Peter Pan’s suit.

Friday (29/10/2010)

a) Tzu Chi
 The Buddhist Tzu Chi Association came to collect the bamboo coin containers given to kids last March. Those coins were poured into a beautiful pot and it eventually overflew when I being the last candidate, poured it in. The kids were overwhelmed. In fact, Tzu Chi showed us a short documentary about poor kids in China urban. They sometimes write with pencil lead. And, they only have a pencil throughout the entire yea. Their lunch? Only a slice of bread to be shared among 3 siblings. They only drank hot water sharing from a small cup. They walked to school some as far as from Klang to KL. Would we do that in Malaysia? The kids were extremely quiet while watching the film and suddenly, we felt extremely blessed to be in Malaysia with our loved ones. Thank you mum and dad.
 Then, the Red Bean class performed a “Recycling” Hokkien song which they would perform on concert day. They were so good and I took them as a good example when explaining the performance rules to my class.

b) Peter Pan’s suit.
Teacher: How can we make Peter’s suit?
Zhi Feng: We can sew.
Kwoong Yong: We can pick leaves from the garden and paste on the t-shirt.
 We followed Kwong Yong’s idea and so marched to the garden to pick and plucked some leaves. Looking around the school compound, we only saw pandan leaves and the Jackfruit leaves to be plucked. However, we were careful not to injure the tree and plant.
 In the class, I showed the kids how we could make a t-shirt out of newspaper. We wanted to compare if the newspaper t-shirt will look better than a green t-shirt. Chun Kit said he would bring his green pants on Monday and we shall decide by then.
 The kids were given double sided tape to paste onto the leaves and then onto the newspaper shirt. It was a great challenge for them to peel off the double sided tape cover but most of them managed.

c) Our dance.
 We continued with our dance, “Following The Leader”. This time, the kids did from the top until the turning around part. From here the 2 rows have to march in different directions and form a V-shape pattern. Then, they hopped and danced 3 different actions. Finally, they skipped in pairs to the centre of the stage and just at the end of the song, they posed differently as in photography session. We still need to practise for consistent rhythm.