Body Painting

Thursday (01/12/2010)

a) Body Painting
• Part of a performance includes make-up. Instead of make-up, the school provided us with Body Painting, a safe product by Luna. There were blue, green, yellow and red colour. First, I painted the kids’ body which could be their face, arms or even legs. They could choose to imagine they are someone and I shall make-up them as in their imagination. Some chose to be their drama character such as Snow White and pirates. Some preferred to be animals such as bears and snakes. Some preferred plants. Then, the kids chose 2 of their favourite colours and painted themselves. We took photos and then washed up ourselves. It was enjoyable.

b) Story-telling: Goldilocks and the three bears.
• I read Jun Yu’s storybook the class. It was an interesting story with good moral values. It was an adventure of how Goldilocks went into a stranger’s home in the forest. She ate the baby bear’s porridge, tried on all chairs and broke baby bear’s chair and finally slept on it’s bed again! When they came back, the bears were angry, puzzled and amazed to find Goldilocks in baby bear’s home. Goldilocks jumped to her feet , ran as fast as possible and never came back.
• The class discussed about values learnt. We shouldn’t touch peoples’ belongings without permission. We shouldn’t wander alone in the dangerous forest or anywhere without our family knowledge.

c) The Practice.
• Each day, it gets more challenging to practise as some kids go off early, some were absent, some went for holiday. However, I believe that regular practice with the kids would enforce their movements. I advised them to practise at home. A few kids always do that included Xing Tong, Yu Xuan and Wee Hong. In fact today, the kids volunteered to relieve the absentees’ places temporary. Example: Zhi Feng the Superman was also Captain Hook. Xing Tong the Cinderella was also TikerBell. They were good.