A fun homework!

23/07/2008 (Wednesday)

a) Morning music.
* After “lun yi” or Chinese Reciting Poems, the kids gathered to class and drank water. Then they attended Music class. My class begins at 9.15 a.m. effective from today.

b) Learn to play together.
* They asked for Corner Playing. I allowed. YZ and EG had a disagreement because EG’s dinosaur’s tail hit his hand lightly. YZ claimed that EG purposely hit him while EG said, I was only playing with the toys.
* Thus, I gathered the kids together. “We learnt to play together and not so rough.”
* The kids laid the various coloured cloths. I laid 2 baskets upside down.
* Once upon a time, there was a group og Plant-Eaters dinosaurs. They were Diplodocus, Stegosaurus, Triceratops and also Ankylosaurus.” The dinosaurs grazed for plants.
* On the other land, there were 2 T-Rexes. One a male and a female. The female laid eggs while the male searched for food. He killed a Stegosaurus. Then he chased a young Triceratop. It screamed for help. The mother Triceratop came to charge the T-Rex. The T-Rex ran away.”
* The kids learnt to play carefully and intelligently.
* I mananged to do 3 Individual Space Assessment.

c) The Dinosaur Song and new vocabulary.
* After tea break, the kids sang another round of “The Dinosaurs” song. They loved it! Today, we focused on the vocabs. The vocabs were the underlined words.

The Dinosaur Song
Dinosaurs x 2,
D I N O S A U R,
Some were small and fast, Some were big and slow;
Some walked alone, Some walked in herds;
Some ate meat, Some ate plants;
Some were fierce, some were tame,
DINOSAURS! ROAR! ROAR! ROAR!

d) Triceratops
* We used ZJ’s book.
T : What’s the meaning of Tri?
JS : three…horns.
T : Does it move alone or in a herd? In a herd. Look at ZJ’s book.
YZ : The T-Rex is chasing the baby Triceratop.
T : Yes but it roared for help. The adult Triceratops quickly ran to charge the T-Rex.
ZYg : Wow! The Triceratops is so strong!
T : How does it protect itself?
YP : With the 3 horns and the big head.
T : It’s called the frill which also has bones and muscles.
T : What does it eat?
Class : Plants.

The height is twice an adult. It is heavy about 6-12,000 kg equals to 90 adults.
They are 9 metres long equals to 4.5 whiteboards. “Wow!”exclaimed the kids.
e) Homework: Teamwork with family
* It has 2 parts.
(i) Colour page 4 of “The Dinosaur World” Workbook. Then, the
kids had to tell about Triceratop to his or her family.
(ii) Triceratop paper craft: One for an adult while another one
for the kid. Learn to read instructions. Train your kid’s
cutting skill. Then, create a simple conversation so that the
kids will present to the class. Have fun!

f) Stegosaurus CD
* The kids finally got the chance to watch this CD brought over by ZYg. They
observed how a Stegosaurus hit its predator with its spikes. It also uses its
plates to scare away them. This was becauseit had blood veins in its plates. It
would pump blood from its heart to its plates.

g) Worksheet: Spot The Differences
* YZ said “difference” means what is not the same. Very good! They had to find
the 6 differences in the two pictures. Each difference was circled and numbered.
* At this year round, these kids already know how to argue when their friends said their answers were wrong. They even learnt to defend themselves with reasons.