Hand Shadow Play

Wednesday (20/10/2010)

a) I am a storyteller.
On Monday, I asked the kids to think of their stories involving the butterfly and other characters. Only 3 took the initiative. They were Yun Xin, Zheng Yuan and Chun Kit. Yun Xin \shared about butterfly being friend witrh Doraemon. She really tried speaking English the whole lesson. Zheng Yuan told us a story about the hungry butterfly who ate a lot of food. Then, I added the character of a hungry bird which wanted to eat the butterfly and later saved by Tinkerbell. Chun Kit told us his story about his caterpillar and Peter Pan.
The kids took turn to be the emcee. They enjoyed it. The other kids were inspired to tell their own story from the spot. For being initiative, I rewarded everyone. However, for the 3 most initiative kids, they were awarded with jelly.

b) Hand Shadow.
I turned off the lights and we talked a little about the shadow. With light anywhere, we can see shadows. There are a few ways to play with shadow. Shadow theatre, hand shadow and body shadow. Thus, we started practising hand shadow.
First, I taught them the bird shadow. Then, the crocodile shadow. Wee Hong came to teach us the peacock. Zhi Feng taught us the snake. Qian Joe taught us the cat.

c) Yun Xin’s shadow book.
We looked through at Yun Xin’s book. Then, we played a game called, “Please guess me. Who am I?”
The kids took turn to come to me and choose a shadow pattern. Then they stood beside the lamp behind the white cloth and played with their hands. The other kids guessed.
Among: Jun Yu as an owl, Chia Yen as a woodpecker, Kwong Yong as an eagle, Shawn as a dinosaur. The other shadow figures were a rabbit, a peacock, a snake and an elephant.