Balancing the Stegosaurus’s legs.

29/07/2008 (Tuesday)

a) Corner Playing
* Kids chose toys to play. Some preferred colouring. LX, SJ, ZYg,ZY preferred colouring while the others chose their play.

b) “Hello, how are you?”
* English Reciting Program:
A : Hello, how are you today?”
B : I am fine, thank you. And you?
A : How are your father, mother, brother and sister?
B : They are very well, thanks.
* We took a look at our Stegosaurus Craft. We discussed the placement of the legs. The kids worked as a team. Half went to read storybooks while the other half pasted the 2 legs. Then they exchanged roles to fix the other 2 legs.

c) Analysing the craft
ZYg: Teacher, the Stegosaurus can’t stand. (The class laughed!)
T : What can we do?
ZY : Let’s use my egg cartons to fix the end of the
legs.
T : Good idea!

The class agreed to make 2 trees for the hungry Stegosaurus. Thus, 3 leaders were chosen to guide the kids. ZY headed group one to make a tree. EG headed group 2 to make another tree. YP headed another group to continue with the Stegosaurus craft. YW said the dinosaur is too soft. So, we used more newspaper to wrap the Stegosaurus.They showed more team work and independence.

d) I don’t want to be your friend!
* Some kids tend to say, “If you don’t give me your pencil or biscuit, I don’t want to be your friend!”
* I asked the kids to be honest if they ever said that sentence before. Surprisingly, more than half of the class admitted. A few said, that was last time. Now, I don’t say that anymore.
* The kids promised that they wouldn’t do that again.