Order Remember Total Frequency of Techniques Use

After spending minutes for memorizing the words of number, games was carried out all over again, the second game was a bit differed from the previous one, students now were only asked to stick the words number written in the paper to the numbers written in the whiteboard. This second task seemed easy for students because they are not again trapped in the difficulty of writing the new alphabetical numbers. The teachers then turned the instruction of the game by changing the way of doing it. The students now were asked to write down the number only below the alphabetical numbers. They now had to write their initial name after completing the game task. This was conducted to make teacher easily in scoring students. If there were dominantly girls who correctly completed the task they would get more score and it was also for the boy in the other way. There are at least four types of games used from all games applied in this class for the first meeting with the percentage of 57.14 . They are Identify: guess, Connect: match. Order, and Remember according to Wright in Games for Language Learning. In addition, the use of the songs technique also appeared two times with the percentage of 18.18 in this meeting. Those songs are categorized as counting and learning song type. In evaluating students understanding, teacher wrote the numbers in the whiteboard that the students are asked to write the alphabetical numbers in their own practice books. They are given fifteen minutes to finish the task given. Then they had to come forward to show their works and get the score. See Appendix 5 - Observation 1 st R, Page: 130-132. b Meeting Two In this second meeting, song was firstly used. It looked very effective in rising and awakening students’ motivation. Teacher asked the students to come forward to sing the song together by moving their body adjusting to the lyric of the song. The song is written as follows: Up and down and Clap clap clap Up and down and Jump jump jump Jump to the right and jump to the left Turn around and Jump jump jump This song was sung for three times. In second singing the speed of the song was faster than the before and students are eager to sing it by moving their body. The song singing was even faster than the second one which made all students completely move their body by turning around, clapping, jumping etc. After singing song activity was done, teacher recalled students’ memory about numbers material they have learn in the previous week by introducing them the new vocabularies. They are “Before” and “After”. Then teacher asked students the number “before” and the number “after”. Going to the next session in the second meeting, it was the still relating to the previous material but with a bit variation of lesson. Students were asked to open their book at page forty one and look at the pictures of some animals. The animals were drawn with numbers beside of them. T eacher asked them to match the animals’ names with numbers written beside the animal. When students are considered to understand this material, the next page was opened. Some animals like giraffe, lions, and snake were seen in this page. Students then had to count how many animals there are and to say the number. When finished, teacher drew some pictures of fish and asked the students to count them. During the teaching, the practice of song technique was occurred again. The song was related to the material of numbers. It was written on the whiteboard for students had no idea of what the song was like. Student was