PACE Program Week 2

This is the second time of our PACE program on 7^th October 2014. On this week, we are still going to SMK(L)Methodist to help our mentees. Before going to the school, I was so excited to meet my mentee but I was so disappointed when I reached the school. This is because I was waiting my mentee until the teacher came in and my mentee who is Kian Weng did not appear. Therefore, Janet and I have another new mentee which did not attend on last week. The teacher was teaching Mathematics last week. When teacher teaches until half way, that boy has moved to front seat because he can see the words on the whiteboard since we sat at the back.

After that Janet and I was separated to help other classmates in mentoring their students. I was mentoring a Chinese boy with one of my classmates. Last week was an “easy” week for me since my mentees did not attend and the new mentees was good in Mathematic, so we just have to explain to him and teach him the hardest question which he could not solve. Besides that, we have also given him some extra questions since most of the questions are easy for him.

Last week was our group preparing after class activities. My group members are Elaine, Janet and me. Our game is we would play some music and the students pass the bottle around the classroom to their classmates. Once the music stop, the one who was holding the bottle has to answer a question in 30 seconds and those cannot answer correctly have to sing or dance. There are some limitations of the game that I get. First, the music was cannot spread all over the classroom although it is the maximum volume and the sounds of the students had covered the music. Second, we do not expect that students do not like to perform. Therefore, one of the students ran out from the classroom when he knew that he has to perform something. Some of the students also go out from class because they do not want to join the activities. At last, I think we had make it better by letting the students help their friends when they could not answer it. For those who did well all of us were giving them applause. I think it could give more confident in doing Mathematics.

In conclusion, I hope that I can meet my mentee on next week since he is a really good and kind mentee for me and I hope that what we do can help them in their studies.