Martina Gilmartin had a great class with her TELL2 SK Bandar Mentakab school recently. Her mentee Pn. Norzaini and Mr. Veera brought the students out of the classroom and helped them with making costumes out of old newspaper. The learner-oriented classroom allows students to use their own imaginations in some situations. In this way, we strive to create lesson plans that students enjoy which also adhere to the needs of the English curriculum.

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Mentor from Mentakab Martina Gilmartin had a great class with her TELL2 SK Bandar Mentakab school this past week. Her students brought in fruits and went through the whole process of making a fruit salad from washing the fruit to their favorite part: eating the salad!

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Mentakab Mentors Jimmy and Martina were invited to celebrate one of the members of the members of the Mentakab community receiving the title of "Dato." This is an honorific title bestowed to citizens of Malaysia that have made significant contributions to their community and country. The title of "Dato" is given personally by a Sultan during a special ceremony.

Jimmy and Martina have been working with this individual's organization closely as consultants for educational charity opportunities as well as participating in other fundraising activities.

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Martina and Madame Bee Choo from SJKC Mentakab 1 celebrated Chinese Lantern Festival with their year 5 students. The students made lanterns and Madame Bee Choo made moon cakes to share with her students. They then had a procession around the field. It is important that these students get the opportunity to celebrate their culture in their schools. 

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Some of Martina's schools came together for an inter-school field day before the UPSR test. These kids had a lot of fun!

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Jimmy continues to encourage his mentees to start PAL reading at their schools. Here, Mr. Haniff from TELL2 school: SK Telok Sentang can be seen helping his year one students as they read to each other during PAL reading.

Jimmy and his mentee will check the progress of the students to gauge how PAL reading affects the students throughout the rest of the TELL2 program.

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Temerloh mentors Jimmy and Martina walked into big celebrations in their schools on Friday morning. Their TELL2 schools were celebrating Merdeka, which is the the independence day of Malaysia.

Martina's TELL2 SJKT Ladang Semantan school really celebrated well with their flag-themed hats.

Jimmy's TELL2 SK Bandar Temerloh school gathered all the students and teachers for a morning of dancing, performances, and patriotic pride.

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