Dzongkha rhyme downloaded for the rhyme competition.

Like every school has the rhyme competition, we too have the trend of having nursery rhyme competition. It was held on 27th September, starting from class PP-III. As a fact, teaching a pre-primary children is very challenging as well as it is time taking. It was confusing as to teach what type of rhyme I was to teach within a given limit of time.

I downloaded a Dzongkha Rhyme called "nga dang chi kha lhap" and I personally felt like it was relevant to them. I collected the resources such as speakers, laptops and managed time for teaching. The moment I showed them the laptop and the speakers, students showed a keen interest in it. The silence was broken and then it was followed by a cheers and smiles. Firstly I showed them the rhyme and dances and asked them if they liked it. There was a positive response from all and then I played the song, pausing line after line.  They repeated after the song and danced following the steps shown in the video. They were extremely happy.

picture . Students during the show.

Besides, it was a great help for me too. I was able to pay my attention to the slow learners and teach them separately. No students were left behind. I went round the class and whenever they required some more effort, I paused the lesson. I gave feedbacks during the time of monitoring them.

As it was an audio visual learning, the retention power was considerably more and they were able to sing and dance even after the practice was over. This rhyme also helped me to recapitulate the content of the lesson which was already taught in previous class.

However, teaching through video for lower classes entails a lot of challenges. They were unable to grab some words as pronounced in the video. As a child they don’t reflect on the meaning of the song but their interest was more on just the song and pictures.

But in general, teaching rhyme through video is more of fun and they were able to comprehend the meaning through pictures and actions.

This given video is the one which was downloaded and taught to them.