Our Polar Cub!

Wednesday (09/06/2010)
a) Vocab Revision
· We revised using flashcards.

b) Arctic Animals.
· Which is the biggest bear type out of the 8 species? Polar Bear with Brown Bear being the second. Sun Bear being the smallest. Brown Bear is 210cm and weigh 680kg while Polar Bear is 300cm weighing about 770kg.
· They lived in Arctic but not in Antarctica. We recapped the names. Other animals that lived in Arctic are as follows: white owl, musk ox, weasel, moose, reindeer, wolverine, White Tern, seal, walrus, Arctic hare, whale, orca killer and shark.

c) Diagnosing our Polar Bear craft.
· We giggled at our current gigantic craft bear. “It’s very fat!” exclaimed Wee Hong. Of course, we stuffed so much crumpled newspaper in it. However, to make it stand, we took the “Sports triangle stand” to form its 2 legs. Now, it could stand. However, we couldn’t see the shape of its abdomen just like bear pictures. Thus, I took a few safety pins to pin the bottom of bed sheet and yes…….there’s a shape now. “haaaaa!” Then, we used rubber bands to tie its body to strengthen it from falling down or being out of shape. We stuffed more newspaper on the top part and there we have the head!
· We discussed what is still missing from the big bear. They said eyes, ears, nose, mouth, tail and hands as well as claws.
· Thus: we segregated the tasks and asked them how to make those parts. Among theirs responses were:
- Recycled tape rings for eyes, bottle for hands, straws for claws, cardboard for nose and mouth and Jun Yu said cotton for its tail.
- Chun Kit, Wei Jeen and Devin had to work together to make a hat for the Polar Bear as they had arguments earlier. Here, they learnt to work together and they actually produce quite a cute hat! J
· Many people giggled at our bear as they would look at least 2 times to guess what it is! Yun Xin said, we should paint it white. Currently, it is made of colourful cartoon bed sheet. Wee Hong said it is a Cartoon Bear. However, our actual size bear didn’t turn up to be as planned. Instead, it shrunk to 1.2m because of the newspaper stuff we put in its body. So the class said, it’s a Polar cub. We would decide whether to paint or not when everyone presents after the school holidays.