Monday, March 24, 2008
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Hi from Tiffany
Hi All,
Thank you so much for your input. I have prepared 20 prizes (worth RM 39.90 each), so please keep those feedback coming in.
Also, my comments on the drama idea:
- It'll be good to have a narrator for the drama. That helps kids to improve their listening skill.
- Keep your script short and sweet.
- You can even involve the kids and make this drama interactive. When you make the script to be predictable, get them to fill in the voids in the script that you intentionally leave out. They love such moments.
- When planning the script, bear in mind to make some quizzes at the end so kids can answer. You'll also be able to gauge how much they listened and understand the drama.
- Remember to have lots of fun, as you guys always do!!
Cheers!
Tiffany T.
Thank you so much for your input. I have prepared 20 prizes (worth RM 39.90 each), so please keep those feedback coming in.
Also, my comments on the drama idea:
- It'll be good to have a narrator for the drama. That helps kids to improve their listening skill.
- Keep your script short and sweet.
- You can even involve the kids and make this drama interactive. When you make the script to be predictable, get them to fill in the voids in the script that you intentionally leave out. They love such moments.
- When planning the script, bear in mind to make some quizzes at the end so kids can answer. You'll also be able to gauge how much they listened and understand the drama.
- Remember to have lots of fun, as you guys always do!!
Cheers!
Tiffany T.
Session 3 March 22
Dear all
Hope you had a good break... This Saturday marks our 3rd session for journaling activities. I hope that you ( at least some of you) have learnt something or gained in some way through these activities. As Ms Tiffany had requested please do share your ideas and give your comments, through this blog ( if you can) or during the debrief sessions. You can also approach us personally if you want to.
Below is the plan for this Saturday's session:
MADU Club/‘Yellow House’ journaling program
Session 3 – 22 March 2008
Venue: Cafeteria and Classrooms
All volunteers to gather and group at TUCMC cafeteria by 9.00am. Groups
should prepare themselves for the upcoming session.
A) Grouping - cafeteria ( 9.30 am -10.15 am)
· Arrival of children
· Grouping & distribution of journals
· Announcements
· Groups to adjourn to respective venues for active
B) Main activity (10.15am – 11.15am)
Theme : My Story
Explore and Create
For younger children
The children are given a set of pictures from a comic strip. They then have to rearrange the pictures to form a comic with a story. Once it is done, they are to paste the comic into their journals and start to write dialogue for the characters ( in the ‘dialogue bubbles’). They children can then colour their comic strip. Volunteers are to help children to write the dialogue. Please encourage them and prompt them to create a story and to write the dialogue.
For Older children
The children are given an A3 size paper with 12 boxes drawn on it. They will have to draw a comic in the boxes given. Before they can start planning and drawing, they have to get the theme for their comic from the group leaders. Group leaders are to cut the 10 various themes before giving it to the children so that each one will have their own theme to draw. All the while, the volunteers are to help them with the dialogue and also the drawing whenever they ask for help.
Tea break (11.15am -11.35am )
Share (11.35 am – 12.10pm)
Based on the previous activity, ask the children to write a story for the comic that they have created( in the language that they are comfortable with) Tell them that they need to write the story based on the events in the comic strip. Your aim is to get them to write a story based on the given situation. Then ask them to do a reflection of the story to their lives (if this can be related to their lives) and ask them to write their thoughts in the journal ( can be done at home if they don’t have time) . Please do help the children with writing, as some of them may not have sufficient skills
Debrief session – Volunteers only ( 12.10pm -12.30pm)
See you on Saturday!
Hope you had a good break... This Saturday marks our 3rd session for journaling activities. I hope that you ( at least some of you) have learnt something or gained in some way through these activities. As Ms Tiffany had requested please do share your ideas and give your comments, through this blog ( if you can) or during the debrief sessions. You can also approach us personally if you want to.
Below is the plan for this Saturday's session:
MADU Club/‘Yellow House’ journaling program
Session 3 – 22 March 2008
Venue: Cafeteria and Classrooms
All volunteers to gather and group at TUCMC cafeteria by 9.00am. Groups
should prepare themselves for the upcoming session.
A) Grouping - cafeteria ( 9.30 am -10.15 am)
· Arrival of children
· Grouping & distribution of journals
· Announcements
· Groups to adjourn to respective venues for active
B) Main activity (10.15am – 11.15am)
Theme : My Story
Explore and Create
For younger children
The children are given a set of pictures from a comic strip. They then have to rearrange the pictures to form a comic with a story. Once it is done, they are to paste the comic into their journals and start to write dialogue for the characters ( in the ‘dialogue bubbles’). They children can then colour their comic strip. Volunteers are to help children to write the dialogue. Please encourage them and prompt them to create a story and to write the dialogue.
For Older children
The children are given an A3 size paper with 12 boxes drawn on it. They will have to draw a comic in the boxes given. Before they can start planning and drawing, they have to get the theme for their comic from the group leaders. Group leaders are to cut the 10 various themes before giving it to the children so that each one will have their own theme to draw. All the while, the volunteers are to help them with the dialogue and also the drawing whenever they ask for help.
