51 years of Independence

26/08/2008 (Tuesday)

a) Malaysia’s Birthday
T : Who went home to ask your parents about Merdeka?
YP : Mother said there is Malaysia flag on Merdeka.
SYu, JN : Mother said it’s Malaysia’s birthday.
LX : mother said there’s fireworks.
T : How old are you?
Class : 5…….4……..6
T : Good. How old is Malaysia?
Class : We don’t know.
T : Malaysia’s Independece Day is on 31-08 every year. We
achieved it on “Thirty-first of August, 1957). So how
old is Malaysia?
* We did a sum of deduction. Malaysia is 51 years old.
M : Where do we celebrate?
T : In K.L., we always celebrate at Stadium Merdeka.
* We can see marching, fireworks and also air performance by jets.
ZJ : Teacher, I have a toy jet.
* We talked about jets. Good pilots are able to carve words in the sky. Example: MERDEKA……..wow!
* Each kid took turns pretended to be a pilot, flying with ZJ’s jet………..Thank you ZJ.

b) Year 6 Riddles
* After tea break, we had visitors from the Year 6 Class. They were here to play “Riddles” with my class.
* My class sat in their 4 respectively groups.
* 6 years old took turns to guess the answers.
* As the 5-year-old were unable to ask questions, teachers guided them. Then they had a better idea. They took turns to draw their answers on a piece of paper. There were altogether 6 questions.
Only 1 group was able to get all answers correct. They were very happy and enjoyed themselves.

c) Ali, Leela and Mei Ling.
* These were our 3 new puppet friends.
Ali : Hello. I am Ali. I am a Malay boy. I live in Malaysia.
Mei Ling : Hello. I am Mei Ling, a Chinese girl. I live in
Malaysia.
Leela : Hello, I am Leela. I am an Indian girl. I live in
Malaysia.
* They sang Negaraku, Malaysia’s song. They had to stand straight to respect the country.
T : Why did Teacher invite these 3 friends? Why can’t I just
have all Chinese?
Class : So they can play together.
T : Before 1957, we were under the British colonies. Until today, there are many races in Malaysia. They were under the control of British, having no freedom to do their things. Thus, as years go by; more people got educated. The Late Tunku Abdul Rahman was a smart man who graduated from Britain. This Malay leader discussed with the British. However, with the unity of all races, we finally achieved MERDEKA.
T : What is this?
Class : A flag.
T : Why is there red stripes?
XR : Because it’s nice.
SYu : Because it’s birthday.
T : Related to body
Class : Blood.
T : Yes, it represents the courage from everyone.
T : What about blue colour?
Class : It’s the sky.
T : Good try. It’s the unity of all races.
T : Ask your parents, “What colour is Our Queen’s
dress?.....Why it is that colour?”
* The class repeated. Only JN said it was yellow.