Board Game: Positive and Negative Factors.

Friday (25/06/2010)

a) A glance
• We took a look at our Board Game and reviewed it. Only a group pasted the numbers correctly with 1 to 5 (from left to right), 6-10 (from right to left) and so on. The kids giggled and decided to change later.
Yun Wen: All the animal pictures would help the players to step forward. What will make them go down?
• Good question. The answer is anything that channels to “endangered animals”.

b) Factors
• What are the factors that channel to “Endangered Animals”? Or even factors that are causing danger to the other animals including our pets.
• We had a discussion and tried recalling what we had been learning for the past 1 week or so. These points would cause the players to step down. They included:
- Open burning……as 2 days ago by some irresponsible residents.
- Hunters – who hunt down animals for fur, horns, claws and also selling their meat illegally.
- Chopping trees – animals are losing their homes.
- Factories – are causing more CO2 to be released. That contributes to Global Warming. Arctic and Antarctica Animals are especially affected.
- Rubbish – including plastic bags are causing animals to suffocate and die.
- Smoking – as the kids say…….true……it releases CO2 and contributes to Global Warming.
• However, there are also some points which could help the players to step forward. As such:
- Recycle – the kids may draw the Recycle symbol or the 3 Recycling Bins
- Planting more trees.
- Eat more vegetables.
- Share with friends about Endangered Animals such as Posters.
• Then, each kid was given a yellow sticker to draw their pictures. Then, they pasted onto their table-sized Board Game. I guided them with the phrase “Go Up to…..” and “Go down to…..” The 6-year-old kids were really helpful at guiding their team members.  Most kids could write independently, only a small handful needed my help.

c) Hand-made dice.
• We continued with making our dices. I gave each kid a number of stickers and the colours were based on their group colour. There were green, yellow, orange and pink. Example: First kid pasted a sticker as “number 1”, second kid pasted 2 stickers as “number 2” and etc. They were very serious at it and did them independently while patiently waiting for their turns. We shall play the game next week.