The Various Airplanes

28/10/2008 (Tuesday)

a) Let’s play and decorate
Some kids played with the Lego blocks.
Meanwhile LX, SJ, XR, JN and YW coloured little butterflies as the Performance props.
Zi Jun and Jin Shan decorated their birds’ wings.
The Various Airplanes
T : Why do some airplanes have propellers?
Class: Silent
T : …..because they don’t have jet engines. Airplanes with jet engines are actually jets. They can very fast.
* They learnt that Passenger Airplane is a type of jet and it has 4 engines.
* Those with propellers are usually used for minor scale. Eg: farming and rescuing people.
* They types of Airplanes include:
Passenger Airplane / Cargo Airplane / Military Airplane / Glider / The Wright Airplane (The first flying airplane).
A glider has no engines.

b) Musical and Role-Play Practice
The kids already knew the song.
It is challenging to get them moving at the momentum. I even asked for their opinions.
They were very tolerant kids when it comes to positions. Good!
As for drama, Ze Yan and Eugene could say a few lines independently. The butterflies were very co-operative. Hou Yi and Chang Er were attentive. Jin Shan and Max were very attentive. The others needed more encouragement.

c) Individual training.
Training was also given for the individual performers.
At the moment we had the “Airport Presentation” and also story-tellers by “Jin Nan and Justin”.