On our second trip to Bintan, we gave a lesson to the children there. Our theme is puppet show, we hoped to let them know the importance of doing exercise and ways to protect the environment. After a puppet show which is mainly about how to greet people and how important doing exercise is, we use an interesting way to teach children doing exercise. For example, we divided students into two groups, one symbolized fish, another one symbolized fisherman. Students would stand on one side of the field, and when the game start, ‘fish’ will run to another side of the field, then, ‘fishermen’ waggle their hands, pretend they are pulling the fishing lines. In simple terms, it was a running competition, but we made it more interesting.

After the lesson, we made a SWOT. We listened to the TIF, we knew more about our strength, weakness, threats and opportunities. About our opportunities, there were many things that we can improve. First, we could organize our lesson better, in time management. Because there were many students in a class, so we divided them into two groups, one group outdoor, one group inside the room. But, when one group finished their exercise, another group was still working on its parts. So we figured out a way that let the faster group teach children simple nursery rhyme in English. We had an exercise which teaches kids about ‘pick up trash’. We asked them to pick up leaves and stones in the field, but it could be better if we can let children go outside the school and pick up real trash on the way.

During our final discussion with TIF. We made many simple English questions to add to games, this can attract children’s attention so that they won’t feel bored when they are learning English skills. We all hope that we can do something for the education in Bintan.