Amusing Division

This happened during today's recess time when I was having a meal at the school canteen with other fellow teachers. We saw an incident that involved 2 pupils regarding dividing their share of fruit. So this was the situation:-

Pupil A was holding 2 pieces of honeydew melon that was cut in half at the middle to his friend pupil B. Piece 1 was slightly longer than piece 2.


Okay, so what do you think happened afterwards?


If you think that pupil A took the longer piece 1 and gave piece 2 to pupil B - you are wrong.


This was what happened.


After a few seconds of deliberation pupil A held out piece 1 to pupil B, not to give it to his friend, mind you, but apparently he asked pupil B to take a bite out of piece 1. Pupil A deliberated again and compared the length of piece 1 melon and piece 2 melon.

Obviously after the bite off from pupil B, piece 1 became shorter. Now the amusing part - he gave piece 1 to pupil B which was shorter then and took piece 2 that at that moment was longer, looking way too smug thinking that he got the better deal of the 2.

The other teachers and I, who were watching the incident was like, "Huh?!"

Moral of the story: Learn your maths

Okay, I'm going back to the television and continue watching Braveheart ^_^
Have a good weekend!

First Contact

So today's the first day that I interact with my pupils. I have to say that I kept on going up and down the stairs to my classroom which are situated quite far from each other. Being assigned to the second class of the year, it sure brings out the challenge in me.

Did my usual proficiency test for year 4 pupils that my friends and I made during our session in School Based Experience session and it comes as no surprise when all of the pupils did not manage to answer it correctly. The good thing for that test, seems to me that the pupils have problems in their handwriting and spelling. Good, at least I get to identify some of that. Even though their vocabulary are limited, they understand simple instructions better.

For year 2, I have to say that it is going to be tough, but it's okay. As long as they are able to identify the numbers in numeral and word form, it's fine. Though I managed to stumble upon the word two-ty and ten-ty (which in their opinion stood for one hundred). Need to do lots of drilling.

And the ever sweet year 1. I bet you remember our primary school time when we were taught to say "Please teacher, may I go out?" before going to the loo, hehe. Well that was what I taught them today, other than the proper greetings for teachers and alphabets. Sure brought out the smile out of the passer-by outside the class. But one thing that I feared most for the year 1 pupils that they kept on leaking like a faucet. I mean in an hour there were more than a handful of pupils who had to go to the loo with a strangled face trying to remember the request in English. I'm sure that none of the teachers would want to have a leaking tank or a trail of... junk during their class *shivers*

Tomorrow is just another day.

Report to the base A.S.A.P!

It's my first day reporting at the school. So far, so good. The size of the school is more or less like my school during internship, only that the area is way congested. The area is limited and currently the school lost its field to make way for the construction of a new school building. From what I have learned, there are not much outdoor physical education activity for the pupils and the parking lot is always full that they have to double park the cars to accommodate the teachers.

It was school registration and fee collecting day. They prepared food for the teachers and staff today and I was quite surprised when suddenly someone was looking at me weird and asked:-

"Adik Kak Nadiah ke ni?"

I guffawed with laughter since I don't even have a kid sister, my name is definitely that and the question was so out of the blue that I choked on the cendol that I was consuming. The person who asked that was my junior from my secondary school days, much to my delight and we caught up with each other.

Got my schedule, took the respective textbooks and I was off back home by noon. Later in the evening, went out with my childhood buddy, Yan to the local mamak restaurant and filling in each other with details on our new schools - hers being our past rival primary school. Her sister happened to get a very remote school with only 9 teachers and the co-op happened to situated in the cupboard at the common room.

It's good to be back home with familiar faces and surrounding.

Anyway, I went back listening to Leona Lewis's song and due to my curiousity went on youtubing and I was blasted away by the sight of the judges of UK's X-factor and the audience kept on giving her a standing ovation after the performance and the cheer went on for so long after each and every performances. I mean, hey, how many times did you see Simon Cowell and all the judges kept on ovationing in the American Idols? Surely not as much as he did for Leona. The girl got talent and as the judges said which I totally agreed - she 'Leona-fied' all the songs that she sang, making it her own. And dang they didn't air X-Factor here.

Seems that I'm totally hooked up with X-Factor winners, hehehehe.