Disneyland Castle

Thursday (30/10/2010)

a) Disneyland Castle.
· We invited Foo Soon from next door for 10 minutes to share with us his experience in Disneyland, Hong Kong. We were very glad because he had snapped photos and enlarged them. Among, he snapped photos with Snow White, Barbie Dolls, Cinderella and also Mickey Mouse. He also brought 2 files with Disneyland Castle. Woohhh……was the kids’ exclaimed! It is amazing. Foo Soon said that there were parades, there were performances such as singinging and dancing sessions, the mascots were as tall as teacher. Foo Soon said he also saw the blue ant mascot shaking hands and taking photos with many people. There were shoppings, swimming pools, parks and hotels. He said he was very very happy.
· Zhi Feng also shared his photos of Disneyland with the class. We saw a colourful ferry there and there were a few statues including Dumbo. He also showed us photos of KLIA airport.
· Yun Xin and wee Hong asked why they couldn’t just drive car there. I drew the world map and showed them that there is sea and ocean. Either ship or planes could cross and travel to another country. However, Singapore is linked to Malaysia with a bridge.
· Many people have yet being to Disneyland because of the distance and their free time was my explanation to kids. However, we can learn about it from television, video clip or listen to friends’ sharings.

b) 3D Castle.
· The kids were enthusiastic about the castle and we decided to make a castle for the cartoon characters we discussed yesterday. Cartoons which do not belong to Disney such as Ultraman can always visit his friends there.:)
· As we had been doing a lot of craft work before, I thought let’s try a more challenging task whereby kids have to assemble small parts of 3D puzzles into a big castle. Thus, team work is very important and they also have to be able to read the numbers.
· The kids chose their partners, some I paired them up so that the better one can guide the other partner.
· Each pair was given a board of puzzle and they started pushing the parts out from the big piece. Then, they placed the small parts into a bowl. Only Yun Xin knew how to assemble. The others I had to guide them. Half of the class were able to identify the numbers and and fixed them to the gap. Thus, this would be a good board game for kids at home to challenge their motor skill, mathematical skill and patience.
· About 30 minutes later, I gave the kids some cartoon characters to colour as to add onto our Disneyland Castle. Meanwhile, the kids were called two by two for guidance to assemble the castle. We actually made up almost 85% of the castle. Wow! The kids actually got a lot of guidance from Zhe Qing and Yun Xin. We shall continue with the ending touch up tomorrow.