skills as parents.

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Pinterest is a good platform for all the teachers to get the ideas from it. It can give you some ideas or methods to help you plan your classroom activities or lesson. Besides, you should need to create an Pin account, and then login, because it will allows you to search more information that you need.

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Discover recipes, home ideas, style inspiration and other ideas to try.

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We had gone through a Covid-19 theme for about three weeks which we conducted lessons (on Friday) about being aware of this pandemic and how to take care of ourselves with the children.

I created this story on my own by referring to some other stories available online. I decided to create my own story using PPT slides bcz I want to tell the story in my own way and I can remember the flow of the story better. :)

This story is about the importance of washing our hands and teachers may use this to teach children the proper way of washing hands after telling the story. We used hand sanitizer to replace soap and water (mess-less haha) and the steps of using hand sanitizer are the same as washing our hands at the sink.

Our children had fun so you may try to do this as a lesson!

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You may find some fun and interesting on YouTube. There have a lot of educational video that you can insert in your PPT slides. This is a ways that to attracts children and keep their eyes on the screen, also reduce their boredom during lesson time.

The reason that I use it because it allows me to find many related video about to the subject that I taught, or children's nursery rhyme, and looking for some ideas.

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Life Cycle Of A Frog! - The Dr. Binocs Show | Best Learning Videos For Kids | Peekaboo Kidz

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COVID-19 SPECIALManage fears about school transition

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COVID-19 SPECIALManage fears about school transition

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(https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/manage-fears-about-school-transition?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_campaign=STFB&amp;utm_source=Facebook&amp;fbclid=IwAR2rg3hYh3jiYQO07IHxbB0rFjSDLkAuxNr7RyT6yKiFy4tUuDHcFdpVVrY#Echobox=1591514341)

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6 June 2020 (2-3.15pm)

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Online story-telling by MPI Diploma student 

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Online story-telling by MPI Diploma student 

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Another idea for learning resource using In-Shot App.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L90z-gXQej8

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Ideas for learning resources:
https://www.kidzmatters.com/age-group/home-based-learning

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Find Free Stories Online. Create books for kids.

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Find Free Stories Online. Create books for kids.

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I saw a friend of mine who's a teacher too, shared about this great website where you can create your own illustrated stories online! Teachers can create their own stories and add pictures and props then publish the story online! How great is that? Now, go and unleash your inner story-writing energy in this website!

*I haven't tried this. Will share about it once I've tried it.

StoryJumper is a website that lets students create and publish their own illustrated stories. Whether students are beginning writers or brushing up on their skills, StoryJumper provides an outlet for them to use their imaginations as well as learn some real writing strategy if they're ready for it. The simple interface auto-saves students' progress as they drag and drop images to illustrate their stories and add text.

Click here to go to StoryJumper now!

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StoryJumper is a website that lets students create and publish their own illustrated stories. Whether students are beginning writers or brushing up on their skills, StoryJumper provides an outlet for them to use their imaginations as well as learn some real writing strategy if they're ready for it. The simple interface auto-saves students' progress as they drag and drop images to illustrate their stories and add text. A free teacher account includes a separate dashboard, a handful of helpful classroom features, and lots of teaching supports including lesson plan ideas. A collaborative feature allows students to work together to create a story. And the International Collaborative Writing Project pairs interested teachers with another classroom from somewhere else in the world for a story-making exchange. StoryJumper offers Google Classroom integration, and though it's web-based, it can be used on an iPad.

Like many book creation programs, StoryJumper's interface begins with two blank pages. To add illustrations, students choose images from a panel (for example, a brown bear) and drag them over to the page, placing them against a background that they can also choose. They can resize the bear to fit into a mouse hole, or make it Godzilla-size. This image manipulation might even change a student's story, which is why it's such a fun feature. There are a handful of different fonts and colors, and students can overlay text in a variety of stylized banners. Beyond the basics, there are lots of customization options that students could spend a lot of time exploring such as including photos, inserting their own artwork, and designing their own characters. Students can also use the record feature to add their own voice reading the story, or explore other audio options such as background music or sound effects. Authors can purchase digital or hard copies of their own books and make them available for anyone else to buy.