Tea break (11.15am -11.35am )
Share (11.35 am – 12.10pm)
Based on the previous activity, ask the children to write a story for the comic that they have created( in the language that they are comfortable with) Tell them that they need to write the story based on the events in the comic strip. Your aim is to get them to write a story based on the given situation. Then ask them to do a reflection of the story to their lives (if this can be related to their lives) and ask them to write their thoughts in the journal ( can be done at home if they don’t have time) . Please do help the children with writing, as some of them may not have sufficient skills
Debrief session – Volunteers only ( 12.10pm -12.30pm)
See you on Saturday!
Thursday, March 6, 2008
thoughts on jounaling
Dear all,
I'm sure you are looking forward to the break next week. Do have a good holiday and see you on 22 March , our next session..
I'm sure you remember Ms Tiffany Tang who was with us during the last session. Here is something that she'd like to share with us:
Dear Everyone,
Hope it has been a good week for you. Once again, I’d like to say a BIG ‘thank you’ to all the lecturers and volunteers who have so passionately given your time to conduct the journaling program with the kids from various homes. I assure you that in giving to these children, some day you too, would receive rewards that far outweigh what you have contributed.
I mentioned that I would like to share a little and suggest some ideas along the way on how we can make the sessions more impactful, meaningful and effective. I hope you can give some feedback to these ideas. The more brains, the better, so don’t keep ideas to yourself. Bounce them off to us here. This is an excellent platform where all of us can and should be using to exchange our suggestions.
1) You’ve gotta experience first in order it to share it well.
Creative journaling is somewhat a tricky and abstract issue. It’s not the activity that makes sense, but it’s the practice which resulted from an understanding that by writing and putting my thoughts in a book, I can perhaps work out this problem. (Are you confused? Well, like I’ve said - it’s abstract!)
But firstly, you would have to be convinced that, YES!, journaling has indeed helped me when I was sad due to an incident. Or journaling has given me the courage to speak my mind as I have learnt to express myself more confidently. Such examples are necessary for you as the volunteer to grasp. Otherwise, you would be doing it just as another activity. The actual message hasn’t been conveyed.
I’d like to end by sharing some benefits of journaling. This has to do with personal growth. Read them and be inspired! There are already 21 benefits listed here. When you have started your own journal, please feel free to share how you have been impacted by it. The first 8 volunteers who share on this blog get a prize from me!
Personal growth:
Journaling …
Enables you to live life to the fullest
Is fun, playful and sometimes humorous
Expresses and creates
Plants seeds
Starts the sorting and grouping process
Integrates life experiences and learnings
Moves you towards wholeness and growth, to who you really are
Creates more results in life
Explores your spirituality
Focuses and clarifies your desires and needs
Enhances self expression
Enhances career and community
Allows freedom of expression
Offers progressive inner momentum to static unrelated events
Exercises your mental muscles
Improves congruency and integrity
Enhances breakthroughs
Unfolds the writer in you
Maximizes time and business efficiency
Explores night dreams, day dreams and fantasies
Measures and tracks what is important
I'm sure you are looking forward to the break next week. Do have a good holiday and see you on 22 March , our next session..
I'm sure you remember Ms Tiffany Tang who was with us during the last session. Here is something that she'd like to share with us:
Dear Everyone,
Hope it has been a good week for you. Once again, I’d like to say a BIG ‘thank you’ to all the lecturers and volunteers who have so passionately given your time to conduct the journaling program with the kids from various homes. I assure you that in giving to these children, some day you too, would receive rewards that far outweigh what you have contributed.
I mentioned that I would like to share a little and suggest some ideas along the way on how we can make the sessions more impactful, meaningful and effective. I hope you can give some feedback to these ideas. The more brains, the better, so don’t keep ideas to yourself. Bounce them off to us here. This is an excellent platform where all of us can and should be using to exchange our suggestions.
1) You’ve gotta experience first in order it to share it well.
Creative journaling is somewhat a tricky and abstract issue. It’s not the activity that makes sense, but it’s the practice which resulted from an understanding that by writing and putting my thoughts in a book, I can perhaps work out this problem. (Are you confused? Well, like I’ve said - it’s abstract!)
But firstly, you would have to be convinced that, YES!, journaling has indeed helped me when I was sad due to an incident. Or journaling has given me the courage to speak my mind as I have learnt to express myself more confidently. Such examples are necessary for you as the volunteer to grasp. Otherwise, you would be doing it just as another activity. The actual message hasn’t been conveyed.
I’d like to end by sharing some benefits of journaling. This has to do with personal growth. Read them and be inspired! There are already 21 benefits listed here. When you have started your own journal, please feel free to share how you have been impacted by it. The first 8 volunteers who share on this blog get a prize from me!
Personal growth:
Journaling …
Enables you to live life to the fullest
Is fun, playful and sometimes humorous
Expresses and creates
Plants seeds
Starts the sorting and grouping process
Integrates life experiences and learnings
Moves you towards wholeness and growth, to who you really are
Creates more results in life
Explores your spirituality
Focuses and clarifies your desires and needs
Enhances self expression
Enhances career and community
Allows freedom of expression
Offers progressive inner momentum to static unrelated events
Exercises your mental muscles
Improves congruency and integrity
Enhances breakthroughs
Unfolds the writer in you
Maximizes time and business efficiency
Explores night dreams, day dreams and fantasies
Measures and tracks what is important
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