He is not “action”!

08/07/2008 (Friday)

a) Yun Zhe and origami
* Everyone was playing with toys. Today everyone seemed to play with one another. However, Justin, Le Xin, Zi Jun, Wen Yue and Eugene always needed me to remind them to quickly put their bags on the rack before drinking water. They had been told that water might spilt onto their bags and there will be less place to play and walk around.
* Yun Zhe cried as he wanted his mother. I got him down from the car. As he was holding an origami book; I asked him whose book was that. He stopped crying and showed me his interest page. As we had another 15 minutes before the next period, I guided him to fold the “frog”. Wen Yue was interested and joined us. Yun Zhe suggested that I used that as a puppet to talk to children……haaa!

b) Story: The Little Triceratop
* The kids gathered to hear a story. It was the courtesy of Jin Shan. I used the frog to assist me in story telling. It was a very funny story that made all the children laughed!!
* Title “The Little Triceratop”. The baby triceratops was called Bee Bee. One sunny morning, he was walking. Suddenly, he saw a black monster. He screamed, “Argghhhh!!!! Monster!!” He started running. The monster kept chasing him. Suddenly, Bee Bee tripped and fell down. He cried….but the monster is missing! Then, his mother came. “Bee Bee, that is only your SHADOW”. All the children laughed! They learnt the word “shadow”.
* Under the sunlight or bright moonlight, we can see our shadow.
Craft: Our Stegosaurus
* We continued with our “Stegosaurus” craft. As we did not have enough plates, each kid made a few more. Today, they coloured the plates red as a Stegosaurus’s plates contained blood veins!
* 5 kids checked the crumpled newspaper. They ensured that the papers are properly crumpled; so that they would make nicer dinosaur.
* Zi Jun, Jin Shan and Justin assisted me to cut the gigantic Stegosaurus which I drew on the paperbox. Actually, we recycled from their spoilt SpaceCraft. They agreed to do that. I disallowed the kids to handle the blade as it is dangerous.
* Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. Justin said, “Wow,…we are geologists!” Jin Shan said, “I am a geologist.” Justin said, “No, we are all geologist. Teacher too!” Wow….friends’ influence!

c) Mathematics Workbook
* We did Mathematics. We did Exercise 1 and 2. Exercise 1 required the kids to match the same number in the square box. Then, they had to circle the matched number.Most of them could do. Justin and Le xin needed some guidance.
* Exercise 2 required the kids to fill in the empty space. It’s a page about numbers 1 until 9. Eugene said it was simple. Ze Yan said he was action! Hmmm……It’s impolite to say that people are bold or action. So, we asked Eugene to write the answers on the whiteboard.
* He could write easily…….I told them, “This is an easy exercise as most of you had already knew numbers 1 until 10.” They smiled. Everyone clapped for Eugene and themselves.

d) The bread seller.
* As Song Chuan was the bread seller yesterday; today he brought 4 slices of raisin bread. Usually, he didn’t bring any food. He said he wanted to share with his friends in the afternoon tea break.
* Ze Yan sold the breads today to the kids. Well…..they were having fun. They learnt to count and even learnt that every little food cause money. They will learn to appreciate more.
* When noboy wanted the bread anymore, Eugene, Zi Yang and Ze Yan said, “Free bread! Free bread!” Jian Wei said, “Wow…discount time!”…….Haaaa！


e) Craft: Our Stegosaurus
* We continued with our “Stegosaurus” craft. As we did not have enough plates, each kid made a few more. Today, they coloured the plates red as a Stegosaurus’s plates contained blood veins!
* 5 kids checked the crumpled newspaper. They ensured that the papers are properly crumpled; so that they would make nicer dinosaur.
* Zi Jun, Jin Shan and Justin assisted me to cut the gigantic Stegosaurus which I drew on the paperbox. Actually, we recycled from their spoilt SpaceCraft. They agreed to do that. I disallowed the kids to handle the blade as it is dangerous.
* Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. Justin said, “Wow,…we are geologists!” Jin Shan said, “I am a geologist.” Justin said, “No, we are all geologist. Teacher too!” Wow….friends’ influence!

f) Colouring
* The kids did a colouring page on Stegosaurus. Most of them coloured the plates red except a few who preferred other colours.
* This activity will reinforce their learning of ‘Stegosaurus”.