First a file:  This is the “Lost in Space” classroom PPT Game a previous co-worker named Leah Pang started, from a file I had made, and then I finished it yesterday. First is pptx file and the second is the ppsx file)

Recently I have had a new student join my tutoring class from mainland China, and at first it seemed a bit odd. Here was this 14 year old girl, just arrived in Canada, and her main complain was…. that her teachers at school here were not giving her any homework. She arrives at my class and immediately asks me to assign 20 pages of homework. ( I did give her a pile, but I don’t know how many pages). I sat down and had a chat with her and my other student that was in the class, and explained that Here in Canada, we prefer not to give a lot of workbook work, and instead prefer to find was for students to use the material practically. That was not good for her.

After class I remembered my frustrations from when my son was in school in China. He was getting a lot of workbook homework daily, but the teachers did not seem to mark it. (Or maybe he was not passing the books in, I don’t know) As a grade 1 student he was getting a whole new math workbook weekly. He seemed to be the only student having difficulties with this. Now he has returned to Canada and I can see easily that my son is having difficulty understanding the attitude of the other students and making friends in his grade 2 class.

As a teacher and a father I am a firm believer in practice makes perfect, but I believe doing makes the master.

STORY: For your enjoyment today I put up the prologue of Aetolus’ Story. Aetolus’ Story is a re write I did a while ago of the Atlantis Legend. I would like you to decide which Introduction you like better, and I will keep the more popular one and incorporate the important factors into the survivor.

Art: I post for you: Akane, a character you will meet later in the story. I drew her first in 2002, while living in Korea.