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StoryJumper Review for Teachers | Common Sense Education

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StoryJumper is a website that lets students create and publish their own illustrated stories. Whether students are beginning writers or brushing up on their skills, StoryJumper provides an outlet for them to use their imaginations as well as learn some real writing strategy if they're ready for it.

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Create GIFs or using GIFs in your lesson's PPT slides

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Create GIFs or using GIFs in your lesson's PPT slides

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GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format and is a lossless format for image files that supports both animated and static images. (Google)

I have been using GIFs for quite some time now and when I discovered about inserting GIFs into PPT Slides, it creates a very fun slides presentation.

You can find GIFs mostly on Giphy https://giphy.com/stickers and this website has TONS of GIFs that you can search for. From Hello to Goodbye. But of course if the one that you search for doesn't appear, well, YOU CAN CREATE ONE :) in the website. The GIF maker supports YouTube URL so you can just simply insert the URL and set the time and duration that you want. There you have a GIF that you can insert in ur PPT.

GIF Maker: https://giphy.com/create/gifmaker

The reason why I use GIFs is because moving/animated images attracts children and keep their eyes on the screen! Plain words and static images in ur ppt slides can make children feel bored after some time... so GIF it away! Have fun trying! :)

Quick Tutorial Video below:

Please turn off the sound as I forgot to pause my Spotify music when screen recording. Sorry!

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Using Kahoot! as one of your online quiz assessment!

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Using Kahoot! as one of your online quiz assessment!

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Kahoot! is a free game-based learning platform that makes it fun to learn – any subject, in any language, on any device, for all ages!

We've started using Kahoot! as one of the ways to assess our children after the lesson. It is a very fun online quiz that allows children to answers questions as if they are playing a game! The parents of my children told me that their children enjoyed playing the quiz so much!

But you can only create closed-ended questions such as multiple choice and yes/no.

It helps me a lot because some of my lesson focuses on recognizing the vocabularies so I can just put a picture and a question and in the multiple choice I'll put words. The children can just match the word to the picture and click on the correct answer.

*One more thing, parents don't have to create an account before playing. Once they got the link, they can just enter their name and start playing!

It is very easy to create and most importantly, fun!

https://kahoot.com/

Please turn off the sound too. Sorry about the barking sounds of my dogs. Haha.

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Came to the 4th week conducted lessons by using Zoom. On Monday, one of the mothers told me, her daughter wants to quit from the online learning due to the child’s father will go outstation to work and the child’s aunt is also busy on her school works, no one is available to accompany her daughter join the online class. The mother felt sorry about this matter. This news really shocked me, because I just have 6 children join in this online class and if the child left, I just have 5 children. This is not fulfilling the requirement for this practicum. But I really appreciated, because she willing to let her daughter join the online class from the beginning until now. After that, I try to find another child to join the online class, but the feedback is no data, do not have a computer and etc. This scenario had made me think about not every family are able or willing to join the online class. How about for the children who stay in the rural area, some of the areas do not have proper internet services. How they continue their study at home? How teachers in rural areas support the children studies? Teachers in rural areas really met a big challenging in this matter if compared to us.

When I am still finding the other child to join the online class, the mother who wants to quit from online class suddenly message to me again, she will still let the child continue the online class until really can’t afford to continue the lesson. At that moment, I felt touch and happy because of the mother show supportive to me. At the same time, there was a news release the kindergarten will reopen on 1st of July. That day, my mood was like a roller coaster, go down, go up and go down again.

School reopen is good. But will all the children come back to school? From the survey that had done by Tadika Sing Ang Tong. Most of the parent support go back to the school but they also worried about their child “safety”. They are worried about the children cannot follow some of the preventive ways such as keeps the distance between the peers, and wear the mask properly. The school will be facing another challenges to keep the children “safe” and adapt to the new norm of daily routine. Besides that, how to cater to the emotion of the child after the pandemic also needs to be considered. It is important to let children know, teachers and peers do not hug you, not because we do not love you because of protect you. May be can have a new greeting way. Children only can learn when they feel safe and secured. Another words, feeling safe makes learning possible. The school needs to do a lot of preparations for reopening especially in children matter.