New Theme: Submarine Explorers

Tuesday (28/02/2011)

a) Underwater world creatures.
Teacher: What are the animals you can think of?
Chun Kit: Giant octopus.Zheng Yuan: whale. Yun Xin: Starfish. Xing Tong: Dolphins.
Jun Yu: Swordfish. Tzen Yu: Cockles. Shawn: Tiger fish. Wee Xiang: Eel……..
 And the list goes on. While thinking about the names, the kids looked around fish charts and flash cards for ideas.

b) Questions, questions, questions?
 As we were brainstorming, kids started asking questions?
Class: Who is stronger? Shark or octopus? Can starfish live without water? What do Clown Fish eat? What does a whale eat? …….among others. I asked the kids to keep looking for the answers from books or asking their family members.
Teacher: Which is deeper? KLCC or ocean?

c) Ideas.
Teacher: What are we going to learn?
Chun Kit: We can make a big ship with octopus.
Kwong Yong: We can make masks.
Teacher: What can we do with our class first?
Zhe Qing: Decorate just like what we did with “Care-A-Lot” topic.
 The class started giggling and making noises. They were so excited.
Teacher: What shall we name our theme?
Qian Joe: Underwater World.
Rei: Row, row, row your boat.
Teacher: Hmmm……it is safe to row your boat I the ocean?
Jun Yu: Get a ship.
Teacher: Is there anything safer than a ship.
Zheng Yuan: Sub……sub…..
Teacher: Great idea….submarine!
* Thus, the kids decided that we can put everything in our submarine to explore the ocean. Thus, after brainstorming titles and voting; we chose “Submarine explorers”!