Good and bad values.

Thursday (05/08/2010)
a) Taking turns.
• When are the other situations that we have to take turns? Why it is necessary? Did Mr. Gru line up too?
• Consequences: injuries, accidents, misunderstanding, quarrelling, no love.
The kids substituted the underlined phrase with their thoughts. Among:
Oh, we take turns,
When we take the chairs,
‘Cause that’s what’s right,
For girls and boys, (x 3)
Oh, we take turns,
When we take the chairs,

- When we wash our hands,
- When we want to speak,
- When we take pencils,
- When we take erasers.
• Immediately, we used a masking tape to paste on the floor. 2 tapes to indicate 2 rows of chairs. We practiced once and it worked quite well. Hopefully, it will be a habit soon.

b) Our growing tree:Recap
• As this theme is quite abstract; Ithought recapping the values we have learnt so far is important.
• First: responsibility. Secondly: caring as in Aunty’s case and Bobby’s case study. After all, we are Rainbow Kids. Thirdly: Discipline – so that we take turns. Fourthly: Good values as in the movie “Despicable Me”.
• We discussed the good values of the movie:
- Telling bedtime stories to show that we care.
- Making a present for someone which we didn’t like doing previously.
- Using the Magic words to show good manners.
- Hugging is okay among friends (depends on culture) but kissing is only among parents and ourselves.
- Sharing such as donating our savings to help.
- Playing together.
- Learning from mistakes.
- Praising people for their good job!
- Never give up!
Bad values or negative values:
- Stealing. Don’t be a villain. (The kids heard this word from the movie and guessed that it meant a bad person).
- Competing and quarrelling.
- Bullying.
- Driving carelessly.
- Not being honest.

c) Drawing Continuation.
• We continued drawing pictures of the movie “Despicable Me”.
• I introduced them to colour a frame around the picture. Overall, these kids have shown improvement at their drawings. Seeing once is definitely not enough…heee! 