A Firefighter Story

Monday (11/01/2010)

(a) Sharing: About my parents.
Only kids passed up their homework. Among their sharing were:
Shi Jie’s father is a businessman while her mother is a housewife. Jun Hong’s father is an IT Manager while his mother is also a busy housewife. Zhe Qing's father is a manager while her mother is a teacher. Kwong Yong's father are both teachers. Qian Thong's father works as a hawker while his mother operates a plant nursery. Foo Soon's father works for a Telecommunication company while his mother is a hairdresser. About 8 kids did this assignment.

(b) A Firefighter Story.
We watched an online story about courageous firefighters. The kids’ aim were to focus on the things related to the job of firefighters.
The story highlighted that they had a Dalmatian dog which was good at sniffing and rescuing victims. Upon the ringing bell, they changed their uniforms and hopped onto their fire engine. As they sped towards the burning area, they sang songs about their job nature. The kids enjoyed themselves. Then, we diagnosed the objects on the fire engine. Among them were: a long ladder, a long water hose, an axe, a siren and the fire engine was red colour. We watched three rounds while singing the song.

(c) Discussion: What we should have.
In order to be firefighters, we must transform our classroom into a fire station.
Zhe Qing: A firefighter must have a hat.
Xin Tong: Also their uniforms.
Jun Hong: A ladder too.
Teacher: How can we dress ourselves?
After discussion, we thought of raincoats. Wei Hong and Chun Kit said they have and will try to get parents’ permission to bring to school.

(d) A Fire Engine
Last Friday, the kids suggested to use bags as a fire engine as tables could be heavy and dangerous. Thus, today; the kids got excitedly at arranging their bags as a fire engine. Wow! They arranged as a rectangle.
First, they were sleeping. Then, the bell rang off and the got up and changed into their uniforms. They quickly hopped onto their tailor-made fire engine. However, they could only drive within the rectangle space.
Teacher : Is there a better idea than bags?
Jun Hong: Let’s use chairs.
Devin : Let’s use paper.
Teacher : Don’t paper tear easily?
Jun Hong: Maybe boxes.
Teacher : Great! We shall try with chairs first.