Recycling The Newspaper
Today, we learnt the value of “care” and “Thank You”. We learnt that people get very special when they are able to share happiness everywhere. Thus, a cook is not just a cook. This applies to all walks of profession.
a) The Heart Book.
• Every Monday, the kids would bring home their Heart Book. After parents’ signature, the kids have to return back t the class to continue collecting points. It will show the points collected by the kids for different weeks. Comments are written down on each page. Suggestions are also given to encourage the kids to improve. Again, I stress on improvement rather than the highest points. Parents should sign after reading and the signature shows that kids are responsible enough to share with their parents about their work.
• After giving their Heart Books, we picked draws to change roles of duties.
b) Our Beloved Aunty, the cook.
• Last Friday, I have briefly told the kids about aunty’s retirement which is this coming Friday. The kids suggested making a love for her. As we had so much leftover crumpled newspaper (previously used to make the Giant Polar Bear), we shall make the love from the newspaper. Again, Jing Kai stressed that we should recycle wisely!
Teacher: Why are we making a gift for her?
Qian Joe: Because she fell off the motorbike.
Teacher: Yes! But she is retiring for good and we won’t see her anymore! What do you want to tell her?
Class: thank you!
Teacher: Why does she work here even though she is about 63?
Jun Hong: For money!
Teacher: Everyone works for money but sometimes love is even more important. Do you know that she cares for all the kids and teachers here like her own children?
• Hmm…..aunty’s task: preparing the food as hygiene as possible, cook our lunch, wash the dishes, prepare our drinks and food for teabreak, keep the kitchen clean. She also likes sharing stuffs, food and experience with the teachers. She even encourages kids to finish their meals especially those who dislikes vegetables……..haaa. Thus, she is very important and special.
c) Recycling the newspaper.
• The paper was already soaked last week to make it soft.
• Today, the kids queued in 4 groups and scooped the bits of damp newspaper and squeezed them. Then, they were torn into smaller pieces. Next, they were blended and every kid was enthusiastic as how the bits turned out to be. So soapy that Yun we said it looked like “vomit”….haaaa…..but we could hardly see anymore letters.
• Then, we squeezed the blended paper so as to make them drier.
d) The Heart Shape.
• I cut a big box and took a side of the paper box. The kids suggested the size of the love. I sketched. Then, I brought some home-made starchy gum. Chun Kit asked if I could showed them how to make in the future.
• The kids queued into 2 lines. They took turns to scoop the blended newspaper and applied with glue before pasting onto the paper box board. The kids thought it was disgusting but once they put their hand at work, they requested to do more……From….eeeeee….it changed to …..wahhh! Even Zheng Yuan was brave enough to try.
e) The extras.
• We had some more blended newspaper. Qian Joe asked if they can make a small shape for themselves. They said they wanted to hang at home. I allowed them to draw any shape but it has to be big. We shall continue our craft work tomorrow.
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