Story-telling

Monday (04/10/2010)

a) Story-telling.
* Jun Yu gave me a book and told me that he would like to tell us a story. I was very proud of his effort. The title was "In The Garden". Everyone sat down quietly while listening to his rather soft voice. :)
* he read very well with little prompting from me. At first round, we listened to his reading. At second reading, the kids read after me. Then, I started sketching a garden with different insects on the board. Kids were so excited that they started talking about each insect.

b) "In The Garden".
* Caterpillars are found on leaves. They eat lots of leaves.
Qian Joe: Then they would change into a cocoon.
Xing Tong: Then, into a butterfly.
*Ants are found on the ground.
* They have six legs.
Jun Yu: The beetles are so big, how can ants carry them?
Teacher: Ants are very co-operative, they travel in a troupe of army.
- Ants eat just about anything.
* Worms are found in the ground.
Zheng Yuan: Worms make the plants grow more healthily.
- The holes made will allow Oxygen to flow in and gardeners need not worry to continue digging.
Shawn: Worms are scary.
- Actually, worms eat up carcass or dead bodies and add fertilizer into the soil. Otherwise, the Earth will be filled with carcasses......oh gosh!! Thank you, worms!
* Grasshoppers are found on the grass.
- They can hop far and fly too. There are big and small ones.
* Bees are found in a hive.
Jun Yu: The big ones are wasps.
Chun Kit: Be careful, they can sting people.
Yun Xin: We must see the doctor immediately.
- When bees sting us, they will also die because they can part with their sting at the abdomen. People at least could quickly seek a doctor’s treatment.
* Spiders are found on a web.
Shawn: Are spiders sticky?
- No, they aren’t. However, their webs are sticky as to trap their prey as food. Some insects fly and get caught there. Example: flies, moths, cockroaches. Spiders also catch their preys themselves. Some spiders are poisonous.
* Lots of insects are found in the garden.

c) Body Movement.
l The kids chose the characters they wanted to be. Among: Xing Tong as a flower, Yee Xuan as a caterpillar, Yun Xin and Yee Xuan as the ant, Qian Joe as a donut, Kwong Yong and Shawn as bees while Zhi Feng as a tree. Jun Yu, Zheng Yuan, Soon Yu, Xiang Wei as spiders and the rest pretended to be a big house.
l Qian Joe was creative as he unfolded himself as a donut. Wee Hong as the worm and Shawn as the rabbit. J The kids were enthusiastic.
l Later, we performed as a class playing the “freeze” game. This is to allow the kids having the idea of various movements. Example: Be a butterfly……they will fly and “freeze”! Be a spider……they will crawl and “freeze”!

d) Little Disneyland Castle.
l The kids chose their duties. Qian Joe and Xing Tong wanted to make a fence surrounding the castle. Theothers wanted to cut their coloured pictures and placed as a parade within the castle. Chia Yen was engrossed to make ice-cream. Kwong Yong led the kids to make Disneyland flags. Shawn laughed happily seeing their flags saying it looked like “MERDEKA”. Haaa……in a way, yes!