Another mini-project of mine for the Library Project was Book Review. The pupils did it for the whole week of Week 5 during their English and ICT lessons (5 one-hour lessons). They were given flexibility to choose any books that they like so much. Then they have to write about how they feel after reading the books and I guided them through out the way. They also talked about the summary of the story books and about the illustrations on their books. Many of them were not able to finish their reviews due to the netball practices and dance practices held in the school for the upcoming competitions. This activity is quite useful as it helps the children to express how they feel about the book and encourage them to write as well. It is a common problem for pupils in Brunei that they are not really motivated to write compositions. So I think, this is one of the best ways to attract pupils to write at least how they feel about what they have read. From all the 17 pupils, here are the four winners of the book reviews:
First Winner: Siti Khadijah with her book review on Puss in Boots
Aqmal managed to be the second winner!!Congrats Aqmal...
Keep it up Khairul...All your hard work paid off.
Keep Up the good work Nawal...Your father must be proud of you
At first, I displayed the draft version on the board. However, I managed to get all of them to type out their work during the ICT lesson and printed them on fancy papers as shown above. I have to pick only four best ones and encouraged the others to be more creative and expressive like the winners. It was a good experienced that they have gained and I will try to do activities as such when I'm back to the school. For the time being, two of the English teachers will take over the blog after this to update the activities to be done in the library.
