Field trip to Bukit Timah

We had our field trip to bukit timah hill today.like how they say in malay it was balik kampung for me as it was at hindhede road that i stayed as a child so coming back to the hill,which used to be where i played with my kampung friends brought back sweet memories!How nice it would be if we had just remained as kids then i wouldn't have to bother about my micro teaching session which is about to come up in less than a month's time!hehe

Today's lesson started off real early and we set off the moment everyone had gathered.Dr Chang brought us along the south path of the nature reserve..my legs were really screaming in pain when we continued to travel uphill, thanks to the workout i had the previous day!

Dr Chang gave us a worksheet to complete as he went about showing us the buttress roots,lianas and epiphytes.after a while he got bored with the worksheet just like us and decided to abandon the idea. he then gave us cards which possessed questions which the class had to guess not the answers but the questions itself!!i found it to be quite a unique approach as our brains are always programmed and trained to guess for answers only!

The most important thing that i had learnt today was to realise the need to have a field trip.Hextbooks would give the students the knowledge of what a rainforests consists of and all but to read about a leaf with a waxy surface and to feel such a leaf are two very distinct things.Having a field trip which required the student to use his/her senses would not only keep them engaged but it would also prove to be valuable to them.

After all the dilly dallying we were all caught in the rain and Dr Chang went on to talking and explaining why the sky is blue and all to us!!haha..i had to go back to nie for my lessons at 1130 and it was really nice of Dr Chang to give me a ride back!