Improvisation

Thursday (14/01/2010)

(a) Flashcards
· To reinforce the new vocabulary on “Jobs”. Among them: Firefighter, doctor, policeman, soldier, nurse, scientist, chef and also astronaut.

(b) Discussion: Our Fire Station
· The table looked neat except that we need to have a label “Fire Station”.
· One flower was well cut while the other needed amendment. As we used cardboard box paper, it was unsuitable to colour with crayons. The kids saw the result of the crayon flowers. Thus, we agreed to use colour pencils. I showed them an easier way to draw a flower and Xin Tong, Shi Jie and Chia Yen worked successfully for much nicer flowers.
· Zhe Qing suggested that we have trees around the Fire Station while Zhi feng wanted to draw houses. Thus, they drew attentively, coloured them and cut them out nicely.

(c) Improvisation on Fire Truck.
· The wheels needed to be rounder. The kids has to use colour pencils which looked better for that paper compared to crayons. Jing Kai, Yun Xin and Devin were serious doing that.
· Jun Yu tried mending the hose which was made out of thick paper thread. He persistently rolled it just as on a real Fire Truck. I prompted him using some cellophane tape and finally, he succeeded at doing it!
· Zheng Yuan’s straw ladder has gone missing. Thus, he made another ladder. This time, he was more confident. He never gave up at cuttting the straws and pasted them together. Bravo!
· Meanwhile, Foo Soon and team continued constructing the burnt house. So did Jun Hong and team who continuously painted the Fire Truck. I guided them at drawing fire flames to add on to the fire.
· Chun Kit and Qian Joe suggested that we use some clay for the wheels in the future……Hmm…..another great idea!