Reading With You... Again !

After a long hiatus, Read-With-Me has started again ! In fact, it started 3 weeks ago but due to my busy schedule, I'm unable to blog about the Read-With-Me sessions. Well, in this term, Read-With-Me has a healthy amount of volunteers. I think this is beneficial for the kids as more attention can be paid to them instead of the previous class where a single volunteer may sometimes end up with three kids ! Unfortunately, now it isn't the kids that aren't getting the attention. It's them not paying attention !

Anyway, the lesson today was about fruits and every kid has to bring a fruit along to share with the class. Fortunately, this wasn't a repeat of last semester's lesson where every kid brought either an apple or an orange. I'm really looking forward to the day where I can see a kid bring a durian to class.

So there were a variety of fruits today, apples, oranges, mangoes, lemons, pineapples, starfruits and pears ! Questions about the fruits were thrown about, "How does a lemon taste like ?", "Have any of you ate a starfruit before ?", "So what's your favourite fruit ?".

After 3 sessions of Read-With-Me, the kids now are familiar and comfortable with their 'Kor Kor' and 'Jie Jie' and were more responsive to the questions.

"Lemon ? Sweet !"

My eyes were wide.

"You sure ?"

"Yes ! Sweet !"

"You want to try ?"

"Ok !"

After tasting a few drops of lemon juice...

"GIMME WATER !!!", squealed Kek Lu with his face looking distorted.

"So how does a lemon taste like ?"

"Sour." answered Kek Lu with some sourness while I sniggered away.

Within a few moments, the fruits were gone and the children were satisfied, being able to taste the different types of fruits that were available. Before we know it, it was already 11am and we have yet to start reading our books. After reading the books and filling the worksheets, the children settled down to play with some puzzles and it was another end to another Read-With-Me session.