The Rody and Big Gym Ball

Monday (01/06/2009)

a) Flash Cards
l Words: Ride, climb, run, walk, skip, hop, run, bounce.
l Then, the kids walked in a circle. When I hit my tambourine, I instructed them to change the movements. They were good at it.
l Then for the second round, when I hit the tambourine, I used the flash cards to instruct them.

b) The Rody and Big Gym Ball.
l The class was divided into 2 groups. One was to ride on the bouncy horse which was called Rody. The other group was to bounce on the big ball. They just enjoyed themselves. However, it was more challenging to bounce on the big ball.
l 3 peak cones were lined and they had to ride or bounce through them. At the end of them, they had to read 4 flash cards laid on the floor.
l 14 kids were able to read all the words independently. The other 3 needed some guidance.

c) Basketball or worksheet?
l They really looked forward to playing basketball…..for the boys. However, disciplined is always highlighted for every activity that we do. They were quite unorganized when playing “The Rody and The Big Ball”. Thus, I ordered that no game for the day. Games would only be carried out with the availability of teamwork and good disciplines.
l We did the worksheet on the flashcards we learnt earlier.
l The kids wrote extra sentences: “I can ride on a horse. OR I can bounce on the big ball.

d) Corner Practice
l After completing their worksheets, the kids went to the related corner to practice either pom-pom or cheerleading. The other corner is for them to practice shooting balls into the hoop.
l They hoped that they could play basketball tomorrow. Let’s just see their teamwork, then!

e) Our Red Lady Fingers
l Every morning, two kids would take turn to be the gardeners to water our vegetables.
l Jen Ning and Jia Yun discovered that our lady fingers have bore fruit……yes! They have grown! We were of course excited and also saw that our baby melons are growing bigger each and every day.