The Clay Town

Tuesday (19/01/2010)
a) Flashcards: A town’s vocabulary
· We formed a circle. We read through words such as: park, see-saw, slide, school, zoo, basketball court, bakey, florist, mountain, hospital, fire house and police station.

b) A bird’s eyeview
· We glanced at our clay project. It was messy due to excited kid who played with them as well as this natural clay seems to be undfriendly. It hardens to be stone-like. The roads broke and Zhe Qing said, “Teacher, my butterfly’s wings have broken”.
· Luckily, I labelled the places using stickers yesterday. Thus, with encouragement, the kids imagined the places as I mentioned the names as well the constructors. Of course, the little kids were proud constructors at that time. I got Shi Jie to spell “CONSTRUCTOR” on the whiteboard.

c) Why are they important?
· Joe mentioned that we need a police station.
Teacher: Why? Foo Soon: To catch bad people.
Teacher: Yes! If there was a fire at the shopping mall, Firefighters will rush to there. They put out the fire and save people. Meanwhile, the policemen would investigate what causes the fire. A criminal or was it the defect of electrical products. So, why do we need hospital?
Devin, Yun Xin: There are doctors to help the injured people.
· The constructor each took a label and learnt to recognise it. Then, they pasted onto a toothpick before labelling the places on the hard manila board.

d) Colouring: Fire Truck.
· The kids did colouring about a Fire truck while I called the kids individulaly to paste their labels on the hard manila board.
· Some assisted at constructing the roads using straws.
· Yan Shan accidentally spill some water onto the clay and the clay changed into mud.
· Shi Jie and Zhe Qing thought that we should reconstruct the town using a different clay which I totally agreed!