Our Stegosaurus Story

24/07/2008 (Thursday)

a) Storybook: If Dogs Were Dinosaurs.
* After music class, the kids drank water.
* Then we had a story session on “If Dogs Were Dinosaurs”. The kids were very attentive and imaginative. YZ, M, ZYg, YP, LX, SYu, JS all gave their opinions.
* Imagine a dinosaur dog stepping onto your car or urinating; which you thought was the smelly rain…haaa!
* Imagine you had a sister dinosaur who could carry the moon. * Imagine you being the dinosaur and playing basenall in the Space. The ball would be the tiny Earth.
* Imagine you had spaghetti hair and everyone would like to eat your hair.
* Imagine your face was carved on the big mountain, how would you feel?
* They were able to apply words learnt from “Dinosaur thematic” such as plates, strong tail, roar and also charged!

b) I want to tell my story.
* 5 kids handed up their homework although the dateline is tomorrow.
* Eugene started sharing in front of the class.
“Baby Triceratop wanted to eat some grass. Mother took him to the field. Suddenly, Megalosaurus ran to eat baby Triceratop. Luckily, Mother Triceratop charged the Megalosaurus and it died. Both mother and baby Triceratop enjoyed the juicy grass!”
* Jin Shan shared.
* “Baby Triceratop said it’s hungry. Mother brought him to llok for plants. Suddenly, T-Rex came and attacked the baby. Mother Triceratop charged the T-Rex and it died. Lastly, they enjoyed the plants happily.”
* Justin shared eagerly.
“Baby Triceratops said he was hungry. Mother said they would look for plants. Suddenly T-Rex came and attacked them. Finally, they enjoyed their plants.”
* Le Xin shared.
“Baby Triceratop was hungry and mother asked what she wanted to eat. She wanted to eat grapes. Then they went to the “Alphabet Garden” to look for grapes.”
Their friends clapped and were happy.

c) A kind heart.
* After tea break, the kids would read storybooks together which
was fun to do.
Then, they gathered for the continuation of class.
YW’s chair accidentally hit JN’s foot. YW didn’t want to apologise. YW always needed more time to think of her actions.
We learnt, “When we do right things, our heart will shine and be happy. When we make mistakes and do not want to admit, our heart would feel restless or worried.” A good example was a thief and a police or a liar and a friend.

d) Our Stegosaurus Story.
I drew a Stegosaurus and the kids continued the story.
ZY : A Stegosaurus was eating some grass.
ZYg: It could hear some sound. A Velociraptor was eating the dead body of a Spinosaurus……Pitiful, said the Stegosaurus.
WY : Then came a hungry Megalosaurus. It wanted to eat Stegosaurus.
J : It hit the Megalosaurus with its spiky tail.
YP : It pumped its blood to its vein and the plates became really red. The Megalosaurus ran away.
JS : Then came a hungry T-Rex. It wanted to eat Stegosaurus.
EG : It bit Stegosauru’s leg and made it very angry.
SYu: Again, the plates became red and scared away the T-Rex.
J : Not far away, 3 people form the Earth accidentally fell through a Volcano tunnel and they arrived “The Dinosaur World”.
LX : Megalosaurus wanted to eat the three people.
ZY : Then, T-Rex saw Megalosaurus and wanted to eat it. Luckily, Megalosaurus died and T-Rex was enjoying its meat.
JH : They hopped onto Stegosaurus’s back and became friends. Stegosaurus brought them to the volcano and they climbed back to Earth.
T : They became good friends!

e) More Newspaper.
ZY brought some newspaper. We need more crumpled one for the Stegosaurus’s 3D-model.
The kids queued up to crumple more newspaper. They had to do it tightly and enjoyed the process.

f) Phonics: “og”.
In the afternoon, we had Phonics session of “og”. The kids did an exercise. Words: fog, pot, dog, fox, cot.

g) Corner Playing and Stegosaurus craft.
They were so excited of playing with the toys. J and M also played with the girls on cooking.
Meanwhile, some kids took turn to assist me doing the Stegosaurus craft. Example: YP, SJ, XR, LX, JK and JN. In fact, I awarded LX a sticker because LX helped JK to gain confidence. LX taught him how and where to paste the cellophane tape. LX was very happy.
As a small family, we prayed for Max’s grandmother who fell down and is now in the hospital. We closed our eyes and say some short English sentences to get blessing.