17/07/2008 (Thursday)
a) Our loving parents.
* The kid chose their toys and played. Again, the girls preferred cooking tools while the boys preferred dinosaurs. However, JN loved playing with dinosaurs. Again, some kids did not want to share. Example: EG asked JN to share but she said NO! So, EG came to me as they couldn’t solve the problem. Reminding her those are schools’ toys; so she lent EG play for a while. They took turns. YZ and ZY just snatched away JW’s dinosaurs. JW complained. So, YZ and ZY learnt to ask properly from JW. JW as always a nice boy said, “Yes, you can have it!”.
* The kids passed up their homework. The dateline is tomorrow. I enjoyed looking at how some parents guide their kids creatively. Example, SC pasted short and long straws. SJ pasted pictures from magazines. ZYg’s father guided him to draw a car. WY’s mother guided him to draw the spiders and their webs. WY likes Spiderman.
* Some kids did not do. So, I guided XR who later drew the leaves by herself. I guided ZYg to write the words.
b) Our body’s skeleton.
* The kids gathered to see me draw a human’s body and skeleton. I asked them to touch their jaw. Open and close mouth a few times. “Children, that is a joint.” I drew the head skull on the board. Some laughed and ZY said, “It looks like an alien”.
“Where else can we find joints?”
Zyg, “Our legs; at our knees”. JS said, “Our back”……which is called backbone. I also said the shoulders and elbows. They learnt that these bones would be broken or dislocated if we had accident or fell. Then, we might need to wear cast.
JS, “Like my grandmother”. If worst, some might not walk if injured the backbone!
c) Playing Safe At The Playground.
* YW shared with everyone her story of how she fell down from the slide on Monday after school; at the playground.
“I stood on the slide. I was holding some pencils in one hand. Her friends who were also standing accidentally pushed her and now she had minor scars on her face. Luckily, she was not badly injured!
* This morning, I saw J held a harmonica while climbing the slide. I quickly took it away from him and now he knows why I did that! In fact, he wanted me to blow a song….….haaa!.
* So, they promised to play safely. They would also ensure their friends play safely.
d) Let’s vote!
* At tea break, SC pretended to be the bread seller. He collected one ringgit each for a piece of bread. He charged 50 cents for half a piece……haaaa!
* The kids have always wanted to make a dinosaur.
Teacher: “Do you want a big or a small dinosaur?” Only LX and XR wanted a small one.
Teacher: “Let’s vote. Who wants to make a T-Rex dinosaur?”
10 kids chose Stegosaurus, 2 kids chose Spinosaurus, 0 kids chose Triceratops, 5 kids chose Camarasaurus and 2 kids voted for Ankylosaurus. So, they cheered…although ZYg said he wanted a Spinosaurus. I said, “Maybe we could do one if we had extra time.”
* I drew a huge Stegosaurus. We labeled each part. “Plates, spikes and tail”. We divided the class to 4 groups. (i) Group 1 who will make the plates. (ii) Group 2 who will make the scales. (iii) Group 3 who will handle the newspaper. (iv) Every day, 2 kids would be chosen to assist me. Everyone will colour together.
e) Making Our Stegosaurus.
* Most kids were able to work as a team. JS, JN, SYu, SJ, JW, YW, LX, XR were the kids who were very attentive. The others were so enthusiastic that they couldn’t stop talking..haaaa! Seeing them enjoying their work…is really great!
* They drew circles for the scales and cut them. They also drew a curvy triangle for the plates. The others crumpled the newspaper to be pasted as the dinosaur’s body.
a) Our loving parents.
* The kid chose their toys and played. Again, the girls preferred cooking tools while the boys preferred dinosaurs. However, JN loved playing with dinosaurs. Again, some kids did not want to share. Example: EG asked JN to share but she said NO! So, EG came to me as they couldn’t solve the problem. Reminding her those are schools’ toys; so she lent EG play for a while. They took turns. YZ and ZY just snatched away JW’s dinosaurs. JW complained. So, YZ and ZY learnt to ask properly from JW. JW as always a nice boy said, “Yes, you can have it!”.
* The kids passed up their homework. The dateline is tomorrow. I enjoyed looking at how some parents guide their kids creatively. Example, SC pasted short and long straws. SJ pasted pictures from magazines. ZYg’s father guided him to draw a car. WY’s mother guided him to draw the spiders and their webs. WY likes Spiderman.
* Some kids did not do. So, I guided XR who later drew the leaves by herself. I guided ZYg to write the words.
b) Our body’s skeleton.
* The kids gathered to see me draw a human’s body and skeleton. I asked them to touch their jaw. Open and close mouth a few times. “Children, that is a joint.” I drew the head skull on the board. Some laughed and ZY said, “It looks like an alien”.
“Where else can we find joints?”
Zyg, “Our legs; at our knees”. JS said, “Our back”……which is called backbone. I also said the shoulders and elbows. They learnt that these bones would be broken or dislocated if we had accident or fell. Then, we might need to wear cast.
JS, “Like my grandmother”. If worst, some might not walk if injured the backbone!
c) Playing Safe At The Playground.
* YW shared with everyone her story of how she fell down from the slide on Monday after school; at the playground.
“I stood on the slide. I was holding some pencils in one hand. Her friends who were also standing accidentally pushed her and now she had minor scars on her face. Luckily, she was not badly injured!
* This morning, I saw J held a harmonica while climbing the slide. I quickly took it away from him and now he knows why I did that! In fact, he wanted me to blow a song….….haaa!.
* So, they promised to play safely. They would also ensure their friends play safely.
d) Let’s vote!
* At tea break, SC pretended to be the bread seller. He collected one ringgit each for a piece of bread. He charged 50 cents for half a piece……haaaa!
* The kids have always wanted to make a dinosaur.
Teacher: “Do you want a big or a small dinosaur?” Only LX and XR wanted a small one.
Teacher: “Let’s vote. Who wants to make a T-Rex dinosaur?”
10 kids chose Stegosaurus, 2 kids chose Spinosaurus, 0 kids chose Triceratops, 5 kids chose Camarasaurus and 2 kids voted for Ankylosaurus. So, they cheered…although ZYg said he wanted a Spinosaurus. I said, “Maybe we could do one if we had extra time.”
* I drew a huge Stegosaurus. We labeled each part. “Plates, spikes and tail”. We divided the class to 4 groups. (i) Group 1 who will make the plates. (ii) Group 2 who will make the scales. (iii) Group 3 who will handle the newspaper. (iv) Every day, 2 kids would be chosen to assist me. Everyone will colour together.
e) Making Our Stegosaurus.
* Most kids were able to work as a team. JS, JN, SYu, SJ, JW, YW, LX, XR were the kids who were very attentive. The others were so enthusiastic that they couldn’t stop talking..haaaa! Seeing them enjoying their work…is really great!
* They drew circles for the scales and cut them. They also drew a curvy triangle for the plates. The others crumpled the newspaper to be pasted as the dinosaur’s body.
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