Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

Wednesday (08/12/2010)

a) Vocab recognition
• We recapped words learnt: chest, pirate, ship, princess, sword, castle, peacock, eagle, dance, sing, performance, puppet, etc.

b) Shawn’s storybook: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.
• This classic story tells how a poor woodcutter found gold in the thieves’ secret cave. He took some and became rich ( we discussed that this is wrong doing). The woodcutter became rich. His wife wore a beautiful ecklace and the head thief saw it. He and his thieves planned to rob them. That night, the head thief pretended being lost and asked for accommodation. The kid woodcutter allowed and treated him dinner too. Meanwhile, the other thieves hid in the kitchen’s big jars. The maid realized this and she quickly pured hot oil into each big jar. They screamed and died. The head chief was the caught. The King heard about this and wanted to meet the brave ad clever maid. He made her his daughter as the King had no child.
Moral: We have to think wisely before acting. We have to be courageous when in trouble. When we do bad things, the negative impact would come back on us just like Ali baba who stole the money and was later being robbed.
c) The Practice.
• We talked about the rules during the performance especially to remind those who like having fun during practice.
• Today, I left them independently and guided very little. I guided on Peter Pan’s dance, the battle, the crocodile ad octopus dance. Lastly, I reminded the kids to put their props into a box by the side properly before performing the dance, “Following The Leader”.