Shooting Stars

23/05/2008 (Friday)

a) Individual Assessment
This time round, the kids have got a new game at the field. It’s a mini football field. So, my active kids enjoyed the game, doubtlessly. Ten, we marched to the classroom and ensure they drink their water.
Next, they chose for either playing or continue with their colouring sheets. Meanwhile, I called the kids individually for Assessment. Today I called upon M, ZJ, JW, SY, SJ and JH. Most of the words I had already revised with them in the classroom.

b) Spinning is dizzy
After tidying the class, we gathered and recapped the song on “The Space Song”. They not only sang, but learnt to read and recognized the words. They started loving this song because it is easy to remember. Then, we imagined ourselves as planets. We know that planets spin and they go round the Sun. So, we started spinning and everyone fell to the floor with excitement because they started getting dizzy…ha ha ha! They learnt the word “spin”.

c) Story-telling: Shooting Stars
After tea break, we gathered for a story. It’s “Shooting Stars”. We did brainstorm first. What is “shooting star”? YP said they are rocks. YW said its stars. Actually, it's made of rock or iron. They could come in small, big or huge size. When they shoot from the space to the earth, they produce short or long shreds of light. They burn quickly in the air towards the earth. They would turn into bits smaller than grain of sand or dust. Bigger shooting stars would leave a big hole when they fell against the ground. Some days witnessed a few shooting stars. In 1833, there were lots of shooting stars in a night. The kids said that they would be terrified and happy at the same time if this ever happened to them. YZ said, he wished it's 1833 now and not 2008.

d) Solar System: Colouring
Next, we recapped the number of planets, the biggest, the number sequence and the farthest planet from the Sun. Then, we recalled the colours of the planets. I showed them a worksheet and guided them with the colour. We are going to make A Solar System Craft in the following lessons.