The “Tiger Puppet Model”

Wednesday (03/02/2010)
a) Fire station news, the binding of letter card
b) Explanation
c) Team work: Inventors

a) Great News!
· Yes….! We are going to the Fire Station next Thursday. We counted the number of days together. That will be anther 7 days or 1 week. Hooray! We shall go with Yue Lao Shi’s class.
· Then, I showed them their drawings for Mrs. Khoo, our invited chef for next Monday. They just love them as Zheng Yuan had added a straw ladder to the cover!

b) Explanation.
· Today, we focused at making our charity items, the “Tiger Puppet Model”. I asked and explained the making process.
· Parts involved: the head (with nose, eyes, stripes and ears – all made from newspaper), the body ( using cloth – to add glitterings creatively), the legs (using newspaper and straws), the holder (using cardboard – with the “chun” word”) and the strings.
· They were divided into four groups with a 6-year old in each group as my Assistant. Each kid chose the part they wanted to make.

c) Team work: Inventors.
· Most kids were too excited to crumple the newspaper and wrap them with masking tape without seeing how I did it. I had to show them in small groups a few times. Paste the masking tape on the table first and then wrap around the nespaper ball.Zheng Yuan, Xing Tong, Yun Xin were quite good while Chun Kit neede prompting. Shi Jie, Foo Soon, Jing Kai and Jun Hong assisted the other kids….whic was very helpful! J
· Devin, Jun Yu, Zhe Qing assisted at decorating cloth. They had to think creatively. They pasted the glitterings on the cloth so that tomorrow I can call them individually to stick them using glue gun. Chun Kit was curious about the glue gun…haaa! Yan Shan, Wei Hong and also Wei Jun cut the Chinese word, “chun”. The other kids made the legs with nespaper and straws.
· Teacher: Why must we crumple the newspaper tightly?
· Shi Jie: So that it will not open easily.
· Teacher: Why must we wrap with masking tape?
· Foo Soon: So that they can last long.
· Teacher: Good….! Besides that, we will get nice paint when we paint on the masking tape tomorrow rather than painting on the newspaper.
· The kids did quite well. Most importantly, most of them were determined. Prompting was needed for Yan Shan and Wei Jun. We shall continue today.