Friday (16/07/2010)

The Care Bears Family.

a) The Rainbow Land
We recapped on yesterday’s rainbow story of Jack and Susan. Their dreams had brought them to a Rainbow Land. I asked the kids to guess things that they might find there. Among: pots of gold, stars, cars, teachers, flowers, mothers, kids, playgrounds etc. With this guess in mind, I gave them another task. I asked them to remember what they see when we watch the cartoon later.

b) The Care Bears Movie 2.
l The kids loved this cartoon a lot. Chun Kit: “There’s love everywhere! Wow!”.
Jun Yu: “How do they help people?”
l Generally, the little cubs were adopted by 2 good adult animals. One being a bear, the other being a horse. They are called Noble Heart and True Heart. They are all so loving with good values that they were given the magical power by the Huge star. In the Care-A-Lot World or the kids called the “Rainbow Land”, there were lots of beautiful flowers and plants. Rainbows were everywhere. Cars are made of clouds…wow! There is a Heart Metre that chimes when the Earth people need help.
l Ther were so many bears with different magical power indicated by different pictures on their chest. In one situation, the Care Bears saw how 2 kids scribbled the walls. They shone their magic to these kids and they immediately realized their mistakes. LOVE and CARE can really make a great difference!
l Of course, there’s “No Heart” who disliked the Care Bears. He would think of ways to capture them. No Heart represents the evil thoughts within us while Care Bears represent the good thoughts within us. J We shall continue with the movie…..

c) Our new theme!
l Yun Xin: Does that mean that we have finished lessons on “Animal Kingdom”? Exactly! We are into the world of love and care. I asked the kids to think of a suitable title and discuss it on Monday.
l Teacher: Why do you think we watch the Crae Bears?
l Shi Jie: We want to be good children.
l How can we be good children?
l Various answers: Love our families, love our friends and etc. Most importantly, love ourselves first. We discussed some good values: manners, caring, disciplne and sharing. Yun Wen said we can visit the Orphanage. Jun Hong said he hoped to adopt a little brother. Foo Soon asked if we could learn about Sports Car. I said maybe we can make some toys including Sports car for the orphans. Recently, the kids love to dance led by Wee Hong when listening to our Animal Thematic songs. Maybe our project could be a charity or performance. Wow…..sounds lots of fun! :)