Height and weight.

Friday (11/06/2010)

a) Storybook: Brown bear, brown bear; what do you see?
• I recapped this book so that the kids could understand the colours better. In fact, they could now repeat the sentences without looking at the storybook. 

b) Game: Thundersnow, what will you blow?
• With guidance, the kids started the game feeling awkwardly because of the English vocabulary. However, I guided each forfeited kid (the standing one among the other sitting kids); with simple English instructions. Example: Blow children that wear blue clothes. Blow children that have 2 legs. Blow children that have hair. Blow children that have are sitting on the yellow chairs and etc. After 10 minutes, they started thinking on their own. In fact, Yun Xin and Chun Kit volunteered to guide. I allowed. It was really fun!

c) My height and weight.
• We recapped on the height and weight of Brown and Polar Bear. Then, each kid was given a worksheet. Meanwhile, we learnt to read the poster record of each kid’s height and weight measured a few days ago. Then, they learnt to write onto the worksheet. Finally, they have to draw themselves creatively. Example:
I am Xing Tong. I am 102cm tall. I weigh 16kg.

d) Worksheet: Numbers.
• As we learnt height and weight, we see a lot of figures. Thus, I wrote down 1 until 30 for the kids. We read together and counted together. Then, they had to link the dotted numbers so as to get a “bat” picture. Then, they coloured it.

e) Encyclopedia: Polar Bear
• I translated this Chinese version into English as it really has good and beautiful pictures. We learnt:
- Polar Bears usually have 2 cubs and they are born during their mother’s hibernation in a solid den. They feed on her milk. Mother bear will sometimes lick them and cuddle them as they have very thin fur. In Spring, they climb to the snow surface for the first time and mother bear really protects them well. Mother bear has good smelling sense. When she smells any baby seals under the frozen ice surface, she uses her powerful paws to break the ice and kill the baby seals. She then feeds her cubs. Sometimes, she will look for breathing holes at the ice surface. Adult seals swim here to get the Oxygen. However, mother bear will kill them for food. A Polar Bear can feed 70kg of food in her stomach. They don’t drink water. Sometimes, they eat plants and also fruits if they can’t find food. They have to stay strong in this cold Arctic. The mother will take care of the cubs for 2 years. Thus, they would hibernate together in a den for the second time. When they see other family Polar Bear, they would rub their noses as respects. They don’t harm one another just like humans!