Parachutes

03/11/2008 (Monday)

a) Corner playing and Props
* The kids chose their favourte blocks play.
* Some kids were called to complete their props. Justin's caterpillar, Zi Jun's and Jin Shan's masks.
* Shi Jie, Xin Ru, Le Xin and Jin Nan enjoyed helping them with the props.

b) Flying Rescue
* We read a storybook: HELICOPTERS
T : Why is a helicopter important?
Jin Shan: Put out fire!
Eugene : To give out food.
Yun Zhe : To save people.
T : Good answers.
* The book showed how animals were given food in the cold winter.
* How a boy was rescue from the sea. The army hung himself with a rope from
the helicopter. The boy was first given a safety float so that he can breathe well.
* The helicopters also report the traffic or weather condition in some areas.
* Besides that, the airship does the same thing. Just like the Olympics Coverage recently.
However, not many airship in the world due to its high possibility of fire accident. Nevertheless, an Airship need not depend on the wind as it has an engine to control its height and destination.
We referred to Yun Zhe's book for the pictures.

c) Parachute craft
* The kids saw my parachute sample how it flew down from a high place....Wah!
* Since we do not have toy people, we shall use cups as people.
* Today we used plastic bags. We twisted each the four ends and pasted to a thread each.
* The kids were so independent now at writing their names as not to mix theirs with others.
* Tomorrow we shall continue the craft.

d) Role-Play Practice
* Ha.... the kids loved the music background so much.
* We added a new role....Diamond Head.....actually as an important chance to its actor, WY.
* I felt that he needs to learn from every little step. I know he can do it!
* Hou Yi played the flute while Chang Er danced....on the moon.....haaa!
e) Musical Dance Practice
* For the first time, we practised together with Teacher Ang and his guitar. Lovely!
* The movements were quite messy...as they were so excited! I'm sure they will be better!