I will always love my mother

09/05/2008 (Friday)

(a) Tadpoles
The kids gathered to see the little tadpoles brought up from the pond by Teacher Huang. Frogs like the fish pond. The kids enjoyed seeing their tiny short legs and tails. WY came early today and he held one tadpole in his hand......How daring!

(b) Story-telling: POLO
After drinking water, the kids gathered for the "POLO" story brought over by YZ. The kids loved it so much because there were no words except pictures. It was a story of a smart little dog called "POLO". It lived in a tree, in the middle of the ocean. He travelled up into the sky, sat on the clouds, make some ice-cream from the clouds, went down into the sea to meet the Kingof the Fish and got a lift from a whale. POLO changed every negative situation creatively and deliver wonderful and funny results.

(c) Happy Mother's Day
Next, we talked about this Sunday's special day; Mother's Day. Then they sang "Happy Mother's Day" song. They loved the chorus part: "Oh, oh, oh...who wouldn't know? Oh, oh, oh...who wouldn't know? I will always love my mummy, Happy Happy Mother's Day".

(d) Carnation Flowers
Today, LX brought some Oreo biscuits and seaweed for everyone. They were very happy and thanked LX. Next, we gathered to talk about Mother's Day card. They learnt to read the phrases on: "Happy Mother's Day", "I Love You" and "Thank you". They coloured the words and then cut and paste them onto their drawn colour paper. WY needed more encouragement as he didn't like colouring that much. Meanwhile, I called the kids individually to place their Carnation Flower into a sponge. They then put it in a plastic bottle. They learnt to reuse the bottles rather than throwing away. They were very excited.

(e) Which one can be recycled?
Next, I gave eaveryone a worksheet. They were supposed to colour the items which could be recycled. We discussed together. The recycled items included a bat stick, newsappaer, plastic bottles and apples. The kids learnt that leftover food could be made into compost for our plants. They were quite independent at identifying the items.