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Monday, July 21, 2008

What’s a Protoceratop?



21/07/2008 (Monday)

a) The Space Assessment
* The children hid as Protoceratops today and again I hunted for them either under the table or behind the chairs.
* They chose their play. Some did colouring such as LX, JN, SYu, SJ and ZJ.
* I did “The Space Assessment” with the kids individually. 4 kids were called. ZYg surprised me as he was able to read names of planets rather than some common words. True enough, he was really interested in “Space”.

b) JN’s birthday wish
* JN came in excitedly to announce that, “Teacher, today is my birthday”. Everyone was happy especially seeing the party packs.
* We revised words from the “ABCs’ Reciting program”. I includede JN as she was so excited. The words introduced included: king, queen, father, mother, horse, lion and a dinosaur called Protoceratops.
* JN celebrated her birthday at the garden with her father and mother. Her wish was that she could meet the great King and Queen. A “Protoceratops” dinosaur heard her wish and sent the message to the King and Queen. The King and Queen were very happy to visit her. They rode on their pet lion and presented a little horse as a “present” to JN. Along the storyline, the kids helped me with it. In fact, YZ asked that we perform this story as a drama. I said we would perform another drama but of a longer storyline. We would perform a darma related to the “Dinosaur World”.

c)Protoceratop looked like a parrot!
* After celebrating JN’s birthday, the kids gathered to learn more about Proceratops from Eugene’s book.
* It has the beak of a parrot and without teeth. It’s a plant-eater and has a frill on its head. The frill was actually a very short horn. Its length was 2metres and weighed 400kgs. YZ said, “Wow, it’s as long as the whiteboard!” The weight of 400kg is similar of the weight of all the children together with Teacher Jen and Teacher Yap. ZY said, “Then, we can ride on a Protoceratops”.
* YP said it was also clever because after laying an egg, it would move slightly forward to lay another egg. JN added that the eggs would not cracked!
* The babies could already walk once hatched from the eggs.
* So, the kids did colouring on their worksheet of “Protoceratops”.

d)Craft: Stegosaurus’s body

* Meanwhile, I called the kids to paste the crumpled newspaper onto the dinosaur’s body. They took turn to apply some glue onto the paper boxed-Stegosaurus dinosaur. Then they pressed the crumpled newspaper so that they look compact. Each kid pasted about 4 balls of paper. EG and ZJ showed great excitement.

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