How can we make it stand?

21/08/2008 (Thursday)

a) Creating our own lyrics.
* The joyful kids thought of word substitutions for “Compsognathus” song.
T : Why did the dinosaur climb over the mountain?
ZY : Looking for meat
JN : Looking for plants
ZYg : To drink water.

* “The dinosaur went over the mountain, (x3)
To eat Camarasaurus meat.
To eat Camarasaurus meat,(x2)
The dinosaur went over the mountain, (x3)
To eat Camarasaurus meat”.

“ The dinosaur went over the mountain, (x3)
To drink some clean water.
To drink some clean water, (x2)
The dinosaur went over the mountain, (x3)
To drink some clean water”.

b) Fixing “the legs” problem.
* Our Stegosaurus model kept falling down. Their legs were not stable.
* We discussed together.
SYu : We can use big rocks.
JN : We can use 100 big rocks.
ZY : We can use bottles.
YZ : Let’s use the eggs’ plastic case.
T : We have used that but it wasn’t strong enough. What can we put under the plastic bottle to make the legs stable.
SC : We can use the rocks.
T : But it would be heavy for you to carry the big
Stegosaurus down.
SYu : We use 100 Plus cans.
T : Good ideas! Let’s try.

* They worked together to paste the bottles containing rocks. We haven’t got enough cans. Thus, we will continue again. We pushed the Stegosaurus and were happy to see it stand again.

c) Drinks for Sales!
* All kids were happy because each has got RM1 to buy a drink from the 4-year old stall.
* ZYg and XR forgot to tell their mothers. M was absent. LX misplaced her money. So, I lent them RM1 each. Everyone helped LX to look for her money but failed.

d) Balancing our kite.
* The kids learnt that they had to becareful with their kites.
* First, we made 2 holes at the top of the kite while 2 more holes at the bottom of the kite.
* They learnt to insert the string. It was a challenging task for them. ZY, JS, JN, YW were more independent. The others needed more guidance.