Desaru Learning Journey

These days, children get to go on overseas trips in primary school. Yes, at P1! I recalled my first overseas school trip was at sec 2 to melacca. Well, that also meant that parents need to go along. Since we are applying leave, must as well bring mei along and make it a family holiday.

We covered 3 destinations- Desaru fruit farm, chocolate factory & wong's kampong. At each destination, gorgor had to complete some quizzes after each visit or activity. In Reggio, it encourages the child to learn and explore the environment- real life, in action, from self-observations, interactive instead of reading from books or listening to teachers. We (yah, parents included) learnt more about fruits, how chocolate is made and Malay culture. We also survived long bus rides with rowdy boys while we were trying to catch forty winks while caught in the PIE jam.

It was a long day for all of us. To reinforce the learning points, we recapped our experience from photos we took over the weekend. Documenting our memories through collage and captions. Last but not least, gorgor had to email his teacher about his trip. I realized how ICT has become an important communication channel to a kid now. He needed to address his teacher and sign off with his name instead of simply submitting a composition or diary which is already tough enough for a P1 kid.

That aside, I'm sure the children will remember their 1st overseas school trip like how I remembered mine. It's the beginning of the learning journey and more eye-openers in the days to come.